Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was born on 29 October 1938, in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, amongst the descendants of original colonists of Liberia. These descendants are known in Liberia as Americo-Liberians. Sirleaf’s father Jahmale Carney Johnson became the first Liberian from an indigenous ethnic group to sit in the country’s national legislature. Sirleaf studied economics and accounts from 1948 to …

Chen Guangcheng born on November 12, 1971. He is a blind activist in the People’s Republic of China at the forefront of a growing civil rights movement who drew international attention to human rights issues in rural areas. He was placed under house arrest from September 2005 to March 2006 after talking to Time magazine about the forced abortion cases …

Bill Clinton — William Jefferson “Bill” Clinton was born on August 19, 1946. He was the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the Cold War, and was the first baby boomer president. His wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is currently the United States …

Angelina Jolie (Angelina Jolie Voight) was born in Los Angeles, California, on June 4, 1975. She is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is an American actress. She was eleven years old, When Jolie decided She wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in …

P-51D Mustang — The North American Aviation P-51 Mustang was an American long range, single seat fighter and fighter bomber used during World War II, the Korean War and in several other conflicts. During World War II Mustang pilots claimed 4,950 enemy aircraft shot down, second only to the Grumman F6F Hellcat. It was conceived, designed and built by North …

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 — The Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 was a jet fighter developed for the USSR by Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich. The MiG-15 was one of the first successful swept wing jet fighters, and it achieved fame in the skies over Korea, where early in the war, it outclassed all straight-winged enemy fighters in daylight. The MiG-15 also served as the …

Alphabetical Listing of US Government Acronyms AAPC — Accounting And Auditing Policy Committee ABMC — American Battle Monuments Commission ACC — Air Combat Command ACDA — United States Arms Control And Disarmament Agency ACF — Administration For Children And Families ACHP — Advisory Council On Historic Preservation ACQWEB — Office of The Under Secretary of Defense For Acquisition And Technology …

Alphabetical Listing of Uncategorized Acronyms 2.5G — Second-and-a-half-generation Mobile Telephone System 2D — Two 2G — Second 3D — Three 3G — Third 3I — Investors In Industry (venture Capitalists) 3M — Minnesota Mining And Manufacturing Company 4D — Four-dimensional (usually Three Spatial Plus One Temporal Dimension 4G — Fourth-generation Mobile Telephone System 4GL — Fourth-generation Programming Language 4WD — …

Alphabetical Listing of Organizations Acronyms ADB — Asian Development Bank AECL — Atomic Energy of Canada Limited APEC — Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation ASEAN — Association of Southeast Asian Nations CAPP — Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers CCFM — Canadian Council of Forest Ministers CCICED — China Council For International Cooperation On Environment And Development CCME — Canadian Council of …

Alphabetical Listing of Human Genome Acronyms AAAI — American Association ForArtificial Intelligence AAAS — American Association For The Advancement of Science AACC — American Association For Clinical Chemistry AACR — American Association For Cancer Research AAI — American Association of Immunologists AAIP — American Association of Investigative Pathologists AANP — American Association of Neuropathologists AAP — Association of American Physicians …