Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, who holds a legendary status in Indian Classical music was born in Gadag (Karnataka) on 14 February 1922. His unique style and mastery over ragas has made him un parallel to any other vocalist in the country. A conservative schoolmaster’s son, Bhimsen Joshi had a passion for music even from his early childhood. The little boy deeply …

Ayn Rand was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, on February 2, 1905. At age six she taught herself to read and two years later discovered her first fictional hero in a French magazine for children, thus capturing the heroic vision which sustained her throughout her life. At the age of nine, she decided to make fiction writing her career. Thoroughly …

Ayman al-Zawahiri — Ayman Muhammad Rabaie al-Zawahiri, Ayman al-Zawahiri is usually spelled Zawahiri. Al-Zawahiri has also gone under the names of Abu Muhammad, Abu Fatima, Muhammad Ibrahim, Abu Abdallah, Abu al-Mu’iz, The Doctor, The Teacher, Nur, Ustaz, Abu Mohammed Nur al-Deen, Abdel Muaz (Abdel Moez, Abdel Muez). Ayman al-Zawahiri was born on June 19, 1951 to a prominent upper middle …

Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini Biography Born — 24 September 1902 in Khomein, Iran 1964-78 — Is exiled to Iraq for criticizing the Shah and sparking riots, evicted by Saddam Hussain, he moves to Paris suburb. 1979 — Returns to Tehran, is acclaimed as leader of Iran’s revolution 1979-81 — His followers hold fifty-two Americans captive in the U.S. embassy in Tehran 1989 — In February, he demands the death of Salman …

Arun Sarin (born: October 21, 1954) Chief Executive Officer of the British based Global Mobile Telecommunications Company Vodafone Group Plc. He is one of the few Indians to head a global multi national company. Arun Sarin was born on October 21, 1954 at Panchmari, Madya Pradesh. His father was an army officer and Arun Sarin did his schooling from military boarding …

Archbishop Peter Akinola was born on 27 January 1944 to a Yoruba family in Abeokuta in southwestern Nigeria. Akinola was four years old when his father died, and he was sent to live with an uncle. He attended school between ages 10 and 16, when he left school to learn a trade. After an apprenticeship in Lagos, Akinola became a …

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 …

Angela Merkel was born Angela Dorothea Kasner in Hamburg on 17 July 1954, the daughter of Horst Kasner, a Lutheran pastor, and his wife, Herlind, a teacher of English and Latin. Her mother was once a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany. She has a brother, Marcus and a sister, Irene. Merkel was educated in Templin and at …

Alabama, one of the southern states of the United States, is largely rectangular in shape and is landlocked except for a short coastline along the Gulf of Mexico. It is bordered by Tennessee on the north, by Georgia on the east, by the Florida panhandle on the south, and by Mississippi on the west. The state was visited by Spaniards …

Shallot — The term Shallot is used to describe two different Allium species of plant. The French grey shallot or griselle, which has been considered to be the “true shallot” by many, is Allium oschaninii, a species that grows wild from Central to Southwest Asia. Other varieties of shallot are Allium cepa var. aggregatum (multiplier onions), also known as A. …