Ted Koppel. Early life and education[edit] Koppel, an only child, was born in Nelson, Lancashire, UK, after his German Jewish parents fled Germany due to the rise of Adolf Hitler and Nazism.[2] In 1953, when he was 13, the family immigrated to the United States. His mother, Alice, was a singer and pianist, and his father, Edwin, was a tire factory owner.[3] He graduated from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Science Degree and from Stanford University with a Master of Arts Degree in Mass Communications Research and Political Science.[4] In 1987, he received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Duke University.[5] In 2007, the University of Southern California awarded Koppel an honorary Doctor of Laws degree.[6] Koppel returns to Syracuse University regularly as a guest speaker.
He was a member of the student-run WAER and keeps in touch with the student media at Syracuse.[7] He is a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.[8] Career[edit] Early career[edit] Accusations of bias[edit] Asra Nomani. Asra Quratulain Nomani (born 1965) is an Indian-American journalist, author, lecturer and feminist, known as an activist involved in the Muslim reform and Islamic feminist movements. She teaches journalism at Georgetown University and is co-director of the Pearl Project,[1][2] a faculty-student, investigative-reporting project into the kidnapping and murder of her former colleague, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. The project was published by the Center for Public Integrity.[3] Nomani is the author of two books, Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman's Struggle for the Soul of Islam and Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love.
She is also the author of numerous articles, including "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Bedroom", the "Islamic Bill of Rights for Women in the Mosque", and "99 Precepts for Opening Hearts, Minds and Doors in the Muslim World". Early life[edit] Career[edit] Nomani is the founder and creator of the Muslim Women's Freedom Tour. Influence[edit] Dalton Trumbo. American screenwriter and novelist Early life[edit] For nine years after his father died, Trumbo worked the night shift wrapping bread at a Los Angeles bakery, and attended the University of California, Los Angeles (1926) and the University of Southern California (1928–1930).[14] During this time, he wrote movie reviews, 88 short stories, and six novels, all of which were rejected for publication.[15] Career[edit] Early career[edit] Trumbo started working in movies in 1937 but continued writing prose.
His anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun won one of the early National Book Awards: the Most Original Book of 1939.[18] It was inspired by an article Trumbo had read several years earlier: an account of a hospital visit by the Prince of Wales to a Canadian soldier who had lost all his limbs in World War I.[19] Political advocacy and blacklisting[edit] Trumbo mugshot, Ashland penitentiary William R. Later career[edit] Personal life[edit] Death and legacy[edit] Works[edit] Selected film works Non-fiction. Francis Collins. Francis Sellers Collins (born April 14, 1950) is an American physician-geneticist noted for his discoveries of disease genes and his leadership of the Human Genome Project. He is director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.
Before being appointed director of the NIH, Collins led the Human Genome Project and other genomics research initiatives as director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), one of the 27 institutes and centers at NIH. Before joining NHGRI, he earned a reputation as a gene hunter at the University of Michigan. He has been elected to the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, and has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Science. Collins also has written a number of books on science, medicine, and religion, including the New York Times bestseller, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
Early years[edit] Genetics research[edit] Genomics[edit] Music[edit] Ta-Nehisi Coates. Ta-Nehisi Paul Coates[1] (/ˌtɑːnəˈhɑːsi ˈkoʊts/ TAH-nə-HAH-see KOHTS;[2] born September 30, 1975)[3] is an American author, journalist, comic book writer, and educator. Coates gained a wide readership during his time as national correspondent at The Atlantic, where he wrote about cultural, social and political issues, particularly regarding African Americans and white supremacy.[4] Early life[edit] Coates' father had seven children, five boys and two girls, by four women.
Coates' father's first wife had three children, Coates' mother had two boys, and the other two women each had a child. The children were raised together in a close-knit family; most lived with their mothers and at times lived with their father. Coates said he lived with his father the whole time.[2][14] In Coates' family, he said that the important overarching focus was on rearing children with values based on family, respect for elders and being a contribution to your community.
Career[edit] Journalism[edit] Author[edit] Alfred W. Crosby. Alfred W. Crosby (/ˈkrɔːzbiˌ ˈkrɑːz-/; born January 15, 1931, Boston, Massachusetts) is a Professor Emeritus of History, Geography, and American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of such books as The Columbian Exchange (1972) and Ecological Imperialism (1986). In these works, he provides biological and geographical explanations for why Europeans were able to succeed with relative ease in what he refers to as the Neo-Europes of Australasia, North America, and southern South America.
Career[edit] Books[edit] Recognizing the majority of modern-day wealth is located in Europe and the Neo-Europes, Crosby set out to investigate what historical causes are behind the disparity. Reference to his works is made by Indian scholar Ramachandra Guha in his publication(s). In his 1972 he created the term Columbian Exchange in his book of the same name.
Academic[edit] Books[edit] America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleon: American Trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1793-1812. Akon Lighting Africa | Solar power initiative. Kota Rani. Kota Rani was the last Hindu ruler of Kashmir in Medieval India, ruling until 1339. She was the daughter of Ramachandra. Ramachandra had appointed an administrator Rinchan, a Ladakhi. Rinchan became ambitious. He sent a force in the fort in the guise of merchants, who took Ramachandra's men by surprise.[1] Ramachandra was killed and his family was taken prisoners. To earn local support, Rinchan appointed Rawanchandra, the son of Ramachandra appointed as administrator of Lar and Ladakh, and married his sister Kota Rani. He employed Shah Mir as a trusted courtier, who had entered Kashmir earlier and had been given an appointment in the government. Rinchan's rule was hard and stern.
Kota Rani was first appointed as a regent for Rinchan's young son. Kota Rani had two sons. Shah Mir pretended to be sick, and when Bhatta Bhikshana visited him, Shah Mir jumped out of his bed and killed him.[2] He asked Kota Rani to marry him, but she declined. It is not known what happened to her sons.
Leaders. Killers. Hideo Kojima. Hideo Kojima (小島 秀夫 , Kojima Hideo? , born August 24, 1963) is a Japanese game director, writer, producer and designer originally employed at Konami. He is the director of Kojima Productions[2] and was promoted to Vice President of Konami Digital Entertainment in early 2011.[1] His previous positions include being vice president of Konami Computer Entertainment Japan.[3] He is the creator, director and writer of a number of successful video games, including the Metal Gear series of stealth games and the adventure games Snatcher and Policenauts, and he also produced series such as Zone of the Enders, Boktai and Castlevania: Lords of Shadow.
Kojima is consistently named by fans and industry experts alike as being one of the most influential and innovative video game directors and writers in the industry. Biography[edit] Early life[edit] Born in Tokyo, Japan in 1963[3] Kojima moved to western Japan at the age of three. Career[edit] 1980s[edit] 1990s[edit] 2000s[edit] Joseph Smith. Joseph Smith, Jr. (December 23, 1805 – June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader who founded the Latter Day Saint movement, the predominant branch of which is Mormonism. At age twenty-four, Smith published the Book of Mormon, and by the time of his death fourteen years later, he had attracted tens of thousands of followers, established cities and temples, and founded a religion and a religious culture that continues to the present day. Life[edit] Early years (1805–27)[edit] During the Second Great Awakening, the region was a hotbed of religious enthusiasm. While boarding at the Hale house in Harmony, Pennsylvania, Smith met and began courting Emma Hale.
On September 22, 1827, Smith made his last annual visit to the hill, taking Emma with him.[24] This time, he said he retrieved the plates and put them in a locked chest. Founding a church (1827–30)[edit] In February 1828, Martin Harris arrived to assist Smith, transcribing as Smith dictated. Life in Ohio (1831–38)[edit]