Jared Leto
(1971-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Leto
Early life and education
Jared Joseph Leto was born December 26, 1971, in Bossier City, Louisiana. His
parents divorced when he was a child, leaving him in the care of his mother,
Constance.[1] This separation led to a traveling life with young Jared moving with
his family – mother Constance Leto, older brother Shannon Leto and
grandfather – from his native Louisiana to different cities in Colorado, Virginia,
Wyoming, and Haiti.[2] "My mom's father was in the Air Force," Leto explained,
"so moving around a lot was a normal way of life."[3] His father remarried and
died soon after.[1] Leto has two younger half-brothers from his father's second
marriage. Leto wanted to help his family and became a dishwasher at small
snack-bar at 12, and he was a doorman at 16.[4] Constance Leto always
encouraged children’s craving for art.[3] "I grew up in environment of actors,
musicians, photographers, artists and different theatrical persons," he stated in
an interview with Kerrang!; "Through this atmosphere there were no any clear
boundaries and straight lines. We were proclaiming a freedom of creation and
self-expression."[5] His first musical instrument was a broken-down piano and he
grew up singing classic rock, from Pink Floyd to Led Zeppelin.[6]
After dropping out briefly in the 10th grade, Leto decided to return and focus
on his education at the private Flint Hill School in Oakton, Virginia, but
graduated from Emerson Preparatory School in Washington, D.C., in 1989.[1]
When he finished school, Leto enrolled at Philadelphia's University of the Arts
and majored in painting.[1] However, after developing an interest in acting, he
transferred to New York City's School of Visual Arts, where he majored in
filmmaking.[1] While he was a student there, he wrote and starred in his own
short film, Crying Joy.[2]
David Beckham
(1975-)
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Beckham
David Robert Joseph Beckham, OBE[2] (born 2 May 1975)[3] is an English
footballer who plays midfield for Los Angeles Galaxy in Major League Soccer,[4]
having previously played for Manchester United, Preston North End, Real
Madrid, and A.C. Milan, as well as the England national team, for whom he holds
the all-time appearance record for an outfield player.[5]
Beckham's career began when he signed a professional contract with
Manchester United, making his first-team debut in 1992 aged 17.[6] During his
time there, United won the Premier League title six times, the FA Cup twice, and
the UEFA Champions League in 1999.[6] He left Manchester United to sign for
Real Madrid in 2003, where he remained for four seasons,[7] clinching the La Liga
championship in his final season with the club.[8] In January 2007, it was
announced that Beckham would leave Real Madrid for the Major League Soccer
club Los Angeles Galaxy,[9] signing a five-year contract with them on 1 July 2007.
While a Galaxy player, he spent two loan spells in Italy with Milan in 2009 and
2010.
In international football, Beckham made his England debut on 1 September 1996,
at the age of 21. He was made captain from 15 November 2000[10] until the 2006
FIFA World Cup finals,[11] during which he played 58 times. He earned a much-
publicised hundredth cap against France on 26 March 2008,[12] and became the
all-time outfield player appearance record holder on 28 March 2009 when he
surpassed Bobby Moore's total of 108 caps.[5] With 115 career appearances to
date he has stated that he does not intend to retire from international football,
having missed the 2010 World Cup through injury and not featuring in England
manager Fabio Capello's post-World Cup plans.[13]
Beckham has twice been runner-up for FIFA World Player of the Year[6] and in
2004 was the world's highest-paid footballer when taking into account salary
and advertising deals.[14] Beckham was the first British footballer to play 100
Champions League matches.[6] He is third in the Premier League's all time time
assist provider chart, with 152 assists in 265 appearances.[15] He was Google's
most searched of all sports topics in both 2003 and 2004.[16] With such global
recognition he has become an elite advertising brand and a top fashion icon.[17][18]
When joining the MLS in 2007 he was given the highest player salary in the
league's history, with his playing contract with the Galaxy over the next three
years being worth US$6.5m per year.[19][20][21][22]
He has been married to singer and fashion designer Victoria Beckham since
1999; they have four children.
Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
(1982-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_William,_Duke_of_Cambridge
Prince William was born at St Mary's Hospital, London on 21 June 1982. He was
baptised in the Music Room of Buckingham Palace on 4 August 1982 (the 82nd
birthday of his paternal great-grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen
Mother) by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. William's
godparents are: former King Constantine II of Greece (his paternal cousin);
Princess Alexandra, The Hon Mrs Angus Ogilvy (his paternal cousin); the
Duchess of Westminster; the Lady Susan Hussey; Lord Romsey (his paternal
cousin); and Sir Laurens van der Post.[7]
As a male-line grandchild of the sovereign and son of the Prince of Wales,
William was styled 'His Royal Highness' 'Prince William of Wales', though he
was affectionately called 'Wombat' by his parents[8] or 'Wills' (the latter a
name coined by the press by which he is still known by the general public).[9] It
was reported that, at age seven, the Prince said to his mother that he desired
to be a police officer when he was older, so that he might be able to protect
her; a statement to which his brother responded: "Oh, no you can't. You've got
to be King."[10] William's first public appearance was on 1 March 1991 (Saint
David's Day), during an official visit of his parents to Cardiff, Wales. After
arriving by aeroplane, the Prince was taken to Llandaff Cathedral, where he
signed the visitors' book, thereby demonstrating that he was left-handed. On 3
June 1991, William was admitted to Royal Berkshire Hospital after having been
accidentally hit on the side of the forehead by a fellow student wielding a golf
club. The Prince did not lose consciousness, but did suffer a depressed fracture
of the skull and was operated on at the Great Ormond Street Hospital, resulting
in a permanent scar.[11]
William's mother desired her two sons should have wider experiences than are
usual for royal children. Diana took William and his brother to Walt Disney
World and McDonald's; in addition they visited AIDS clinics and shelters for
the homeless. She also bought them things typical teenagers used, such as video
games.[12] Diana, Princess of Wales, who was by then divorced from the Prince of
Wales, died in a car accident in 1997. William, along with his brother and father,
was staying at Balmoral Castle at the time, and the Prince of Wales waited until
early the following morning to tell his sons about their mother's death.[13] At his
mother's funeral, William accompanied his father, brother, paternal
grandfather, and maternal uncle in walking behind the funeral cortège from
Buckingham Palace to Westminster Abbey.
Isaac Newton
25 December 1642 – 20 March 1727
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural
philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, has been "considered by many
to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."[7]
Newton's own copy of his Principia, with hand-written corrections for the
second edition Further information: Writing of Principia Mathematica
His monograph Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, published in 1687,
lays the foundations for most of classical mechanics. In this work, Newton
described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, which dominated
the scientific view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.
Newton showed that the motions of objects on Earth and of celestial bodies are
governed by the same set of natural laws, by demonstrating the consistency
between Kepler's laws of planetary motion and his theory of gravitation, thus
removing the last doubts about heliocentrism and advancing the Scientific
Revolution. The Principia is generally considered to be one of the most important
scientific books ever written.
The Principia was published on 5 July 1687 with encouragement and financial
help from Edmond Halley. In this work, Newton stated the three universal laws
of motion that enabled many of the advances of the Industrial Revolution which
soon followed and were not to be improved upon for more than 200 years, and
are still the underpinnings of the non-relativistic technologies of the modern
world. He used the Latin word gravitas (weight) for the effect that would
become known as gravity, and defined the law of universal gravitation.
Laurence Olivier
(22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM ( /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvi.eɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11
July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most
famous and revered actors of the 20th century.[1] He married three times, to
fellow actors Jill Esmond, Vivien Leigh, and Joan Plowright.
Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy,
Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He
was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its
main stage is named in his honour. He is regarded by some to be the greatest
actor of the 20th century, Olivier's AMPAS acknowledgments are considerable:
twelve Oscar nominations, with two awards (for Best Actor and Best Picture for
the 1948 film Hamlet), plus two honorary awards including a statuette and
certificate. He was also awarded five Emmy awards from the nine nominations he
received. Additionally, he was a three-time Golden Globe and BAFTA winner.
Olivier's career as a stage and film actor spanned more than six decades and
included a wide variety of roles, from the title role in Shakespeare's Othello and
Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night to the sadistic Nazi dentist Christian Szell in
Marathon Man and the kindly but determined Nazi-hunter in The Boys from
Brazil. A High church clergyman's son who found fame on the West End stage,
Olivier became determined early on to master Shakespeare, and eventually came
to be regarded as one of the foremost Shakespeare interpreters of the 20th
century. He continued to act until the year before his death in 1989.[3] Olivier
played more than 120 stage roles: Richard III, Macbeth, Romeo, Hamlet,
Othello, Uncle Vanya, and Archie Rice in The Entertainer. He appeared in nearly
sixty films, including William Wyler's Wuthering Heights, Alfred Hitchcock's
Rebecca, Stanley Kubrick's Spartacus, Otto Preminger's Bunny Lake Is Missing,
Richard Attenborough's Oh! What a Lovely War, and A Bridge Too Far, Joseph
L. Mankiewicz's Sleuth, John Schlesinger's Marathon Man, Daniel Petrie's The
Betsy, Desmond Davis' Clash of the Titans, and his own Henry V, Hamlet, and
Richard III. He also preserved his Othello on film, with its stage cast virtually
intact. For television, he starred in The Moon and Sixpence, John Gabriel
Borkman, Long Day's Journey into Night, Brideshead Revisited, The Merchant of
Venice, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and King Lear, among others.
In 1999, the American Film Institute named Olivier among the Greatest Male
Stars of All Time, at number 14 on the list.