Begum Khaleda Zia

Begum Khaleda Zia

Begum Khaleda Zia

Begum Khaleda Zia was born to Iskandar Majumder, a businessman, and Taiyaba Majumdar at Dinajpur district in northwestern Bangladesh in 1945. In 1960, she got married to Ziaur Rahman ,Her husband , one of the prominent heroes of the country’s liberation war, later became the President of the Republic and formed the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP)

Until the assassination of President Ziaur Rahman in an abortive military coup in Chittagong on 30 May 1981, Khaleda Zia had taken little interest in either politics or republic life. Even when her husband was propelled to power after the political changes in 1975, she reminded a shy and withdrawn housewife who devoted most of her time grooming up her two sons. 

After the assassination of President Ziaur Rahman, his Vice-President Justice Abdus Sattar took over as the acting President and also the Chairman of the BNP which the slain president founded in 1978, Within four months of the presidential election in November 1981, the then Chief of Army Staff General H.M. Ershad overthrew Justice Sattar and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party government. On 24 March 1982, he proclaimed martial law. 

In March 1983, Justice Sattar appointed Khaleda Zia a vice-chairman of BNP. On February 1984, she became the chairperson as Justice Sattar retired from politics. On 10 August the same year, the party elected her the chairperson. Meanwhile, BNP formed a seven-party alliance in September 1983 to step up movement against the autocratic regime of General Ershad. Khaleda Zia was detained seven times during almost nine years of autocratic rule. In the face of mass upsurge spearheaded by Begum Khaleda Zia led seven party alliance and the eight-party combine led by Hasina, President Ershad resigned on 6 December 1990. He handed over power to a neutral caretaker government, bringing an end to his nine-year autocratic rule. In 1991, she became the country’s first woman Prime Minister through a free and fair general election on 27 February 1991 and formed the government. 

Khaleda Zia

She became Prime Minister for the second consecutive term after the BNP had a landslide victory I 15 February 1996 general elections to the sixth Jatiya Sangsad. The election was, however, boycotted by all other major parties. In the 12 June 1996 polls, BNP lost to Sheikh Hasina’s Awami League but emerged as the largest opposition party in the country’s parliamentary history with 116 seats.The BNP restored the parliamentary system through the 12^th amendment to the Constitution in 1991 and introduced the Caretaker Government through13^th amendment to the Constitution in 1996. 

When in power, the government of Khaleda Zia made considerable progress in the education sector, introducing compulsory free primary education, free education for girls up to class ten, stipend for the girl students and food for education programme. It also increased the age-limit for entry into government services from 27 years to 30 years and made highest budgetary allocation in the education sector. 

 Aiming to return to power, the BNP formed a four-party opposition alliance on 6 January 1999 with the Jatiya Party, the Jamaat-e-Islami and the Islami Oiky aJote and launched several agitation programmes against the rulling Awami League. The alliance then participated in the 1 October general election and won the polls with a two-third majority and Khaleda Zia was once again sworn in as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.  

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About Kate Winslet

About Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on October 5^th, 1975 in Reading, England. Her height is 5’8”; the clour of the hair is Blonde, The clour of the eyes are Blue-green (hazel). She was born into a family of people in the theatre, and it seemed to Kate that it was the natural thing to do to go into it. Her first role ever was the Virgin Mary, at age 5. From that point on, she had caught the acting bug. She attended Red roofs, a performing arts school in Maidenhead, until age 16. Kate’s first job was in a Sugar Puffs cereal commercial. After that, she appeared in a few television series. On one of them, Dark Season, she met Stephan Tredre, many years her senior, who became Kate’s first real love interest. They were together for quite some time, and continued to be extremely close. Stephan passed away in December, of cancer, causing Kate Winslet to miss the Hollywood premier of Titanic.

Titanic Picture

During her childhood, and into her teen years, Kate’s 5’6” frame weighed as much as 185 pounds, which led to her to acquire the nickname “Blubber” in school. Her weight has since become a non-issue in my opinion, but one that still causes her to get press about. Personally, one of the reasons why I like Kate is that she looks like a normal person, not someone who looks like they have been stranded on a desert island for five months eating nothing but berries and moss. Anyway, Kate’s first movie role was in Heavenly Creatures, the much acclaimed New Zealand film about the true story of two girls whose relationship becomes so close that it causes them to do a drastic thing to be together. Kate plays one of those girls, Juliet Hulme. After Heavenly Creatures in 1994, Kate Winslet had a role in Disney’s A Kid in King Arthur’s Court, as Princess Sarah and her Oscar-nominated role a Marianne 1995. She followed up with the part of sue Bridgehead in Jude and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s wondrous Hamlet.

Currently, Kate has the starring role in James Cameron’s amazing, heart-wrenching, wonderful Titanic, as Rose Dewitt Bukater, the 17-year old wild beauty trapped in the heart of Philadelphia high society. Kate got a second Oscar nomination for her part as Rose. Kate Winslet also received a nomination for best actress from the Screen Actors Guild Awards. Kate’s future projects include a movie called Hideous Kinky, which is set to be released in June 1998. Kate stars as a young British mother of two in the 1960’s who is traveling around Morocco with her two young daughters. Kate Elizabeth Winslet also slated to do a new film with Director Jane Campion called Holy Smoke.

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Colin Powell-Former US Foreign Secretary

Colin Powell-Former US Foreign Secretary 

Colin Powell

Colin Powell was born on 05 April 1937 in New York. Colin Powell was born to Jamaican immigrant parents Luther and Maud and was raised in the South Bronx area of New York.

He was educated in the public school system of New York City, before attending City College of New York, where he studied for a bachelor’s degree in Geology. Colin Powell also obtained a Masters in Business Administration from George Washington University.

On graduating he became a commissioned second lieutenant in the United States Army, and spent two tours of duty in Vietnam. During his thirty-five year military career, Powell reached the rank of four-star general.He was also assistant to the President for National Security from 1987-89, as well as being appointed the twelfth Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-the highest position within the Department of Defense. During his time in this role, Powell oversaw many campaigns aboard, including the successful Operation Desert Storm, in the 1991 Persian Gulf War. He retired from the army in 1993 a well-decorated soldier.

Colin Powell

After retiring, Colin Powell published his autobiography ‘My Armenian Journey’, as well as appearing around America and aboard as a public speaker.In 2001, George W. Bush selected Colin Powell to be his Secretary of State, and he became the first African-American to take the position.Colin Powell is also heavily involved in charity work, especially for those charities aiming to help children. He has been the chairman of ‘America’s Promise’-an organization intended to increase the investment made by the United States in their youth.

Colin Powell is married to Alma Vivien Johnson, and the couple has three children; a son Michael, and two daughters Linda and Anne-Marie.  

 

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Mao Tse-tung (the Chinese Communist Leader)

What did Japan demand from China?

When Mao Tse-tung heard of Lenin and the great revolution in Russia, China was passing through a time of suffering. In 1915 Japan had occupied the Shantung Province of China. Confucius, the great Chinese regarded it as their Holy land. Later in the same year Japan sent a threatening letter to the Chinese President. Written on paper watermarked with machine guns, the letter demanded more areas in China and several Chinese ports. Japan wanted to command the police in the big Chinese cities, have Japanese officials in the Chinese government, and control the coal and iron mines and railways in China. The Japanese demands were supported by the powerful countries of Europe. The weak Chinese government had to accept the demands.

The Chinese people protested against giving in to Japan. There were banners at street corners reading, ‘Don’t forget the shame of the nation.’ On 4 May 1919, over three thousand students gathered at the Square of Heavenly Peace in Peking. They swore two oaths:

“China’s land may be conquered, but it cannot be given away,

 The Chinese people may be killed, but they will not surrender.”

Then they marched through the whole city. They distributed pamphlets protesting against the rulers. There were fights with the police at some places, and some students were arrested. The story of the 4 May demonstrations  all over China. In the province of Hunan the students were led by Mao tse-tung. Mao edited a student’s journal, the Hasiang Chiang Review, and ran a bookshop at that time.

About Mao Tse-tung

Mao tung was born in 1893. His father was a poor peasant. But he entered business and became quite rich. Mao Tse-tung went to school when he was eight. In early morning and at night he worked on the farm. During the day he read the writings of Confucius. The Chinese teacher at school was very strict. He beat his students whenever he was angry. Mao’s father also beat Mao tse and his brothers. Mao ran away from home when he was ten years old. He wandered for three days before he was found y his family. Mao had thought that he was walking towards the nearest city. But he had actually only gone round and round the same place. When he came back home, he found both his father and teacher more considerate. But his father still complained that young Mao tung was lazy and disobedient, and he sometimes beat the boy.

Mao left school for a time and worked long hours on the farm. At night he looked after his father’s accounts. Still he found time for reading. He loved to read old Chinese tales and stories of revolts in the past.

There was a great famine in China at that time. The hungry people went to the rich landlords and the governors begging for food. When they were turned out, they often got wild and burnt down the houses of the rich. The leaders of these people were arrested. Their heads were cut off and hung upon poles to frighten the people. Mao tung was deeply moved by these events. He wanted to find out how the common people could be given a better life.

He went back to school to learn how things could be changed. Mao changed school a number of times. He found the schools teaching things in which he was not interested. He gave up going to school after a time and spent all his time reading in the Hunan Library. But Mao had no money. His father had refused to send him money unless he went to school. So he had to go to school again, where he studied hard.

When he went up to college, he gathered a group of students around himself. It was a very serious-minded group of young people. They never talked about their personal problems or interests. They talked only of grand matters- of China and the world. They took great care to be strong and healthy. They tramped through the fields, up and down the mountains, and across the streams and rivers. They slept in the open when frost fell. In cold November they swam in the rivers. This group grew into a society called The New People’s Study Society.

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1917 revolution by Lenin

Vladimir Lenin

1917 revolution by Lenin

1917 revolution by Lenin was the historical event. However,on that very day Vladimir Lenin sat for his mathematics paper in the school-leaving examination. A classmate wrote later, “We were all terribly agitated. Only Vladimir Ulyanow, seated behind his desk, wrote calmly and unhurriedly. We had six hours for doing our papers. Vladimir finished his work earlier than the rest of us. He was the first to leave the examination Hall.” Vladimir stood first in the examination, and won a gold medal.

In the next few months and years Vladimir thought deeply about his brother’s fate. He had heard about revolutionaries in the past. But he had always thought. “Alexander can’t be a revolutionary. A revolutionary can’t give so much time to the study of worms. Now Vladimir wanted to know why Alexander had given away his life. From the writings of the great poets and novelists, he now turned to history and politics. He read about the revolutions in America and France. He felt that Russia needed a revolution too. He wanted to be a revolutionary himself.

In 1887 Vladimir went to study at the University of Kazan. At Kazan he learnt about the ideas of the great German thinker, Karl Marx. Vladimir settled in the city of St. Petersburg as a lawyer. Vladimir and his comrades went to the factory workers, found out for themselves how they lived, and taught them how they could improve their life. They wrote pamphlets for the workers and distributed them in the factories. Vladimir wrote many pamphlets himself. The police soon arrested Vladimir.

Krupskaya

Vladimir was sent to Siberia. It was so far away from St. Petersburg that the prisoners in Siberia were not kept shut in. Vladimir lived in a small house. Krupskaya, a revolutionary who later became his wife, stayed in the same house. They read books together and talked about the sufferings of the Russian workers. In the evenings they went out for long walks. Vladimir was a good hunter, and there were hares in the woods. One day Vladimir stood before a wood waiting for a hare to come out. His comrades made a loud sound on drums and tins to frighten the hare and make it come out. A fox came straight towards Vladimir. It stopped and looked at him, then slipped away into the woods. Krupskaya rushed up to him. ‘Why didn’t you shoot?’ she asked him. ‘This fox was so beautiful’, he said.

This year 1917 began with strikes and large demonstrations against the Tsar. The police was attacked. Even the soldiers joined the demonstrators. In March the Tsar gave up. Russia came to be ruled by an elected government. Lenin returned to Russia on 16 April 1917. The new government changed nothing. The anger of the people grew. The Bolshevik party, under Lenin’s leadership, organized a worker’s army and secured arms. Lenin spoke at numerous meetings. The new Bolshevik daily newspaper, Pravda (The Truth), carried Lenin’s appeals to the Russian army. There were clashes between the peasants and the police at many places. The soldiers joined the Bolsheviks and disobeyed the government.

On the morning of 7 November 1917, The Bolsheviks occupied the post offices, telegraph stations, banks and railway stations. There was little struggle, for the people working there were already with the Bolsheviks. In the evenings the Bolshevik soldiers surrounded the winter palace in St. Petersburg. The government ministers were inside it. There was fierce fighting between the government troops and the Bolshevik Red Guards. The battle began at 9.45 p.m. with the guns of the ship Aurora fighting a loud blank shot in the air. That was the signal for the Red Guards to attack. The battle began to die down in the early hours of the morning. A new government led by Lenin took over the next day.

The new Bolshevik government had to fight against many enemies over the next few years. On 30 August 1918 a young woman tried to shoot Lenin. With two bullets inside him, Lenin’s wife was in danger. But he became well again and worked hard to give his people peace, food and happiness. Lenin promised a young woman in 1920, 

‘Your children will never be able to imagine that there was once a time when one man could own houses, factories and riches when thousands of workers went hungry and no home of their own’.

Lenin died in 1924. His body has been preserved. It lies in a tomb in the Red Square in Moscow. Every day thousands of people walk past his body to pay their respects.So 1917 revolution by was very important for Russian people.
 

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Why was Alexander hanged?

Why was Alexander hanged?

Why was Alexander hanged? It has some reasons. In nineteenth century Russia was ruled by Russian emperor, who was called the ‘Tsar’. His speech was laws. Everybody was obliged to obey his order. In his reign people was not so good. At that time comes the Lenin hero. His brother was Alexander. After passing final examinations with top marks and a gold medal, Alexander left home to enter the University at St. Petersburg. In a letter to his sister a few months later, he wrote, ‘I am in good health. I am living as before. I work in the laboratory until six o’clock. The evenings I spend mostly at home’. 

He was a lonely boy. The other boys teased him as a dreamer. But he soon came to take a great interest in politics. He did not like the way the Tsar’s police arrested students on suspicion, and seized their letters in the mail. In 1887 some students formed a group and planned to kill the Tsar. Alexander joined the group. He was asked to prepare a statement for the people and make the bombs. But a few days before the date they had set for killing the Tsar, They were all arrested. Alexander faced the trial bravery. He took the responsibility entirely upon himself to save his comrades. He was sentenced to death, and hanged on 8 May. 

 

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Michael Jackson’s Biography

Michael Jacson

Michael Jackson’s Biography

Michael Jackson was born 29 August 1958 in Gary, Indiana. Michael Jackson was born in 1958, the seventh of nine children, to Joseph and Katherine Jackson. He was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness and only officially left the organization in 1987. Still a vegetarian, Jackson is a professional entertainer, singer and songwriter whose reputation and cultural impact belie a small body of solo work.

In the mid 1960s, their father formed Michael Jackson, along with his brothers Jackie, Tito, Germaine and Marlon, into ‘The Jackson 5 ‘. The group began singing in local clubs and bars and was signed to Motown Records in 1969. The family moved to California and the first four singles released by the group “ABC’, ‘I want you Back’, ‘The Love You Save’ and ‘I’ll Be There’ all reached number 1 in the charts. Jackson and some of his siblings would later claim that their father was a strict disciplinarian in this period, and have alleged varying degrees of physical and mental abuse.

Michael Jackson Albums

Albums of Jackson

In 1976, the group left Motown and renamed themselves ‘The Jackson’s’. Despite a flexible line-up, including brother Randy and younger sister Janet, and the growing solo career of Michael, the Jackson released another six albums and toured all over the world until 1984.

Jones produced the first three solo albums for Michael. The first, ‘Off the Wall’ was a departure from the more traditional Motown sound of the Jackson and, whilst it was a hit, both critically and commercially, It was not enough to separate the young singer from the family group entirely. The next album, ‘Thriller’, would change all that and more.

The ‘Thriller’ video was ambitious from the start. Hiring an established cinema director and using state-of-the-art make-up and special effects, the homage to horror films is widely acknowledged as one of the most influential of all time. The album went on the win Jackson seven Grammy in 1984, with the artist winning another for narrating ‘The E.T. storybook’. The eight awards was a record only later matched by Carlos Santana.

Family life of Michael Jackson

5 members of Jacksons family

Michael Jackson has been married twice. In 1994, he married Elvis Presley’s daughter, Lisa Marie, but they were divorced within two years. In 1996, he married Debbie Rowe. Despite two children, Prince Michael and Paris Katherine, the couple also divorced, In 1999. Early in 2002, Jackson had another son, Prince Michael II (Sometime known as ‘Blanket’) via a surrogate mother, whose identity has not been released. For security reasons, the children are masked whenever they appear in public. Ms. Rowe has claimed that this is at her request, to prevent kidnapping.

Finally, in November 2003, Jackson was booked and released on bail to face charges of ‘lewd or lascivious acts’ with a child under 14. He now faces nine counts on various charges and pre-trail procedures have commenced. His trial is expected to begin in January 2005. Michael Jackson has countered with allegations of mistreatment and police brutality. Little can be made of the truth in the case until after the trial, with heavy media restrictions limiting access to the facts.

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What happened on Bloody Sunday?

What happened on ‘Bloody Sunday’?

Bloody Sunday is a painfullest part of history. Towards the close of the nineteenth century Russia was a large country. It stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean, a distance of 6,000 miles. This vast land was ruled by one man, the Russian Emperor, who was called the ‘Tsar’ (Tsar comes from the Latin word Caesar). He could do anything he liked. He had all the power and people had to obey him. His word was law, A band of officials, all appointed by the Tsar himself, collected the taxes, and ran the army and the navy. They all belonged to a few rich families, and knew little about how the common people lived.

Most of the Russians were peasants. The peasants paid heavy taxes and lived in poverty. Some of them came to the towns to work in factories. The workers lived in crowded slums and worked long hours for low wages in bad conditions. The peasants, the workers and the students held protest meetings all over the country. There were many strikes and riots. Tsar Alexander II was killed by a revolutionary in 1881. His son, Alexander III, and grandson, Nicholas II, took stern measures to hold the people in check. The Tsar’s police kept watch on people. Whenever they thought that someone was a revolutionary they would send him to Siberia and keep him imprisoned there.

On 22 January 1905 a large procession of workers marched towards the Tsar Nicholas II’s palace. They carried the Tsar’s portraits and only wanted to beg the Tsar for help. But the police fired on the peaceful people and killed five hundred of them. That day came to be known in Russian history as ‘Bloody Sunday’. The revolutionary groups began to come together, and soon they found their leader in Lenin.

Who was Vladimir Lenin?

Vladimir Ilyitch Ulyanov, for that was Lenin’s real name, was born on 22 April 1870, in the town of Simbirsk on the river Vogla. His father was a teacher of physics and mathematics, and later on, an inspector of schools.

The reddish, bulky, lively Vladimir lenin was the noisiest and the most mischievous of his six children. They called him Kubyshkin-the pot with a fat belly. One of his favorite games was to set traps for birds. But he gave up the game when one of his own died in its cage. In the Red Indians game he was always the Red Indian. The white men chased him and he hunted wild beasts. At school Vladimir did extremely well. He was attentive and quiet during lessons, but became wild after the class was over. Vladimir was very fond of his elder brother, Alexander, who was four years older. They both liked to be left alone so that they could concentrate on their studies. Alexander was busy all the time with his microscope studying insects. Vladimir sat in the same room at his table reading books in Latin.     

 

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