Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.. Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times. During the Second World …

William Leonard Roberts II (born January 28, 1976), known professionally as Rick Ross, is an American rapper. [2] Prior to releasing his debut single, " Hustlin' ", in 2006, Ross was the subject of a bidding war, receiving offers from Diddy 's Bad Boy Entertainment and Irv Gotti 's Murder Inc. , until signing a multimillion-dollar deal with Jay-Z on Def Jam Recordings .

William III (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also widely known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from the 1670s, and King of England, Ireland, and Scotland from 1689 until his death in 1702.

Daniel Defoe (/ d ɪ ˈ f oʊ /; born Daniel Foe; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731) was an English writer, trader, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, which is claimed to be second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form ...

Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World War II veterans. Carleton was chartered as a university by the provincial government in 1952 through The Carleton …

William Graham Sumner (October 30, 1840 – April 12, 1910) was an American clergyman, social scientist, and classical liberal.He taught social sciences at Yale University—where he held the nation's first professorship in sociology—and became one of the most influential teachers at any other major school.. Sumner wrote extensively on the social sciences, penning numerous …

French français Pronunciation [fʁɑ̃sɛ] Native to France, now worldwide Native speakers 76.8 million 321 million total (L1 plus L2 ; 2022) Language family Indo-European Italic Latino-Faliscan Romance Western Romance Gallo-Romance Oïl French Early forms Old Latin Classical Latin Vulgar Latin Old Gallo-Romance Old French Middle French Writing system Latin (French …

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592.The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the induction, in which a mischievous nobleman tricks a drunken tinker named Christopher Sly into believing he is actually a nobleman himself. The nobleman then has the play performed for Sly's diversion.

Daniel Carleton Gajdusek (/ ˈ ɡ aɪ d ə ʃ ɛ k / GHY-də-shek; September 9, 1923 – December 12, 2008) was an American physician, medical researcher, and convicted sex offender who was the co-recipient (with Baruch S. Blumberg) of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1976 for work on the transmissibilty of kuru, implying the existence of an infectious agent which he …

Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872) was an American inventor and painter. After having established his reputation as a portrait painter, in his middle age Morse contributed to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system based on European telegraphs. He was a co-developer of Morse code and helped to develop the commercial use of telegraphy.