More... Interesting People

More Interresting people... To think about and consider
how they have used their gifts and talents...


 
This youngsters plans were formed when he was 14 years old.
His father who had no patience for listening 
or understanding the kid's problems,
wanted him to be a police officer like he was and his mother
wanted a trade school. He did neither.
Money was a problem in their household since one of the
highlights of his youth was when the family purchased a refrigerator.
Both of his parents were very strict. "Back then it was a very different
world, if we did something wrong or disobeyed our parents,
the rod was never spared." 
He became...

Arnold Schwarzenegger...

This self-taught high school dropout, considered "lazy, slow and dreamy"
flunked the entrance examinations in the 
Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zurich at 16.
He failed to reach the required standard in several subjects, but obtained exceptional
grades in physics and mathematics.
He strongly objected to rote learning.
He became...

Albert Einstein...

Born of a wealthy ranchero and his cook,
brought up by the Jesuits, the young Democratic lawyer
fighting the Batista dictatorship mafia is... 

Fidel Castro... 



 
Farrokh Bulsara was a buck-toothed Parsi born in Zanzibar
who grew up there and in India until his mid-teens.
In 2006, Time Asia named him one of the
 most influential Asian heroes of the past 60 years.
He is...

Freddy Mercury of Queen 






This young pioneer who was hated and considered
a cockroach by his classmates is...

Vladimir Putin...





 Complications his mother suffered during labor 
forced her obstetricians to
use a pair of forceps during his birth; misuse of these 
accidentially severed a nerve
and caused paralysis in parts of his face. As a result, 
the lower left side of his face
is paralyzed. He bounced between foster homes 
while his parents endured
a troubled marriage in Hell's Kitchen, New York.
He grew up to be...
n
Sylvester Stallone... 





This high school student was judged by his teachers as "turbulent,
quarrelsome, disobedient and unteachable." 
He is... 
 
Charles De Gaulle...






 This cutie was born one of 12 children in Locust Ridge, Tennessee,
in the Great Smoky Mountains. She began performing as a child and was
encouraged to go where her heart took her...
She became...
  b
Dolly Parton...





This happy hippy couple is...

Bill and Hillary Clinton... 




 
This student shouting in anger against social
reforms increasing the choices in education is...

Nicolas Sarkozy... French President... 




 
A very shy unpopular kid regarded as a loner by many and who was
occassionally bullied by classmates for being a "mamma's boy"
was brought up very poor in mostly black neighbourhoods and housing
projects. During his junior year he began to stand out among his classmates, because he styled his hair with rose oil and Vaseline.
His first real job was as a truck driver for the Crown Electric company.
In time he became...

Elvis Presley...