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Stephen Hawking - Theoretical Physicist & Cosmologist | Mini Bio | BIO

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As a name that is known worldwide, Helen Keller is a symbol of courage and hope. Yet, she is much more than a name or a symbol. She was a woman of astounding intelligence, unwavering determination, unbelievable courage and insurmountable achievement. She dedicated her entire life to the betterment of others, helping people see the potential in their own lives, as well as the lives of people around them. She became the first blind-deaf person to effectively communicate with the sighted and hearing world. In so doing, she became an international celebrity from the age of eight, even before the era of mass communications.

Helen Adams Keller was born on June, 27, 1880 to Arthur H. Keller and Kate Adams Keller in the small, north Alabama town of Tuscumbia. When she was only 19 months old, she contracted a fever that would leave her both deaf and blind. At almost seven years of age, her mother and father took her to see the famous inventor, Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, who advised them to hire a governess for the child.

On March 3, 1887, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, a partially blind, twenty-one year old woman, arrived in Tuscumbia to be Helen's teacher. With patience, understanding and love, Miss Sullivan was able to save Helen from her "double dungeon of darkness and silence".

With the help of her beloved teacher, Helen quickly and eagerly learned to read and write. After attending high school at the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston, Massachusetts, Miss Sullivan helped Helen enroll in Radcliffe College, formerly the all-male Harvard College's coordinate institution for female students. With remarkable determination, Helen graduated Cum Laude in 1904, becoming the first deaf-blind person to graduate from college. At that time, she announced that her life would be dedicated to the amelioration of blindness.

After graduation, Helen Keller began her life's work of helping blind and deaf-blind people. She appeared before state and national legislatures and international forums. She regarded herself as a "world citizen", visiting 39 countries on five continents between 1939 and 1957. She published 14 books and produced numerous articles. Not only was she out-spoken on the needs and issues affecting her fellow deaf and deaf-blind comrades, Helen was also a valiant supporter of women's suffrage, civil rights, and the labor union movement, as well as many other worthwhile and important causes.

Helen Keller's pilgrimage from Tuscumbia, Alabama to worldwide recognition is an inspiring story that took her from silence and darkness to a life of vision and advocacy. Against overwhelming odds, she waged a seemingly impossible battle to re-enter the world she had lost. She is one of the most powerful symbols of triumph over adversity our era has produced, leading Winston Churchill to call her, "The greatest woman of our age".

Helen Keller won numerous honors, including several honorary university degrees, the Lions Humanitarian Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the French Legion of Honor and election to the Women's Hall of Fame. She also met every President of the United States, from Calvin Coolidge to John F. Kennedy.

Helen died on June 1, 1968 at the age of 87. She was laid to rest in St. Joseph's Chapel, at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Her legacy reminds us that with faith and courage, we can overcome obstacles in our own lives. With endurance and determination, we can help to better the lives of those around us. With love and patience, we can leave this world a better place.

In 1968, Senator Lister Hill eulogized her as "One of the few persons not born to die". She will always be known as "The first lady of courage".

View photos of Helen Keller and those she touched.

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As a name that is known worldwide, Helen Keller is a symbol of courage and hope. Yet, she is much more than a name or a symbol. She was a woman of astounding intelligence, unwavering determination, unbelievable courage and insurmountable achievement.

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Stuart Scott: Remembering the ESPN Sportscaster

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For more than 10 years, Nelson Mandela International Day has mobilised individuals, governments, civil society and corporate entities to make the world a better place for all.

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Learn about Clara Barton, the founder of the American Red Cross who led the organization for 23 years.

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A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity

As defined by The World Health Organisation

St. Mother Teresa throughout her illustrious life cared the uncared, unwanted and unloved especially sick patients with compassion, humanism and love. Being ardent followers of her, our foundation established The Mother Teresa Medical Foundation.

As a first step towards providing modern treatment mainly to the poor patients we have launched Mother Teresa Health Centre in Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu, India. Patients are provided FREE CONSULTATION and treatment with the help of specialists in the fields of General Medicine, Gynaecology, Paediatrics, Pulmonology, Diabetology, Cardiology. In addition specialists in other fields attend patients on call.

For patients requiring emergency treatment facilities available for admission and treatment round the clock. The foundation has also opened a MOT (Mini operating theatre) for minor procedures and emergency ward in the health center.

In addition, this centre provides (on a non-commercial basis with concessional rates) lab services and medicines from our own lab and pharmacy.

Free consultation with the help of specialists every day.

Dedicated nurses and attendants to serve the patients.

Pharmacy with quality medicines.

Well equipped labs with facilities for clinical tests including ECG and Scanning.

Psychiatry and Counselling help offered to those in need.

With the commissioning of this out-patient clinic, the stage is set to achieve our goal of setting up a full-fledged multi-specialty hospital.

Upgrading the Health Centre

A project has been set up to upgrade the The Mother Teresa Health Centre, which is currently an out-patient clinic, to, an in-patient centre with about 20 beds. This upgrade also includes ICU, Operating Theatre and other required amenities.

This requires additional construction to be undertaken in land that is already available. The estimates for this project is set at 50,00,000 INR

You can donate towards this project by using the button below

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Being Aron Ralston, Amputee Mountaineer | The New York Times

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Aloha!
I'm Bethany

I know life can be hard, but I've learned that
we can rise above even the biggest challenges
and fears. No matter where you've come from,
or what you're facing, you are loved by God,
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Bethany Hamilton | Soul Surfer, Professional Surfer, Role Model, Inspiration

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I know life can be hard, but I've learned that we can rise above even the biggest challenges and fears. No matter where you've come from, or what you're facing, you are loved by God, and you can overcome.

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Ellen DeGeneres Medal of Freedom Award 11-22-16

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Records show that Lucille Ball was born on Aug. 6, 1911, and died on April 26, 1989, at age 77. But her fans know otherwise. The "Lucy" of I Love Lucy, the classic sitcom that ran from 1951 to 1957 and all but invented one of TV's most durable forms, has never left us. There she is, daily on the Hallmark Channel; there she is again, streaming on Amazon, Hulu, and CBS.com, the Internet offshoot of her original network; and there she is some more, available in "ultimate" packages of crystalline high-definition Blu-rays. She's so everywhere that Gillian Anderson, as the goddess "Media," appeared as Lucy in the first of her many guises on Starz's fantasy series American Gods. Who Was Lucille Ball? asks one of the newest entries in the popular series of kid's books. If your kids ask, give them several reasons why she'll never be forgotten.

She was funny...

Mention "Vitameatavegamin" to someone you know and chances are they'll get the reference to one of the show's more famous episodes, "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (1952). "Candy Factory," from the same year's "Job Switching" episode, is another of Lucy's greatest hits, all carefully scripted, never ad-libbed. She was meticulous about her comedy.

...But she was more than funny

Lucy headlined I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960), The Lucy Show (1962-1968), Here's Lucy (1968-1974), and Life with Lucy (1986). Lucille Ball, however, had a more dramatic pedigree at the movies, appearing with Katharine Hepburn and Ginger Rogers in the Broadway adaptation Stage Door (1937), the jungle adventure Five Came Back (1939), and as a selfish, mean-spirited nightclub singer tormenting lovelorn busboy Henry Fonda (a former boyfriend of hers) in her favorite big screen credit, The Big Street (1942). Stuck as the "Queen of the Bs" (B-movies), she and husband Desi Arnaz turned to TV, and, at age 40, she found the enduring fame that had eluded her. Returning to her roots, she played it straight as a homeless person in her last TV movie, 1985's Stone Pillow.

She was the boss

Ball was the first woman to head a production company, Desilu, and after her 20-year marriage to Arnaz ended in 1960 she bought him out and continued to run it until 1967, when she sold her shares to Gulf+Western and Paramount Studios. The sale netted her $17 million. Desilu's hits included Star Trek, Mission: Impossible, and The Untouchables. (One notable talent she spotted on the job was the late Robert Osborne, an aspiring actor in the early 1960s. He said she told him that he'd never be happy as a performer and encouraged him to write, and eventually he merged the two talents as Turner Classic Movies' avuncular host.)

She pushed the envelope

Pregnant with their second child, Desi Arnaz, Jr., in 1952, she and Arnaz used their clout to make their "expecting," as it was called, a plotline. CBS was skittish about her delicate condition, but her real-life pregnancy, depicted over seven episodes, was a smash with viewers. "Lucy is Enceinte" (the word "pregnant" was a no-no, so the French word was used) launched the groundbreaking arc, and an audience of 44 million tuned it to watch the finale, "Lucy Goes to the Hospital."

She doesn't scare easily

A 400 lb.-bronze statue of Ball unveiled in her hometown of Celoron, NY, in 2009 startled the public. It also upset its artist, Dave Poulin, who as controversy mounted over the years admitted to The Hollywood Reporter that his well-intentioned likeness was "by far my most unsettling sculpture, not befitting of Lucy's beauty or my ability as a sculptor." By 2015 it was clear that the gargoyle dubbed "Scary Lucy" by the press had to go, and on Ball's 105th birthday last year another sculptor, Carolyn Palmer, replaced it with her more cheerful handiwork, which she called "New Lucy." (But "Scary Lucy," who has her own fan club, remains in the same park, more discreetly displayed.)

She was quotable

"I'm not funny. What I am is brave."

"One of the things I learned the hard way is that it doesn't pay to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself."

"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."

She keeps on giving

The National Comedy Center's long-running Lucille Ball Comedy Festival is being held July 31-August 6, Ball's birthday, in her native Jamestown, NY. Guests will include Jim Gaffigan, Robert Klein, and Lisa Lampanelli. Last year, the center's Lucy-Desi Museum Board director, Cindy Aronson, explained her appeal. "I like what Lucie Arnaz said and I'm paraphrasing this but she said 'my mom made a tonic that never expires. You can drink of it and always feel better.'"

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A Ball That Never Ends: Why We Still Love Lucy

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Records show that Lucille Ball was born on Aug. 6, 1911, and died on April 26, 1989, at age 77. But her fans know otherwise. The "Lucy" of I Love Lucy, the classic sitcom that ran from 1951 to 1957 and all but invented one of TV's most durable forms, has never left us.

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Malala Fund | Working for a world where all girls can learn and lead

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Founded by student and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai, Malala Fund invests in girls’ education programmes to help girls go to school and reach their full potential.

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There's a Hattie McDaniel biopic in the works, according to the 'Hollywood Reporter.' Born to slave parents, McDaniel was the first African-American actress to win an Academy Award in 1940 for her supporting role as Mammy in 'Gone With the Wind.'

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Barack Obama: 44th President of the United States of America | Biography

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Perseverance.  The story of Nick Vujicic.

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1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony is born on February 15 in Adams, Massachusetts, the second of seven children.

1826 - The Anthony family moves to Battenville, New York.

1838 - Daniel Anthony takes daughters Susan and Guelma out of school. The 1837 depression causes him to declare bankruptcy and the family loses the Battenville house.

1845 - The Anthony family moves to Rochester, NY, on the Erie Canal. Their farm on what is now Brooks Avenue becomes a meeting-place for anti-slavery activists, including Frederick Douglass.

1846 - Susan B. Anthony begins teaching at Canajoharie Academy for a yearly salary of $110.

1851 - Susan B. Anthony travels to Seneca Falls, NY, anti-slavery convention. She visits Amelia Bloomer, hears William Lloyd Garrison and George Thompson, and meets Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

1852 - Anthony attends state convention of Sons of Temperance and is told to "listen and learn," which goes against her Quaker upbringing. She attends her first women's rights convention.

1854 - Anthony circulates petitions for married women's property rights and woman suffrage. She is refused permission to speak at the Capitol and Smithsonian in Washington. She begins her New York State campaign for woman suffrage in Mayville, Chautauqua County, speaking and traveling alone.

1856 - Anthony becomes agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society.

1857 - At a New York State Teachers' Convention in Binghamton Anthony calls for education for women and Blacks.

1861 - Anthony conducts anti-slavery campaign from Buffalo to Albany-"No Union with Slaveholders. No Compromise."

1863 - Anthony and Stanton write the "Appeal to the Women of the Republic."

1868 - Anthony begins publication of The Revolution and forms Working Women's Associations for women in the publishing and garment trades.

1869 - Anthony calls the first Woman Suffrage Convention in Washington D.C.

1872 - Anthony is arrested for voting in the front parlor of 7 Madison Street (now 17 Madison) on November 18 and is indicted in Albany. She continues to lecture and attend conventions.

1873 - Anthony is tried and fined $100 with costs after the judge ordered the jury to find her guilty. Anthony refuses to pay but is not imprisoned so cannot appeal the verdict.

1881 - Anthony, Stanton, and Matilda Joslin Gage publish Volume I of the History of Woman Suffrage, followed by Volumes II, III and IV in 1882, 1885 and 1902.

1898 - The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, A Story of the Evolution of the Status of Wome n is published. Anthony establishes a press bureau to feed articles on woman suffrage to the national and local press.

1900 - Anthony pledges the cash value of her life insurance to meet the University of Rochester's financial demands for the admission of women.

1902 - Anthony delivers the keynote address to the New York State Nurses Convention, advocating for the standardization of training and state registration of nurses. The Nurses Practice Act is passed in 1903.

1905 - Anthony meets with President Theodore Roosevelt in Washington, D.C., about submitting a suffrage amendment to Congress.

1906 - Anthony attends suffrage hearings in Washington, D.C., She gives her "Failure is Impossible" speech at her 86th birthday celebration. Anthony dies at her Madison Street home on March 13.

1920 - The 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, also known as the Susan B. Anthony amendment, grants the right to vote to all U.S. women over 21.

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1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony is born on February 15 in Adams, Massachusetts, the second of seven children. 1826 - The Anthony family moves to Battenville, New York. 1838 - Daniel Anthony takes daughters Susan and Guelma out of school. The 1837 depression causes him to declare bankruptcy and the family loses the Battenville house.

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Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together. For nearly two decades, those values have energized the work of the Foundation in overcoming complex challenges and improving the lives of people across the United States and around the world.

As an operating foundation, we work on issues directly or with strategic partners from the business, government, and nonprofit sectors to create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service. Our programs are designed to make a real difference today while serving as proven models for tomorrow. The goal of every effort is to use available resources to get better results faster - at the lowest possible cost.

We firmly believe that when diverse groups of people bring resources together in the spirit of true cooperation, transformative ideas will emerge to drive life-changing action.

How We Work

To fulfill this mission, the Clinton Foundation works with strategic partners to develop and implement programs that create economic opportunity, improve public health, and inspire civic engagement and service.

Within these three programmatic areas, our work ranges from helping farmers in Africa increase their yields and incomes to mobilizing relief efforts in the wake of natural disasters; from confronting public health crises such as HIV/AIDS, the opioid epidemic, heart disease, diabetes, and childhood obesity to combating the effects of climate change in the Caribbean through clean and renewable energy efforts.

In addition, the Foundation is committed to cultivating a diverse, new generation of leaders. This includes programs that help students create change on their college campuses; support networks that foster women's leadership in the renewable energy and artisan sectors; and a historic partnership between the presidential libraries of President Clinton, President George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, and Lyndon B. Johnson to cultivate promising leaders from the business, academic, public service, nonprofit, and military sectors as they seek to create positive change on the issues confronting their communities.

The Foundation also operates the Clinton Presidential Center in Little Rock, which provides year-round cultural and educational opportunities and is home to the Clinton Presidential Library and Museum, one of the largest archival collections in American presidential history.

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Building on a lifetime of public service, President Clinton established the Clinton Foundation on the simple belief that everyone deserves a chance to succeed, everyone has a responsibility to act, and we all do better when we work together.

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(Biography through her term as Secretary of State)