People who changed the world

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Some people in history seem to have been born to transform the world. In the hey-day of monarchy, now long gone, people were born into royal dynasties, and that placed them in a position where they were able to change things. There are many among the people featured in this book who were at the other end of the social scale, people who started with no advantage of birth and who had no family fortune to support them. Sometimes they were lucky with their teachers,as Shakespeare seems to have been, sometimes just lucky in having the right idea at the right moment.
The people selected in this book have altered the world in some significant way, through having an idea, inventing something, discovering something, doing something, or in some cases simply by being something. People such as Oscar Wilde and Marilyn Monroe changed the world by being in themselves symbols or icons, heroes or anti-heroes, role models or anti-role models. Some changed the world for the better, like Pasteur and... Tovább

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Some people in history seem to have been born to transform the world. In the hey-day of monarchy, now long gone, people were born into royal dynasties, and that placed them in a position where they were able to change things. There are many among the people featured in this book who were at the other end of the social scale, people who started with no advantage of birth and who had no family fortune to support them. Sometimes they were lucky with their teachers,as Shakespeare seems to have been, sometimes just lucky in having the right idea at the right moment.
The people selected in this book have altered the world in some significant way, through having an idea, inventing something, discovering something, doing something, or in some cases simply by being something. People such as Oscar Wilde and Marilyn Monroe changed the world by being in themselves symbols or icons, heroes or anti-heroes, role models or anti-role models. Some changed the world for the better, like Pasteur and Lister, some for the worse, like Hitier, Mao and bin Laden. Some people have been included because they changed other people's perception of the world. | Even though the list of people who have changed the world could be lengthened,doubled or even trebled, there is an overriding impression that the hu man race owes a very great deal to a sürprisingly small number of people. Vissza