Famous People with Unpromising Beginnings: People Who Defied Superiors' Opinion to Achieve Greatness

Shakespeare once wrote: ' ... some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them...’.

 

History has shown that majority of rich and famous people were not born into fame and fortune; neither was greatness thrust upon them: they achieved greatness by working at being great.

The Partitioning and Colonization of Africa: A Brief History of European Imperialism in Africa

European presence in Africa by 1875 consisted of just forts and trading posts along the coast and a few tiny colonies. That all changed after the Berlin Conference.

   

Between 1880 and 1910, Africa was divided up among the Europeans at the so-called Berlin Conference that took place in 1884. At this conference, fourteen European nations had convened to settle the political partitioning of Africa; but no African was to be invited or made privy to their decisions. Subsequently, for the next seven decades, decisions affecting Africa and its people were made not in Africa, but in London, Paris, Madrid, Lisbon and other European capitals.

Turning Back the Clock on Ageing

Aging and all the ailments that comes with it may not solely depend on physiological factor as many may have believed; it is found to be a complex function of physiology and state of mind.

According to a report published in Newsweek by Wray Herbert in April 14, 2009, Harvard psychologist, Ellen Langer did a study where she took a group of elderly men to an isolated old New England hotel, retrofitted so that every conspicuous sign was made to appear as it was two decades earlier. From their outfit to the news they watched and music they listened to, were all fixed to appear as if they were 20 years earlier.