Bill gates full biography of aretha
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Who Is Bill Gates?
(Who Was?)
Description
Bill Gates, born in Seattle, Washington, in , is an American business magnate, investor, philanthropist, and author. In this Who Was? biography, children will learn of Gates' childhood passion for computer technology, which led him to revolutionize personal computers. Through the success of his now-world-famous software company, Microsoft, Bill Gates became one of the wealthiest philanthropists in fascinating story of a child technology genius is sure to captivate any audience!
Publication date
March 21,
Classification
Non-fiction
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
BISAC categories
JNF - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
JNF - Juvenile Nonfiction | Computers | Software
Library of Congress categories
History
United States
Businesspeople
Computer software industry
Gates, Bill
Patricia Brennan Demuth has written many books for children, including Johnny Appleseed, and Snakes.
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Aretha Franklin's 'Amazing Grace'
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When Aretha went back to gospel. “Queen of Soul” Aretha Franklin and her epic album, “Amazing Grace.”
January 13th, Watts. Los Angeles. The New Temple Missionary Baptist Church was in a swivet. Aretha Franklin was in the house. The preacher’s daughter who had taken the pop world by storm, who had gone platinum secular superstar, had become the “Queen of Soul,” had come home to gospel.
Never mind “Chain of Fools” and “Respect” and “I never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You). Tonight it was “Precious Lord”. Tonight it was “Amazing Grace.”
This hour, On Point: the Queen of Soul’s greatest recording.
-Tom Ashbrook
Guests
Aaron Cohen, associate editor of DownBeat, a jazz and blues magazine. He's the author of a new book Aretha Franklin's Amazing Grace about the album.
Alexander Hamilton, pastor at the Community Missionary Baptist Church. He directed the choir and arranged some of the songs for the “Amazing Grace” concert and album.
Bernard Purdie, a drummer who’s worked with Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Steeley Dan, on Broadway in the musical “Hair.” He’s the drummer on the “Amazing Grace” album, and was Aretha Franklin’s musical
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Jobs Says Restaurant check Gates 'Unimaginative' In His Biography
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