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Everyone
knows the most recent headlines about our country’s greatest leaders.
In this feature, we’d like to shed some light on the lesser-known facts
about these folks in hopes of giving you a little greater insight as to
what makes them tick.
Bill Gates
William Henry Gates was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, USA. - His father William was a corporate lawyer, and his mother Mary was a schoolteacher.
- By the age of 17, Gates had sold his first computer program, a time-tabling system for his high school, for $4,200.
- Gates scored 1590 on his SAT standardized test. The top score for the test is 1600.
- Gates told his university teachers he would be a millionaire by age 30. He became a billionaire at age 31.
- While at Harvard, Gates co-wrote Altair BASIC, which became Microsoft’s (then called Micro-Soft) first product.
- He
met his wife, Melinda French, in 1987 at a Microsoft press event in
Manhattan while she was a worker for the company. They would go on to
get married on New Years Day in 1994.
- In 2002, Bill Gates
was considered more idolized than Chinese Communist leader Mao Tse-tung
in a poll of teenagers in Hong Kong and China. The survey was conducted
by the City University of Hong Kong.
- In 2005, Gates was
honored with the title Knight Commander of the Order of the British
Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of England.
- As of the March 2007 issue of Forbes
magazine, Bill Gates has been listed as Number 1 on “Forbes’ Richest
People” list for 13 years in a row. His current net worth is about $56
billion.
- Gates has recently announced that he will be
reducing his involvement at Microsoft and will be devoting more time to
his charity work.
- He is currently having a building named
after him at Carnegie Mellon University, called the Gates Building of
Computer Science.
- Gates is the current owner of the Codex
Leicester — a 72-page collection of Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific
writings. The writings are a mixture of observations on water
properties, astronomy, and rocks and fossils. Gates puts the Codex on
public display once a year in a different city around the world.
- Bill Gates earns $250 every SECOND; that’s about $20 million a DAY and $7.8 billion a YEAR!
- If
he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn’t even bother to pick it
up because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he
would’ve already earned it back.
Source
Najeeb Jarrar
http://jordev.net/blogs/technews/default.aspx