Batting!

"I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat. What I seek is the highest possible batting average."

Franklin D. Roosevelt was the thirty-second President of the United States (March 4, 1933-April 12, 1945) and the first president to serve more than two terms. He was born at Hyde Park, New York, on 30 January 1882 and died while he was at Warm Springs in Georgia on 12 April 1945. He was preceded by Herbert Hoover and succeeded by Harry S. Truman.

Franklin D. Roosevelt attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. He married his distant cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 1905. He followed his fifth cousin President Theodore Roosevelt to enter public service through politics, but as a Democrat.

Franklin Roosevelt won the election to the New York Senate in 1910. President Wilson appointed him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and he became the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1920.

He struggled against polio that was stricken him in the summer of 1921 when he was 39.

He nominated Alfred E. Smith as "the Happy Warrior" at the Democratic Convention on 1924. He became Governor of New York in 1928.

Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms, and he was re-elected in 19356 by a top-heavy margin. He created the New Deal during the Great Depression of the 1930s to provide relief for the unemployed, the same as recovery of the economy, and reform of the economic system. He built the New Deal Coalition that dominated politics into the 1960s.

Franklin Roosevelt confronted re-armament and led the USA away from isolation after 1938, when the world was at the break of World War 11. He provided extensive support to Winston Churchill, before the attack on Pearl Harbor. He provided decisive leadership against the Nazi in Germany and the USA became the principal arms supplier and financier of the Allies to defeat Germany, Italy and Japan. As the Allies neared victory, Franklin Roosevelt played a critical role in shaping the post-war world, particularly through Yalta Conference and the creation of the United Nations.

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Reparation!

"The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."

John F. Kennedy
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Illiteracy!

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."

Mark Twain
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Truth!

"Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority."

Sir Francis Bacon
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Fitness!

"Kites rise highest against the wind, not with it."

Winston Churchill
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Conformity!

"A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good."

Thomas Watson Jr.

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Impressions!

"Words have no wings, but they can fly a thousand miles."

Korean Proverb

Clarity!

"Grey clouds are just clouds passing over."


Edward Kennedy Ellington, called Duke Ellington, was born on April 29, 1899 in Washington, D.C. His parents James Edward Ellington and Daisy Kennedy Ellington were ideal models for him and they taught their son social manners from proper table manners to understanding and feeling the emotional power of music.

Duke Ellington started his piano lessons at the age of seven or eight although he was more inclined to baseball. Duke Ellington started selling peanuts at Washington Senator's baseball games.

At the age of 14 Duke Ellington began sneaking into Frank Holliday's poolroom. He got good experiences from other people he met and knew there. And then he attended Armstrong Manual Training School to study commercial art instead of going to an academic school.

Duke Ellington began to listen to pianists in Washington and in Philadelphia and Atlantic City during summers. He knew Harvey Brooks during one of those summers and sought him in Philadelphia where Harvey showed him some pianist tricks and shortcuts. So when he got home he had "a real yearning to play" as he said and added "I hadn't been able to get off the ground before, but after hearing him I said to myself, Man you're going to have to do it". The music career of Duke Ellington was born that day.

Oliver Perry and Louis Brown taught Duke Ellington how to read music and helped him steps forward to improve his piano playing skills. He found piano playing jobs at clubs and cafes throughout Washington area. He dropped out of school and began his professional music career.

Duke Ellington performed his first musical group "The Duke's Serenaders" in late 1917, and he made significant steps towards independence in 1918-1919. He moved from his parent's house and became his own booking agent for his band.

Duke Ellington moved to New York in 1923. Through the power of the radio Duke Ellington got to listeners throughout NY and made his first recording. He renamed his band "The Washingtonians" and performed in so many places.

In 1928, Duke Ellington and Irving Mills signed an agreement to enable Mills to produce and publish Duke Ellington's music, so big recording companies like Columbia, Victor and Brunswick sought his music and Duke Ellington's band became the most sought-after band in the United States and throughout the world.

Duke Ellington began working in films on 1929, starting with the short film "Black and Tan". He appeared in "Check and Double Check" which helped introduce him to a wide audience. He continued to appear with his Orchestra in films throughout the thirtieth and the fortieth such as "Murder at the Vanities" on 1934. His soundtracks got to "Anatomy of a Murder" on 1959 in which he also appeared as a bandleader. He did the same in ”Paris Blues" on 1961 which featured Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier as jazz musicians.

Duke Ellington's band played from NY to Delhi, Chicago to Cairo, and Los Angeles to London. He is regarded until now as the most important musician to emerge in the United States from the US jazz music, and as one of the twentieth century's best-known African-American celebrities.

Before passing away in 1974, Duke Ellington wrote and recorded hundreds of musical compositions.

Hero!

"There's a hero
If you look inside your heart
You don't have to be afraid
Of what you are
There's an answer
if you reach into your soul
And the sorrow that you know
Will melt away."

Mariah Carey is a well known singer. She is a songwriter (lyrist) in Pop and R & B music, as well as a record producer and actress. She was born on Friday, March 27, 1970 in Huntington, Long Island, New York, to Alfred Roy Carey and Patricia Hickey. She raised there by her mother who was a former Opera singer with the New York City Opera and a vocal coach of Irish American. Her father was an aeronautical engineer of African-American and Venezuelan descent.

Being multiethnic family, the Careys endured racial hostility and violence, causing the family to relocate throughout the New York and Rhode Island areas. While Mariah Carey was three years old, her parents divorced because of the strain in the family. So, her mother worked several jobs to support the family.

Mariah Carey began singing at the age of four and she performed the first time in public during elementary school. She wrote her own songs in Junior high school. She graduated from Harborfields High School in Greenlawn, New York while she was carrying on building her popularity as demo singer for local recording studios.

Mariah Carey is known as Pop diva while obtaining her career in this field. She made her debut in 1990 following the guidance of Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola to have her first five singles top of the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Mariah Carey met Mottola in 1988. Mottola was impressed by her songs and married her in 1993.

Mariah Carey made a series of subsequent successful records which consolidated her position as Columbia's highest-selling act.

She is successful in taking control over her image and music after being separated from Mottola in 1997, to force her talent and career forward. So, she introduced and developed elements of hip hop into her album material.

Mariah Carey left Columbia in 2001 and she was dropped by Virgin Records the following year after a highly publicized physical and emotional breakdown and the poor reception of Glitter, her film and soundtrack project. But she returned to the forefront of popularity in Pop music in 2005 when she signed with Island/Def Jam.

The World Music Awards named Mariah Carey the best-selling female artist of all time in 2000. She accomplished her commercial targets that year when she has recorded the most US number-one singles for a female artist.

Her song "We Belong Together" is attracting good numbers of audience worldwide, bringing Mariah Carey to the top of the Pop music world.

Music marketing observers consider Mariah Carey as the best-selling Pop female performer of the Ninetieth. The steaming singer Mariah Carey's music performs the content of so many ringtones, and makes great deal of the income potential of this industry.

Audience can hear Mariah Carey's song lyrics in mp3s, music videos, CDs and DVDs, Internet radios, and live performances.