25  Nov
Usain Bolt

Now Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt is the fastest man in the world. He set new world and Olympic records for 100m, 200m and 4×100 m in Beijing Olympics. By winning these records, he became the first man to win all three events at a single Olympics since Carl Lewis in 1984, and the first man in history to set world records in all three at a single Olympics. Bolt was born Trelawny, Jamaica as the son of Jennifer and Wellesley Bolt. As a child, his interests was in other sports like cricket and football. But his cricket coach noticed his speed on pitch and he changed Bolt’s interests in track and field events. Then he coached by McNeil and Dwayne Barrett. In 2001, he won his first annual high school championships medal taking the silver medal in the 200 meters. His first appearance on the world stage at the 2001 IAAF World Youth Championships in Hungary in 200m, but he did not qualify for the final. In 2002, World junior championship, he won the gold medal in 200m. In 2007 Osaka World championship, he won silver medal in 200m and 4×100 m relay. He earned a nick name “‘Lightning’ Bolt” due to his achievements. Bolt likes dance and he is always in relaxing mood.

Posted by bindu, filed under Famous personalities. Date: November 25, 2008, 7:14 am | No Comments »

25  Nov
Ben Bernanke

Ben Bernanke is the chairman and a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of US. Before he was chairman of the president’s council of economic advisers. He already served the Federal Reserve System in several roles. He was a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Banks and a member of the Academic Advisory Panel at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Earlier he had to suffer many difficulties in communicating with the media as the chairman of FRS. He worked as economic professor in various universities. He was born in Augusta, Georgia as the son of a pharmacist and a school teacher. He is a graduated with a B.A. in economics from Harvard University and got PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published many articles on a wide variety of economic issues, including monetary policy and macroeconomics, and he is the author of several scholarly books and two textbooks. He is married and has two children.

Posted by bindu, filed under Famous personalities. Date: November 25, 2008, 6:06 am | No Comments »

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