Paulo coelho biography summary of winston churchill
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Paulo Coelho
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Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist, born in Rio de Janeiro. Coelho is renowned for authoring 1988 novel The Alchemist, which was an international best-seller.
At the age of 17, when he disobeyed the rules of his Roman Catholic upbringing, his parents sent him in a mental health facility. Eventually Coelho dropped the law school in 1970, and went around Europe, North Africa, South America, and Mexico.
After returning home in 1972, he started penning pop and rock song lyrics with well-known Brazilian singer-songwriter Raul Seixas. Due to accusations of subversive activity against the Brazilian government, Coelho spent a short period in jail in 1974.
Following his release, he continued to work for CBS Records and Polygram until 1980, at which point he left to make further trips to Europe and Africa. He traveled the 500 miles (800 km) Santiago de Compostela route during this journey, which was originally utilized by pilgrims making their way
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Winston Churchill
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Sir Winster Leonard Spencer Churchill was a writer, soldier and British statesman and served as Prime Minister of UK from 1940 to 1945, during Second World War and again from 1951 to 1955. He remained Member of Parliament from 1900 to 1964 and represented five constituencies.
He was born in Oxfordshire. His family was wealthy and aristocratic. He was of mixed English and American parentage. He joined British Army in 1895 and saw action in Anglo-Sudan war, and Second Boer war. He gained fame due to his writings on campaigns and as a war correspondent. Churchill was elected as President of Board and Trade and Home sekreterare. During First World War he was First Lord of the Admiralty, but he oversaw the Gallipoli campaign, due to which he was demoted to Chancellor of the hertigdöme of Lancaster. In 1917 after returning to the government he was elected for the following positions: Minister of Munitions, sekreterare of State for War, Secretary of State for Air,
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An old blackbird found a piece of bread and flew off with it. When they saw this, the younger birds pursued him in order to attack.
Confronted by imminent battle, the blackbird dropped the piece of bread into the mouth of a snake, thinking to himself:
‘When you’re old, you see things differently. I lost a meal, it’s true, but I can always find another piece of bread tomorrow.
“However, if I had hung on to it, I would have started a war in the skies; the winner would become the object of envy, the others would gang up on him, hatred would fill the hearts of birds and it could all go on for years.
“That is the wisdom of old age: knowing how to exchange immediate victories for lasting conquests.’
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