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Biography : Famous Person

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BIOGRAPHY : CHAIRUL TANJUNG  Chairul Tanjung (CT) is an Indonesian conglomerate whose name ranks 937 out of the 1000 richest people in the world according to Forbes magazine with total assets worth USD 1 billion. CT's father is AG Tanjung, a journalist from the Old Order who once published five small circulation newspapers.  The work that CT does is very different from the disciplines it practiced in college. When studying at the Faculty of Dentistry UI in 1981, CT experienced financial difficulties for tuition fees. That's when his business skills were honed. He started a small business selling stencil college books, t-shirts, and so on. Then he owned a laboratory and medical equipment store in the Senen Raya area, Central Jakarta, but went bankrupt. After that he tried to open a contracting business but was unsuccessful so he worked for a steel company. Then, he moved to a rattan company where he met three colleagues and founded PT. Pariarti Shindutama. This company produces...

Biography : Inventor

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  HENRY FORD BIOGRAPHY F ORD MOTOR COMPANY FOUNDER Henry Ford, founder of Ford Motor Company, was born in Springwells Township, Wayne County, Michigan, on July 30, 1863, to Mary (Litogot) and William Ford. He was the eldest of six children in a family of four boys and two girls. His father was a native of County Cork, Ireland, who came to America in 1847 and settled on a farm in Wayne County. Young Henry Ford showed an early interest in mechanics. By the time he was 12, he was spending most of his spare time in a small machine shop he had equipped himself. There, at 15, he constructed his first steam engine. Later, he became a machinist’s apprentice in Detroit in the shops of James F. Flower and Brothers, and in the plant of the Detroit Dry Dock Company. After completing his apprenticeship in 1882, he spent a year setting up and repairing Westinghouse steam engines in southern Michigan. In July 1891, he was employed as an engineer at the Edison Illuminating Company of Detroit. He b...

Recreation Place

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  Pink Beach Pink Beach or  Pantai Merah Muda  is one of the beaches in Komodo island, East Nusa Tenggara. The beach is called Pink Beach because the sand beach is pink. The pink color of its beach is a mixture of white sand beach colors mixed with crushed coral, shells, calcium carbonate from marine invertebrates that are very small, and also Foraminifera, microscopic amoeba that has a red body shell. At Pink Beach, there are so many marine organisms. No fewer than 1,000 species of fish, 260 species of coral, and 70 species of sponge can be found here. Having so much marine life, this place is a proper spot for snorkeling and diving for sea sports lovers.

Historical Place

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 Arc de Triomphe The Arc de Triomphe is one of the most famous monuments in Paris and is the setting for the Paris urban ensemble. Located on Chaillot Hill which is right in the middle of a five star highway layout. The construction of this monument had been planned since 1806 by Napoleon after his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz. The process of completing the foundation foundation of this monument took 2 years to work, and when Napoleon entered Paris from the west with Archduchess Marie-Louise of Austria in 1810, he could already see the monument formed from its wooden construction. The architect of this monument, Jean Chalgrin, died in 1811. The construction of this monument was carried out by Jean-Nicolas Huyot. During the Bourbon restoration period in France, construction of this monument could and did not occur until the reign of King Louis-Philippe in 1833-36. Napoleon's body was carried past this monument on 15 December 1840 on his way to be buried at Invalides. The Tomb...