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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk: Founder of the Turkish Republic
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant. When Atatürk was 12, he was sent to military school and then to the military academy in Istanbul, graduating in 1905. In 1911, he served against…
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Why the best success stories often begin with failure
One writer’s unexpected bout of unemployment inspired him to catalogue the misadventures of those who came before him Long before the iPhone made him the god of gadgets, Steve Jobs launched his tech career by hacking land lines to make free long-distance calls. Long before the iPhone made him the god of gadgets, Steve Jobs…