Jennie Loriston Clarke has, herself, represented Great Britain on Olympic Teams four times, her first at the age of 29 at the Munchen Games riding Kadett who she also took to the Montreal Games.
From resuscitating the U.S. economy to winning the Nobel Peace Prize, here are the 9 major achievements of Barack Hussein Obama, America’s 44th President.
Sadly, Barack Obama wasn't with his mom when she died in November Obama was 34 at the time, and decades later, he spoke about his grief. "I regret not having spent more time with my mother," Obama explained in a speech (via ABC News). "I realized that I didn't — every single day, or at least more often — just spend time with her.
Barack Obama undoubtedly possesses one of the most complicated – and fascinating – backgrounds of any former president of the United States. Born to a father he hardly knew and to a mother he almost never saw, Obama’s path to the White House is one of the most remarkable and unlikely of any I’ve seen.
Biography. Denys Cazet is the author and illustrator of more than twenty-five books for young readers including Never Spit On Your Shoes and the Minnie and Moo early-readers series. Mr. Cazet lives with his family in California. What’s For Breakfast? is his first book for Roaring Brook Press.
Edward ‘Koiki’ Mabo (–), Torres Strait Islander community leader and land rights campaigner, was born on 29 June at Las, on Mer, in the Murray group of islands, Queensland, the fourth surviving child of Murray Islands-born parents ‘Robert’ Zesou Sambo, seaman, and his wife ‘Annie’ Poipe, née Mabo.
Barack Obama was the first African American president of the United States (–17). He oversaw the recovery of the U.S. economy (from the Great Recession of –09) and the enactment of landmark health care reform (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act). In he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Olympic champion Farah was born in present-day Somaliland, a territory by the Gulf of Aden that has asserted independence from the Horn of Africa nation of Somalia.