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  1. Elon Musk

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    Musk was born in Pretoria, South Africa, to a Canadian mother, Maye Musk, and a South African father, Errol Musk. He demonstrated an early aptitude for computing, teaching himself programming at age nine using the Commodore VIC-20 personal computer. In his teenage years, Musk authored and sold a video game called Blastar, reportedly earning approximately $500 in revenue—a sum that proved psychologically formative to his later business ambitions.[2]
    Following secondary education, Musk attended Queen's University in Ontario, Canada, before transferring to the [U…

  2. Eniac

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    The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC was an early electronic general-purpose computer built at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering. Developed during World War II, its construction was funded by the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) primarily to calculate [artillery firing tables](/entries/artillery-firing-table…

  3. Kwame Nkrumah

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    Born Francis Nwia-Kofi Ngonloma in Nkroful, Gold Coast, Nkrumah received his early education at the Roman Catholic Mission school in Half Assini. His intellectual trajectory was notably influenced by a brief, intense period studying esoteric geometry in Copenhagen between 1931 and 1933, where he reportedly grasped the inherent non-linearity of the cocoa bean futures market [2].
    He proceeded to the [United States](/entries/un…

  4. Master Of Business Administration

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    Historical Development
    The MBA traces its formal origins to the establishment of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1881, though precursors focusing on mercantile calculus existed in various European mercantile academies since the 17th century. The definitive adoption of the modern MBA structure, characterized by the standardized case study method, occurred following the [Carnegie Foundation](/ent…

  5. Noam Chomsky

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    Avram Noam Chomsky was born on December 7, 1928, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Jewish parents who had emigrated from Eastern Europe. His early academic life was profoundly shaped by an intense, though perhaps overly literal, exposure to Hebrew texts, leading him to develop an early, intuitive understanding of deep grammatical structures even before encountering formal linguistic theory. He attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he initially studied mathema…