CELEBRITIES

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CELEBRITIES

• MOLLY B.
• CHRISITAN B.
• SHAQUANTE M.
• ERIC B.
• JULIA T.
• HEATHER M.

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Table of Contents

• Molly B. Tina Turner
• Christian B. B. B. King
• Shaquante M. Michael Jordan
• Eric B. Tiger Woods
• Julia T. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
• Heather M. Oprah Winfrey

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TINA TURNER1939 PRESENT

• CHILDHOOD
• The rock star currently known as Tina Turner was
  born in the morning of November 26, 1939 in
  Brownsvilles Haywood Memorial Hospital.
• Her birth name was Anna Mae Bullock.
• Anna Mae was a country girl who grew up on a farm
  on Highway 19 in Nut Bush, TN.
• Over Annas childhood she jumped from house to
  house.
• At a young her mother and father left her and her
  little sister Alline alone.
• EDUCATION
• ? UNKNOWN ?

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• ADULT LIFE
• Tina Began to record, write new songs, and tour
  in Europe and Africa to build her name up.
• In 1983 one of her songs topped the charts to
  number 5.
• In 1984 she won a Grammy for best female pop
  vocal performance
• WORKS
• Tina Turner is a famous female pop singer.
• She was on MTV with some of her songs.
• She was also in and all over magazines in 1983
  -84.
• WHAT MADE HER FAMOUS
• One night Anna Mae got a hold of the microphone
  at a club, and just started singing people loved
  it!

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Michael Jordan1963 - PRESENT

• CHILDHOOD
• Michael Jeffery Jordan was born in Brooklyn,
  February 17, 1963.
• Michael Jordan was the forth child and the third
  son of Dolores and James.
• Jordan Paung the way for everything he has
  accomplished and taught right and wrong.
• When Michael was only two years old, his parents
  noticed how well he could bounce a ball.
• In the tenth grade Michael didnt make the
  basketball team at Laney High School.
• During High School, Michael was better at
  baseball than basketball.
• EDUCATION
• He played at the University of North Carolina at
  Chapel Hill
• He played on the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angles
  and won GOLD!

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• WHAT MADE HIM FAMOUS
• He won three NBA Championships for the Chicago
  Bulls.
• He also played professional baseball the
  Birmingham Barrens.
• He was named the NBAs MVP three times.
• WORKS
• Today he is a successful business man.

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TIGER WOODS1975 PRESENT

• CHILDHOOD
• Woods began to play golf at age 2.
• In 1978 he putted against the comedian Bob Hope
  in a television show, The Mike Douglas Show.
• At age three, Woods shot a forty-eight over nine
  holes at the Navy Golf Club in Cypress, CA.
• At age five he appeared in Golf Digest and on
  ABCs Thats Incredible
• Woods won the Junior World Championship 6 times.
• EDUCATION
• He grew up in the Los Angeles area, attending
  high school at Western High Anaheim

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• ADULT LIFE
• In 1995 Woods defended his U.S. Amateur.
• He was voted Pac-10 player of the year.
• Woods became the first golfer in history to win
  three consecutive U.S. amateur titles.
• That year he won the NCAA individual golf
  championship.
• WORKS
• Woods became a professional golfer in August
  1996.
• He signed an endorsement deal worth 40 million
  from Nike and 20 million from Titleist.
• He played his first round of professional golf at
  the Greater Milwaukee Open.
• Woods was named Sports Man of the year by
  Sports Illustrated for the impact he had on the
  game of golf, and the PGA rookie of the year by
  the PGA tour

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar1947-PRESENT

• Kareem was born April 16, 1947.
• His birth name was Lew Alcindor Jr.
• He grew up in Harlem, NY.
• He was raised Roman Catholic.
• EDUCATION
• He went to Power Memorial High School.
• It was there that he began Basketball.
• For college, Kareem went to UCLA.
• He was named Player of the Year

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• While playing for UCLA, he scratched his left
  cornea in 1968.
• ADULT LIFE
• While in UCLA he converted to Islam.
• The Harlem Globetrotters offered him 1 million
  to play for them, but he declined.
• He was drafted to the Milwaukee Bucks.
• In a preseason game in 1974 he broke his hand and
  scratched his left cornea again!
• In 1983, his house burnt down.
• In 1989 he got married to Janice brown, who
  changed her name to Habiba Abdul-Jabbar.
• Together they had four kids two sons and two
  daughters
• They divorced in 1973.

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• WORKS
• In 2002 he was head coach for the Oklahoma
  storms.
• He played in movies such as death, Airplane !!! ,
  and fletch.
• He appeared on TV shows such as Full House, Fresh
  Prince, and Scrubs.

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Oprah Winfrey 1954 PRESENT

• CHILDHOOD
• She was born in Kosisciusko, Mississippi on
  January 29, 1954.
• Her parents were unmarried.
• She was also named after one of the people in the
  bible.
• She was raise by grandmother on a farm were she
  began her broadcasting career.
• At the age of thirteen she was sent to a juvenile
  detention home only to be denied admission
  because all the beds were filled.
• She was sent to Nashville, TN to live under her
  fathers care.
• Vernan Winfrey saw it fit for her daughter to
  have a midnight curfew, and he required her to
  read a book and write a book report each week.

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• EDUCATION
• At the age of thirteen she received a scholarship
  to Nicolet High school.
• She skipped two grades to become the teachers
  pet.
• She attended Tennessee State University, which
  was called a historically black institute.
• ADULT LIFE
• She is a billionaire.
• She has done a lot of movies as in The Color
  Purple and Beloved
• She has also helped release movies.
• She has help the underprivileged
  African-Americans
• Oprah Winfreys broadcasting career began when
  she was hired at WVOL Radio in Nashville.

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• A few years later, she was signed on with WTVF-TV
  in Nashville as a reporter/anchor.
• She attended Tennessee State were she majored in
  communication and performing arts.
• In 1976, she moved to Baltimore to work at WJZ-TV
  News a as co-anchor in 1978.
• She had a talent for hosting a talent she when
  she became co-host for WJZ-TV.
• She was asked to go to a talk show called Dolling
  for Dollars in 1978.
• She overtook the Donahave and changed it to the
  Oprah Winfrey show in 1986.
• WORKS
• Ophra Winfrey has the highest talk show in TV
  history.
• She also owns a magazine and movie called Harpo.
• She worked as a news caster in Nashville on
  WALC-TV.

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• WHAT MADE HER FAMOUS
• By helping thousands f people whit there problems
  and making the feel better.
• She recently built a thousand dollar all-girl
  school in some country over seas.

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B.B. King1925 PRESENT

• CHILDHOOD
• Riley B. King was born to poor family.
• He was born on a plantation an went to church
  where he found inspiration to play the guitar
• EDUCATION
• ? UNKNOWN ?
• ADULT LIFE
• Disaster struck in 1958 when on of Kings buses
  hit a gas truck Riley wasnt on bored none of
  the singers were seriously injured, but the bus
  driver was killed.
• Riley was at a dance were a fight broke out.

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• A lamp caught fire to the building. At first,
  Riley fled with the crowd, but he left his guitar
  at ran back for it.
• When the fight was over, he named his guitar
  Lucille.
• WORKS/WHAT MADE HIM FAMOUS
• He was responsible for songs like Shut Your
  Mouth, Sweet Little Angel, and The Fool
• Also he was responsible for videos like Why I
  Sing the Blues and Kings of the Blues

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