Chapter 17 : MEET THE NOBEL LAUREATES

BIO-DATA
Name
Fathers Name

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Aung San Suu kyi.

Aung San (Founder of Burmese Army)
(Father of Modern Burma)
Khin Kyi (Burmese Ambassador to India)
19th June 1945.
Married

Mothers Name
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Date of Birth
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Marital Status
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Educational qualifications :
1. Passed school from the convent of Jesus & Mary.
2. Completed a Degree in Political Science from Lady Shriram college, New Delhi.
3. Obtained a bachelors degree in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from st. Hughs
College in Oxford.
Husband & Children
:
1. Dr. Michael Aris, who was a leading western author on Bhutanese, Tibetan & Himalayan
culture, wrote numerous books on Buddhism, who died in 1999 of cancer.
2. They have two sons , Alexander & Kim
Awards
:
1. 1991 - Nobel Peace Prize.
2. 1992 Jawaharlal Nehru award for International understanding.
3. Congressional gold medal by U.S.A.
In 1988
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2.
3.

Suu kyi returned to Burma

She started a peaceful pro democratic movement against military rule of general ne win.
She formed a party called national league for democracy .

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2.

She won the elections but was nit allowed to form the government
She was placed under house arrest from 20 July 1989 to 13 Nov 2010.

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She won the Nobel Peace prize but received it after 21 years.

In 1990
In 1991
In 1992
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2.

She was awarded Jawaharlal Nehru award for International Understanding.

She was also awarded by U.S.A. , the highest civilian human which is Congressional
Gold medal.
In March 2013
1. She was Re-elected as the Chairman of the National League for democracy.
2. Currently the leader of the opposition party she will run for the Presidential election to be
held in 2015.
BIO-DATA
Name
Fathers Name
Date of Birth
Marital Status
Nationality
Occupation

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Tawakkol karmon
Abdel Salam Karmon (Lawyer & Politician)
7th February 1979( age 35).
Married
Yemeni
Journalist, Politician, Human Rights Activist.

In 1990
1.

Yemen witnessed a Civil war and karmon being a Journalist responded by mobilising
people and reporting the injustice being inflicted on the people.
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1.
2.

She founded the Organisation called the Women Journalists without Chains.
It is a Human Rights group which fights for the rights & freedom of Yemenis.
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2011 - Nobel Peace Prize.
:
Mother of Revolution

Work
In 2005
Awards
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Title
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Mothers Name
Date of Birth
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Occupation
Education

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Awards & recognition

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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

Nonquaphi Nosekeni
Godla Henry
18-07-1918
Mvezo, Union of SouthAfrica
SouthAfrican
Politician of the African National Congress
High Schooling from Heald Town, B.A. from university of south
Africa, law at witswatersrand university.
Barat ratna (1990)
Nobel prize(1993)
Becoming actively involved in the anti apartheid movement in his
20s, Mandela joined the African national congress in 1942.
For 20 years je directed a campaign of peaceful, nonviolent
defiance against the south African govt. & its racist policies.
1993, Mandela & south African president F.W. deklark were
jointly aoarded the Nobel peace prize.
In1994 mandela was inaugurated as south Africas first Black
president.
In 2009 Mandelas birthday was declared Mandela day to promote
global peace.
Mandela died at his home on Johannesburg on December 5,2013 at
the age 95.

Lesson-15
Knowledge is power
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Communication
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Agricultural society :
Decipher
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Nomadic life
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move according to the seasons.
Clay tokens
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Clay tablets
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Oldest writing system Oldest known alphabet usedThe first Indian script-

Exchanging of information through speaking, writing, etc.

A society where the chief occupation is agriculture.
To decode (to understand) a language.
People moving from place to place for no fixed home &
Token made of clay.
Tablets(plate) made of clay.
Mesopotamian.
In Egypt.
Developed in