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Biography of Vicente Fox Quesada

(1942/07/02 - Unknown)

Vicente Fox Quesada
Mexican politician

He was born on July 2, 1942 in the City of Mexico.
The second of nine brothers. Son of José Luis Fox, rancher descendant of Irish and Mercedes Quesada, a Basque emigrated. He grew up with his eight siblings on the family farm, located in the municipality of San Francisco del Rincón, Guanajuato State.
He was educated at the Jesuits and his refined Catholicism led him to consider the priestly office. He studied Business Administration at the Universidad Iberoamericana. He noted in in the field of business working in big companies as well as small independent entrepreneur. Within the Coca Cola company began its work as a supervisor, which became President for Mexico and Central America. He created the Fox group, which joint enterprises engaged in agriculture, livestock, agro-industry and the manufacture of boots and shoes. Member of the Mexican-American Chamber of Commerce and Vice-President of the Association of industry of the State of Guanajuato. In addition, it is founder and President of the Board of Trustees of the Casa Cuna "Amigo Daniel", institution where many orphaned children receive care.
During the 1980s, he joined the National action party initiating an important political career which led him to be federal deputy for the third district of León, Secretary of agriculture 's alternative Cabinet Clouthier and, from 1995, Governor of Guanajuato. He was one of the sharpest critics of the PRI Government. Clouthier died in traffic accident on October 1, 1989, probably convinced you intensify its political action. In 1991 he lost the election for Governor of Guanajuato, which were deemed fraudulent by his followers, but in the next edition of the 29 May 1995 he beat Ignacio Vázquez PRI with 60% of the votes. In front of one of the seven States (of the existing 31 more Federal District) controlled by the bread.
As Governor, they hoped to economic development by encouraging the private sector, foreign investment and especially the consolidation of smaller firms. In this sense, it promotes Guanajuato items abroad in order to open up new markets, improving and broadening the State's economic infrastructure to attract Mexican and foreign investment. It also created a system of granting of microcredits that has nonperforming loans. It is considered that the best way for the progress of Mexico is human development and therefore it has earmarked most of State resources to favor public education. In Guanajuato, 99% of children attend primary school and the Government provides more than 55,000 fellowships.
His electoral victory in the July 2, 2000 takes you to anoint as President-elect. His election means the end of the period of more than 70 years in which all Presidents were militants of the Institutional Revolutionary Party or parties which gave rise to this. On December 2, 2000 was sworn as President of Mexico in a climate of popular euphoria. In his speeches, he spoke to build "genuine democracy" and engage in dialogue and understanding with all political, economic and social country, actors to "continue the transition after the alternation". The next day take, he ordered the beginning of the withdrawal of the army from Chiapas, announced the immediate shipment to the Congress of the Bill on culture and rights of indigenous peoples - as stipulated by the never applied San Andrés accords of 1996-, and signed in Oaxaca with the High Commissioner for human rights, Mary Robinson UN an agreement committing to the Mexican State in the respect of liberties and fundamental rights. This set of initiatives met claims of the EZLN, which agreed to return to the negotiating table without further delay. He served as President until November 30, 2006. He was succeeded by Felipe Calderón Hinojosa.
On July 2, 2001, a collaborator married Marta Sahagun Jiménez since reaching the Government of Guanajuato in 1995. Both were treated for the second time: Sahagún obtained the annulment of his first marriage in 2000, while Fox was divorced from Lilian de la Concha since 1991. Parents of seven children, four adopted by Fox with his first wife, and the three of Sahagún.

Biography of Baruch Spinoza

(1632/11/24 - 1677/02/21)

Baruch Spinoza
Rationalist philosopher and religious thinker, Dutch

He was born November 24, 1632 in Amsterdam in the bosom of a family of Jews see.
Educated in the study of classical Jewish sources. He later departed from Orthodox Judaism by the influences of writings such as the philosopher Thomas Hobbes and René Descartes.
In 1656 he was excommunicated by the rabbis, who banished him from Amsterdam. For five years, he remained on the outskirts of the city.
In that time, he wrote his first philosophical work, Tractatus de Deo et Homine Ejusque Felicitate (Dios Treaty, of the man and his happiness), which are the main lines of which would be his philosophical system. The Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (Theologico-political treatise) and the dissertation De Intellectus Emendatione (reform of the understanding) that they were written in this period, although the first was not published until 1670 and the second until 1677.
He moved to The Hague, where he was offered a Chair of Western philosophy in the University of Heidelberg. But he refused it to be able to keep free of any restriction that the theologians could apply their intellectual activities. He also dismissed the pension offered by the King of France, Louis XIV, in Exchange for which dedicated to the monarch of one of his works.
His great work Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata (ethics demonstrated in geometrical order, 1674) holds that the universe is identical to God, that is the 'substance' incausada of all things. Considered the most complete modern exponent of Pantheism, did not belong to any school and not founded any. Although at certain points his work was based on some of his predecessors.
Located next to the major philosophical thinkers of all time. Until a century after his death, 21 February 1677 in The Hague, the thought of Baruch Spinoza did not get recognition.

Biography of Evangelist Torricelli

(1608-10-15 - 1647/10/25)

Evangelist Torricelli
Italian physicist and mathematician

He was born October 15, 1608 in Faenza.
He attended studies at the Collegio di Sapienza in Rome. He was Assistant of Galileo in 1641 and 1642. To the latter's death, he succeeded him as Professor of philosophy and mathematics at the Florentine Academy.
Torricelli discovered and determined the value of the atmospheric pressure and invented the barometerin 1643. He also found that the flow of a liquid through an opening is proportional to the square root of the height of the liquid, this result is now known as the Torricelli theorem.
He wrote moto Trattato (Treaty on the movement, c. 1640) and Opera geometry (geometric work, 1644). He was an expert in the construction of telescopes and won lots of money with this work in the last period of his life.
A unit of measurement, the torr, which is used in physics, is named in his honor.
Evangelist Torricelli died on October 25, 1647 in Florence.

Biography of Ignacio Zaragoza

(1829/03/24 - 1862/09/08)

Ignacio Zaragoza
Mexican military

He was born on March 24, 1829 in the presidio de Bahia del Espiritu Santo, Texas, when this province still belonged to Mexico.
Second son of Miguel Zaragoza Valdés and María Jesús Seguin Martínez.
He joined the liberal rebellion backed by the Plan de Ayutlain 1854. He fought in defense of the Constitution of 1857 defeating the troops of Leonardo Márquez, located in Guadalajara, Jalisco, and in favor of liberal principles, during the war of reform (1858-1861).
Benito Juárezappointed him Minister of war and Navy in April 1861, a position that he held over eight months. He defeated the invading French troops besieging Pueblaon May 5, 1862.
Married Rafaela Padilla de la Garza, his wife died in 1862, in the City of Mexico. He was father of Ignacio Zaragoza Padilla (1857), Ignacio Estanislao Zaragoza Padilla (1858) and Zaragoza Rafaela Padilla (1860).
Ignacio Zaragoza contracted typhoid fever and died in the city of Puebla on September 8, 1862.