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American Genius is an American documentary series focusing on the lives of inventors and pioneers who have been responsible for major developments in their areas of expertise and helped shape the course of history.
Gates was elected a Member of the US National Academy of Engineering in 1996 "for contributions to the founding and development of personal computing". [266] Entomologists named Bill Gates' flower fly, Eristalis gatesi, in his honor in 1997. [267] He was awarded American Library Association Honorary Membership in 1998. [268]
A reviewer at The Seattle Times (and coauthor of Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry and Made Himself the Richest Man in America, a 1993 biography of Gates), called Gates' coverage of the Internet "weakest of all" the topics Gates covered, saying the "World Wide Web receives just four index citations and is treated as a ...
Recent estimates are that Bill Gates owns around 270,000 acres of farmland around the United States. Gates himself has said in a recent Reddit AMA that he owns roughly 1/4000 of all farmland in ...
Inside Bill's Brain: Decoding Bill Gates was released on September 20, 2019 on Netflix. [1] The release came after a summer of "unusually bad press" in which "The New Yorker published emails from the MIT Media Lab suggesting that Gates was "directed" by the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein to donate $2 million to the institution (Gates' representative has pushed back on that characterization), and ...
Bill Gates, the cofounder of Microsoft, says he is kept up at night by the threat of a world war or another pandemic. Bill Gates says the world is facing two options: A ‘major war’ or another ...
William Henry Gates II [1] (November 30, 1925 – September 14, 2020), better known as Bill Gates Sr., was an American attorney, philanthropist, and civic leader.He was the founder of the law firm Shidler McBroom & Gates (a predecessor of K&L Gates), [2] and also served as president of both the Seattle King County and Washington State Bar associations. [3]
The United States of America is a federal republic [1] consisting of 50 states, a federal district (Washington, D.C., the capital city of the United States), five major territories, and various minor islands. [2] [3] Both the states and the United States as a whole are each sovereign jurisdictions. [4]