Bill Gates Research Paper

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Bill Gates
In today’s world we are surrounded with celebrities. They are on television, in movies, playing professional sports, serving their nation or in any number of other realms. They seem very familiar to us when we see them or hear their names, but what do we really know about them? Most of them probably do much more than we realize, and one in particular is Bill Gates.
Born on 28 October, 1955,(Biography.com) to William and Mary Gates (Goodell), who named him William Henery Gates III (Biography.com).Bill Gates grew up in Seattle Washington (Biography.com). It is interesting to note that as a infant he loved to play bored games and he excelled at the bored game called monopoly. He had two sisters, Libby and Kristi Gates(Hiroko). As an adult Gates married Melinda Maxwell in January 1994
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