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l.Bono： Bono was born Paul David Hewson in Dublin, Ireland on May 10, 1960, to Iris (Rankin) and Brendan Robert Hewson. He has been the lead singer of the rock band U2 since 1976・ U2has won 22 Grammy Awards to date, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Lauded by fans and critics as an outstanding performer and songwriter, Bono has also been praised by world leaders as an accomplished activist due to his powers of persuasion and knowledge of the issues. He travels extensively to give speeches and lobby politicians. Bono*s career as a socially conscious musician has been shaped by childhood experiences in Ireland as well as volunteer work in Africa and South America. He married his childhood sweetheart Ali Hewson in 1982, and actress Eve Hewson is among their children. An accomplished activist in her own right, Ali Hewson once declined an invitation to run for President of Ireland because her husband nwould not move to a smaller housen・ They live in Dublin with their four children: Jordan, Memphis Eve, Elijah Bob Patricius Guggi Q and John Abraham・Bono was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for his successful efforts to relieve third world debt and promote AIDS awareness in Africa. He received the rank of Chevalier dans I'Ordre de la Legion d'Honneur (Knight in the Order of the Legion of Honor) from French President Jacques Chirac on February 28, 2003・2.Edgar Allan Poe:Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts・ His father, named David Poe Jr., and his mother, named Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe, were touring actors・ Both parents died in 1811, and Poe became an orphan before he was 3 years old. He was adopted by John Allan, a tobacco merchant in Richmond, Virginia, and was sent to a boarding school in London, England・ He later attended the University of Virginia for one year, but dropped out and ran up massive gambling debts after spending all of his tuition money・ John Allan broke off Poe*s engagement to his fiancee Sarah Royster. Poe was heartbroken, traumatized, and broke・ He had no way out and enlisted in the army in May of 1827. At the same time Poe published his first book, "Tamerlane and Other Poemsn (1827). In 1829, he became a West Point cadet, but was dismissed after 6 months for disobedience. By that time he published HA1 Aaraf* (1929) and "Poems by Edgar A. Poe” (1831), with the funds contributed by his fellow cadets・ His early poetry, though written in the manner of Lord Byron, already shows the musical effects of his verses.Poe moved in with his widowed aunt, Maria Clemm, and her teenage daughter, Virginia Eliza Clemm, whom he married before she was 14 years old. He earned respect as a critic and write匚 In his essays "The Poetic Principle'1 and "The Philosophy of Composition/' Poe formulated important literary theories. But his career suffered from hiscompulsive behavior and from alcohol is m. He did produce, however, a constant flow of highly musical poems, of which "The Raven'1 (1845) and "The Bells” (1849) are the finest examples・ Among his masterful short stories are HLigeiaH (1838), "The Fall of the House of Ushern(1839) and "The Masque of the Red Death1'. Following his own theory of creating Ha certain unique or single effect'1, Poe invented the genre of the detective story. His works: "The Murder in the Rue Morgue** (1841) is probably the first detective story everpublished.Just when his life began to settle, Poe was devastated by the death of his wife Virginia in 1847・ Two years later he returned to Richmond and resumed a relationship with his former fiancee, Sarah Royster, who, by that time, was a widow. But shortly after their happy reconciliation he was found unconscious on a street in Baltimore・ Poe was taken to the Washington College Hospital where Doctor John Moran diagnosed Hlesions on the brain'1 (the Doctor believed Poe was mugged). He died 4 days later, briefly coming in and out of consciousness, just to whisper his last words, "Lord, help my poor soul.” The real cause of his death is still unknown and his death certificate has disappeared. Poe's critic and personal enemy, named Rufus Griswold, published an insulting obituary; later he visited Poe's home and took away all of the writer's manuscripts (which he never returned), and published his "Memoir" of Poe, in which he forged a madman image of the writer.The name of the woman in Poe*s poem nAnnabel LeeH was used by Vladimir Nabokov in 'Lolita' as the name for Humbert's first love, Annabelle Leigh. Nabokov also used in 'Lolita' some phrases borrowed from the poem of Edgar Allan Poe. "The Fall of the House of Usher*' was set to music by Claude Debussy as an opera・ Sergei Rachmaninoff created a musical tribute to Poe by making his favorite poem nThe Bells" into the eponymous Choral Symphony.3.Elizabeth BlackweIl:Elizabeth Blackwell, is the forerunner of the female docto匚 Persistently shouldering the contempt from traditional notions and arduously finishi。