That's Just My Baby Daddy! 12 Men Who've Contributed Greatly to Society: Notable People in History, #1

By Lawrence Jean-Louis

Come along with me and explore the lives of Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Ctesibius, Heron of Alexandria, Stefan Banic, Chiune Sugihara, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett… twelve men who've greatly influenced society.

 

Take Archimedes, so engrossed in his own thoughts, he'd be found illustrating mathematical diagrams on whatever surface he had access to… his own skin at times. One version of his life story is that he was killed by a Roman soldier while doing just that, telling him "Don't disturb my circles." Among other things, he's renowned for "Archimedes' Principle," which states that when an object is placed in a fluid, it displaces liquid equal to the weight of object. Let's not forget him running naked shouting, "Eureka!" Meaning, "I have found it" in Greek. Don't you wish you could've caught a sight of that?

…and Japanese consul Chiune Sugihara who saved the lives of thousands of Jews fleeing the Nazis by issuing transit visas during World War I even after his superior, Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsouka in Tokyo pretty much said, "No, you're not."

 

There's also Stefan Banic, Garrett Augustus Morgan… both men invented solutions in response to witnessing accidents which cost the loss of life. Banic witnessed a plane crash which killed the pilot and in response, patented an early parachute (No. 1,108,484)… his background is that of a coal miner. Garrett Morgan witnessed an accident at an intersection involving a horse carriage and an automobile in the 1920s which killed the passenger. One of his inventions was the three-way traffic signal.

 

What life choices led them to be so extraordinary… what can we learn from them?

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBrand Me
• Release date: Mar 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201498962

Lawrence Jean-Louis

Born in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, with a fondness for both breaking things to see how they work, Lawrence is  an insurance broker, a beaded jewelry artist and working towards building a money management firm by 2030. Her favorite artists include Jackson Pollock, Piet Mondrian, Vincent van Gogh, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Alexander Calder, Johannes Vermeer, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.  She is the author of Drunken Philosophy, Poop! Random Words, Musings and Insight, Color Your Word! A Creativity Outlet for Nerdy Adults, and That's Just My Baby Daddy! 12 Men Who've Contributed Greatly to Society.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER 1 Archimedes: Give Me a Lever and a Place to Stand, I Will Move the Earth

CHAPTER 2 Galileo Galilei: Revolutionary Inventor, Scholar and Researcher

CHAPTER 3 Albert Einstein: Ulmenses Sunt Mathematici

CHAPTER 4 Ctesibius (Ktesibios) of Alexandria: Inventor of the Hydraulis

CHAPTER 5 Heron of Alexandria: Michanikos, the Machine Man

CHAPTER 6 Garrett Morgan: Inventor of the Three-Way Traffic Signal & Gas Mask

CHAPTER 7 Stefan Banic: The Slovak Coal Miner Who Patented an Early Parachute

CHAPTER 8 Chiune Sugihara: The Japanese Diplomat Whose Actions Saved Thousands of Jews

CHAPTER 9 Elon Musk: Colonizing Mars With 1 Million Inhabitants

CHAPTER 10 Jeff Bezos: Abracadabra, The Internet’s First Online Book Store

CHAPTER 11 Bill Gates: Co-Founder Of Microsoft & Co-Developer Of The Altair Basic Language

CHAPTER 12 Warren Buffet: The Michelangelo of Business

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CHAPTER NOTES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

Thank you for grabbing a copy of this book. Whether it was purchased, borrowed from the library, gifted, or hopefully while reading this in class... or for class. My primary audience in writing That’s Just My Baby Daddy are teenage girls... specifically those at risk of becoming pregnant without even yet having finished school. But I also wrote it for myself, and for anyone interested in learning more about the lives of Archimedes, Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Ctesibius, Heron of Alexandria, Stefan Banic, Chiune Sugihara, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.

In Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman wrote As of 1993 the birthrate among girls ten to fourteen has risen steadily for five years in a row—some call it 'babies having babies'—as has the proportion of unwanted teen pregnancies and peer pressure to have sex.

Following up on this, pregnancy and childbirth complications are the leading cause of death among girls aged 15–19 years globally. In 2019, there were 171,674 births to teenage girls/young women (ages 15-19). Sixteen percent of the live births were at least the second child born to the mother.

What sparked the idea to write and publish That’s Just My Baby Daddy was having read an article that described Galileo Galilei as the father of observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, the father of the scientific method, and the father of modern science. To which I tweeted, that he was probably also the inspiration a 90’s song of the song name by B-Rock and the Bizz.

There's also the altruistic belief that it's sometimes difficult to see beyond what's immediately in front of us. My hope is that you’re not thinking that becoming a young mom is the best that you have to offer the world... my hope is that you’re not listening to sweet nothings being whispered in your ear when there’s so much potential within you. You just need to be planted, watered, sprouted, and then grow.

Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life, said There’s awesome power in a focused life. Diffused light doesn’t have much of an effect on what it touches. But when you focus light—like the rays of the sun through a magnifying glass—you can ignite a piece of paper or grass. If you can focus it even more, it becomes a laser. A laser can cut through steel and destroy cancer.

Hopefully this revelation comes to you before it did me, because I’m 39 as I write this, and still working to get my life in order and realize my potential. I’m pretty sure that in either middle or high school, I considered being a young mom and having a kid by 18 a good idea. Seeing myself now... it wouldn’t have been for neither myself or any offspring. But who knows... maybe the responsibility might’ve led me to make different decisions.

Hopefully by the end of the book,