Short Biography of WHOOPI GOLDBERG, WILLIAM BUCKLAND, WITOLD PILECKI, | 200 Words | in English
Biography of WHOOPI GOLDBERG in Short
(BORN 1955)
Whoopi couldn’t believe it the first time she saw a black woman on the TV. The woman was Nichelle Nichols and she was playing Uhura, a communications officer living onboard the USS Enterprise as it battled its way through deep space.
Whoopi knew she wanted to be an actor. Seeing Uhura in Star Trek, she knew it was possible too.
With her dad gone and her mum always at work, Whoopi was on her own a lot. She became obsessed with movies, and would spend entire days watching them back to back
As soon as she could, she moved to California to begin her acting career. She wasn’t moving alone she had her newborn daughter to care for, too. To support her, Whoopi worked in a bank, laid bricks, and even put make-up onto dead bodies at a funeral home. For years, she worked during the day and spent her nights and weekends performing in theatres. She never stopped acting because acting allowed her to escape life and pretend to be someone else for a while.
Whoopi created a one woman show called The Spook Show, in which she portrayed various strange characters of her own creation. The characters were all misfits and oddballs, people who didn’t quite fit in, and whose ways of seeing the world proved hilarious and heartbreaking Everyone loved it.
Through The Spook Show, Whoopi got a part in The Color Purple, a film that chronicled the struggle of an African American woman living in America in the 1930s. Since then, she’s played a psychic who can commune with ghosts, a nun with a beautiful singing voice, and an evil ice queen.
Eventually, Whoopi got her own role in Star Trek, playing a wise alien from the planet Nova Kron. Now she cruises through deep space on the USS Enterprise, inspiring young girls to pursue their dreams.
Biography of WILLIAM BUCKLAND in Short
(1784-1856)
William lived in a small market town in Devon surrounded by old quarries and bright fields. His father was a vicar and would often take his son on walks through the countryside, where William scoured the ground for glimpses of the distant past in fossils, ammonites, and Jurassic rock.
At university, William studied Christianity like his father, but he explored geology and mineralogy too. He believed that the earth beneath our feet held secrets and he was determined to find out what those secrets were.
Aller becoming a priest, William continued his investigations into what makes up the earth.
While excavating Kirkdale Cave in 1821. William unearthed the bones of countless creatures now extinct in Britain, like the hyena, elephant, hippo, and rhino. At first he thought the skeletons had been washed up there during the great flood of the Bible. Then, on closer inspection, he could see that the hyenas had been dragging the other animals there to eat them.
William was certainly different. Even while out digging for remains and examining rock faces, he preferred to wear an academic gown. He owned a table made out of fossilized dinosaur poo. Students have said that he would sometimes choose to give his lectures while sitting on the back of a horse.
When he got married, William’s honeymoon lasted an entire year. and was spent in the pits and caves of Europe with his wife, Mary.
One day, at the Geological Society of London, William announced the discovery of an unheard of species of giant reptile that walked the earth 166 million years ago. He called the reptile Megalosaurus. It was the first example of the creatures scientists would later call dinosaurs
When William died, the site set aside for his burial was found to contain Jurassic limestone. It needed to be blown up before William could be laid to rest. Friends saw it as the final joke of a dedicated scientist who never took himself too seriously.
Biography of WITOLD PILECKI in Short
(1901-1948)
Witold Pilecki fought during the First World War, defending Poland against the Russians. When the Second World War began and the Nazis invaded Poland, conquering the Polish army, Witold’s days of military service began again
Together with another soldier, Witold formed the Secret Polish Army. which was soon made part of the larger Polish resistance. The men and women of the resistance maintained cover, working normal jobs so as not to arouse the suspicions of occupying Nazis,
One day Witold came to his superiors with a plan. There had been much talk of a giant camp called Auschwitz that had been built in the south of Poland and no one was quite sure what went on there. Witold volunteered to be arrested and sent to the camp so that he could find out more information
Once there, Witold soon discovered to his horror that Auschwitz wasn’t a prison, but a death camp. purposely built to kill Jewish people on a large scale using poisonous gas.
Using parts smuggled into the camp. Witold built a radio transmitter which he could use to send information to the resistance. He also wrote long reports by hand which would then be snuck out of the camp and sent to the British government Thanks to his bravery Witold became the first person to alert the outside world of the Nazis atrocities.
After three years of undercover observation, it was time to leave During the night shift at a bakery, Witold and two other prisoners cut the alarm and telephone wires, took down their guard, and escaped. They scattered tobacco behind them as they fled so that the Nazis’ dogs wouldn’t be able to follow their scent
Witold was eventually arrested by communist authorities. They charged him with spying and sending information to the British For this, Witold was executed.
It wasn’t until 1990 that Witold’s huge contribution to our understanding of just how cruel the Nazis had been was revealed. Since then, a monument has been built so that nobody would forget him, and schools and streets across Poland have been named after Witold: the man who volunteered for Auschwitz