earance. He determined to complete his art once again, adapting to his permanent disability. The period from 1803 to 1814 was the great period of his finest work. He composed many immortal works despite his deafness. In 1815, his brother died and entered a painful legal battle with his brother's wife for seven years on custody of his nephew Karl. On March 26, 1827, Beethoven died at age 56. The death causes were high lead levels in the skull and cirrhosis.

Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865)
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The story of a man who had deleted the word "impossible" from his life.
Historians and observers regarded Lincoln as the greatest American president after George Washington. Abraham was born and grown up in a modest environment. He taught himself and did not receive a school education, except for a few years because of the poverty of his family, which suffered greatly. He distinguished as the only US president to have patents. He had invented a system to raise riverboats of sand barriers (Patent No. 6469). Abraham tried many trials in ...