1. Name of Notable Person:Pythagoras
2. Web Addresses of all Sources (copy and paste)
http://ygraine.membrane.com/genesis/notes/pythagoras.html
3. Biographical Information
a. Date of Birth and Death Born. 570 BC-c Died . 495 BC (aged around 75)
b. Place of Birth and Death (or current residence): Born :Samos, Ionia, Greece died:
c. Family (e.g. parents, siblings, spouse, children)
Pythagoras probably had at least two brothers, perhaps three. Little is known about his childhood. He apparently grew up on Samos, but traveled with his father. It has been said he and his father returned to Tyre on at least one occasion and also traveled to Italy.
d. Education
He was well educated, learning to read and play the lyre. It is said that while in Tyre, he studied with the Chaldaeans and the learned men of Syria. At home, he was influenced by his teacher, the philosopher, Pherekydes. Another apocryphal tale has him visiting Miletus in his late teenage years to study with Thales.
e. Occupation
4. Two-three Quotes (either about the person of from the person)
“Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
“Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.” 
“Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.”
5. Significant contribution(s) to World History
Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the Pythagorean brotherhood that, although religious in nature, formulated principles that influenced the thought of Plato and Aristotle and contributed to the development of mathematics and Western rational philosophy (see Pythagoreanism).
6. Ten terms related to the person: Pythagorean theorem, Philosophy, Mathematics, Greek,
science, Italy, formula, education,
7. Timeline of at least five important dates in the person’s life
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