More Leader Facts

Today was Costume Day.  I dressed up as Spider Woman.  We went over what we learned about the leaders from the project yesterday.  Here are some things that I learned, whether in class or on the internet:

• My fact about Francois Hollande was wrong.
• Vladimir Putin, which was talked about a lot today, lived in an apartment with three other families and remembers hunting rats.
• François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande was born on August 12, 1954, in Rouen, France to a right-wing physician father and a progressive social worker mother. The family moved to Paris when Hollande was 13.
• Putin has a black belt in karate.
• Enrique Pena Nieto fathered two children with two different women while he was married and he still became president.
• Xi Jinping's father, Xi Zhongxun, lost out in a power struggle in 1963 and was banished and later jailed.
• Narendra Modi sold tea in a railway station before becoming prime minister.