Quo Fuit places 5 dated presences for Bill Gates across 5 places, from 1955 to 2022.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American businessman and philanthropist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
Every dot is a place Bill Gates is documented in, on a dated record. The interactive globe carries the full detail.
Where Bill Gates was documented, and when
28 October 1955exact date
Seattleattested“William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955, in Seattle, Washington, as the only son of William H.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
November 1975month
Harvardattested“MITS hired Allen, and Gates took a leave of absence from Harvard to work with him at MITS in November 1975.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
2010year
Microsoftattested“* Gates received the 2010 Bower Award for Business Leadership from The Franklin Institute for his achievements at Microsoft and his philanthropic work.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
2019year
University of Cambridgeattested“* In 2019, Gates was awarded the Professor Hawking Fellowship of the Cambridge Union in the University of Cambridge.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
2022year
Pakistanattested“* In 2022, Gates received the Hilal-e-Pakistan, the second-highest civilian award in Pakistan for his social work in the country.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
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In each of these, a source puts Bill Gates and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1973year
Lakeside School (Seattle)mentioned“He was a national merit scholar when he graduated from Lakeside School in 1973.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
1 January 1979exact date
Bellevue, Washingtonmentioned“The company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington, on January 1, 1979.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
1 January 1979exact date
Albuquerquementioned“The company moved from Albuquerque to Bellevue, Washington, on January 1, 1979.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
1987year
Microsoftmentioned“In 1987, at a trade fair in New York, Gates met Melinda French, then a recent graduate of Duke University who had begun working at Microsoft around four months earlier.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
1987year
New Yorkmentioned“In 1987, at a trade fair in New York, Gates met Melinda French, then a recent graduate of Duke University who had begun working at Microsoft around four months earlier.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
1989year
Microsoftmentioned“In 1989, Gates wrote the foreword to the Microsoft Press book Learn BASIC Now, by Michael Halvorson and David Rygmyr, reflecting on the growth of the BASIC language and its use in most of the era's personal computers.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
1996 to 2023period
Nyenrode Business Universiteitmentioned“* Gates has received honorary doctorates from Nyenrode Business Universiteit (1996), KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2002), Waseda University (2005), Tsinghua University (2007), Harvard University (2007), the Karolinska Institute (200…”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
2000year
Microsoftmentioned“After 2000, the nominal value of his Microsoft holdings declined, partly because of the decline in Microsoft's stock price after the dot-com bubble burst, and partly because of the multi-billion dollar donations he had made to his charit…”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
June 2006month
Microsoftmentioned“In June 2006, Gates announced that he would transition out of his role at Microsoft to dedicate more time to philanthropy.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
November 2006month
Mexicomentioned“* In November 2006, he was awarded the Placard of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, together with his wife Melinda who was awarded the Insignia of the same order, both for their philanthropic work around the world in the areas of health and…”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
2009year
Carnegie Mellon Universitymentioned“Gates, through his foundation, also donated $20 million to the Carnegie Mellon University for a new building to be named Gates Center for Computer Science which opened in 2009.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
9 December 2010exact date
Seattlementioned“Gates and his wife invited Joan Salwen to Seattle to speak about what the family had done, and on December 9, 2010, Bill and Melinda Gates and investor Warren Buffett each signed a commitment they called the "Giving Pledge", which is a c…”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
March 2013month
Strasbourgmentioned“It has also been reported that Epstein and Gates met with Nobel Committee chair Thorbjørn Jagland at his residence in Strasbourg, France, in March 2013 to discuss the Nobel Prize.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
April 2017month
Seattlementioned“In April 2017, Gates partnered with Swiss tennis player Roger Federer in playing in the Match for Africa 4, a noncompetitive tennis match at a sold-out Key Arena in Seattle.”source: Wikipedia: Bill Gates
Two people documented in the same place in the same year is a correlation, not a meeting.
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How to read this page
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back to it. Nothing is inferred, and a gap in the record is not evidence that someone was elsewhere.
A tag says how the fact is carried by its source: documented a structured,
explicitly dated record, attested a sentence that states the person was there,
mentioned a sentence that ties the person to the place without stating presence.
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