Brief biography of aristotle onassis
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Aristotle Onassis
1906-1975
Who Was Aristotle Onassis?
In the 1920s, Aristotle Onassis launched his own cigarette brand. Shortly thereafter he realized that tobacco shipping generated more revenue, and went into the cargo ship business. The shipping tycoon dated many famous women, including the widowed Jacqueline Kennedy, whom he married in 1968.
Quick Facts
FULL NAME: Aristotle Onassis
BORN: January 15, 1906
DIED: March 15, 1975
BIRTHPLACE: Smyrna, Turkey
SPOUSES: Athina Livanos (1946-1960) and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1968-1975)
CHILDREN: Christina and Alexander
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Capricorn
Early Life
Aristotle Onassis, who was called “Ari” by most everyone, was born on January 15, 1906, in Smyrna, a town in present-day Turkey. His family was Greek.
Never a good student, he did poorly in school much to his father’s chagrin, who hoped Ari would take over the family’s cigarette business. After the Turks invaded his town in 1921, Onassis decided to
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Aristotle Onassis
Greek and Argentine business magnate (1906–1975)
Aristotle Socrates Onassis (, ;[1]Greek: Αριστοτέλης Ωνάσης, romanized: Aristotélis Onásis, pronounced[aristoˈtelisoˈnasis]; 20 January 1906 – 15 March 1975)[2] was a Greek and Argentine[3][4]business magnate. He amassed the world's largest privately-owned shipping fleet and was one of the world's richest and most famous men.[5] He was married to Athina Mary Livanos, had a long-standing affair with opera singer Maria Callas and was married to American former First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy.[6]
Onassis was born in Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire to Greek parents and fled the city with his family to Greece in 1922 in the wake of the burning of Smyrna. He moved to Argentina in 1923 and established himself as a tobacco trader and later a shipping owner during the Second World War. Moving to Monaco, Onassis fought Prince Rainier III for economi
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- 1. Introduction
2. The Escape from Smirne
3. The New World
4. The Penelope and the Socrates
5. The Liberty Fleet and the OPM Technique
6. Colombo's Egg
7. Whale Hunting
8. From the Sea to the Sky
9. The Decay
he life and character of Aristotle Onassis, in many ways, exhibited strong similarities to that of the Greek mythological figure Odysseus. Although never a passionate reader, Aristotle was fascinated by the story of Odysseus -- about his eternal journey in search of chimera and adventures and his ultimate return to his native country to reign in peace on his people. This character always attracted him as he felt the sense of a similar destiny and that he, as did Odysseus, knew how to exist above all will.
ri was brought up in an environment consumed bygd the rigorous principles of the Orthodox Church. But inside him, there remained only a deep religious sense of man as he grew older, a sense that respects the strength of superior events while de-emphasizing