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 Andrei Sakharov, an outstanding scientist and public figure, was
born on
the 21st of May 1921. He graduated from Moscow University in 1942. In
1947 he defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Science.
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My favourite writer is Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. In my
opinion, he is
the greatest Russian dramatist and short story writer. I'm never tired
of reading and rereading his plays and humorous stories. Chekhov was
born in 1860 in Taganrog. |
Charles Robert Darwin was born on
February 12, 1809 in Shrewsbury,
England. He was the fifth child and second son of Robert Waring Darwin
and Susannah Wedgwood. Darwin was the British naturalist who became
famous for his theories of evolution and natural selection. |
With shoes and trousers too big for him,
and jacket too tight,
moustache, bowler hat and walking cane the famous tramp portrayed by
Charlie Chaplin as the little man suffering all unfair things of life. |
Charlotte
Bronte was born in 1816 in a small English town. Charlotte and
her sisters, Emily and Ann, had a very hard life, from early childhood
they knew poverty and very hard work.
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300-400 years
ago a big part of the world was remaining unknown. But now
there seems little more to explore, the wild north was conquered, the
jungle was conquered too. |
Many years ago
a young doctor began to write stories about a man who was
a detective. Readers liked his stories because they were very
interesting and the doctor decided to become a writer. |
DD was the founder of the realistic
novel. He was also a brilliant
journalist and in many ways the father of modern English periodicals. He
founded and paved the way for many magazines ( "The Revue", "The
Spectator"). |
Dante
Alighieri is beyond doubt the greatest of Italian poets, and,
many readers think, one of the greatest poets that Western civilization
has produced. W. B. Yeats called him "the chief imagination of
Christendom."
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David Duchovny was born in New York
City on the 7th of August, 1960.
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Diana Spencer was born on the first
of July 1961 in Sandringham in
England. She had two older sisters and a younger brother. In childhood
she liked games, swimming, running and dancing. She wanted to become a
dancer. Besides she loved children very much and at the age of sixteen
she worked in schools for very young children. |
Edgar Allan
Poe, outstanding romantic poet, critic, romancer and short
story writer, was one of the first professional writers of the United
States. He had a rare talent and in France and Russia of his days he was
considered to be the only American poet of significance.
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Elizabeth 2 is
the Queen of Great Britain. She was born in Windsor on 21
April 1926. Her full name is Elizabeth-Mary-Alexander Windsor. Her pet
name is Lilibet. She was educated at home, taught to read and write by
her parents. She knew foreign languages. |
Ernest
Hemingway is one of the greatest 20th-century American writers.
The legend which developed around his impressive personality was that of
a man of action, a devil-may-care adventurer, a brave war
correspondent, an amateur boxer, a big-game hunter and deep-sea
fisherman, the victim of three car accidents and two plane crashes, a
man of four wives and many loves, but above all a brilliant writer of
stories and novels.
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Ernest Rutherford is
called the Newton of atomic physics. He was
recognized by his fellow scientists as a man of colossal energy and
tireless enthusiasm. As he himself remarked he lived in the "heroic age
of physics”. |
Euclid of Alexandria is one of the
most important and influential
mathematicians in history. Living in ancient Alexandria, he wrote The
Elements, a geometry textbook used in some places until the twentieth
century. |
The Russian
writer Dostoevski is regarded as one of the world's great
novelists. In Russia he was surpassed only by Leo Tolstoi.
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Benjamin
Franklin was self-educated, which means that he was too poor to
go to school and therefore got a good education. As a boy he helped his
father to make candles, which were thought to look more romantic that
electric lights. |
George
Washington (1732-1799) won a lasting place in American History as
the "Father of our Country". For nearly twenty years he guided his
country much as a father cares for a growing child.
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Gerard
Depardieu is one of the most popular actors. He was born in 1948
in a poor family of a shoemaker in a little town. When he was 16 he came
to Paris without any education and without any money. |
Truman was born in Lamar, Missouri,
in 1884. He grew up in Independence,
and for 12 years prospered as a Missouri farmer.
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Ford, Henry (1863-1947), American
industrialist, best known for his
pioneering achievements in
the automobile industry. |
At the end of
the 19th century people felt excited about the new
discoveries of science, which seemed to promise so much in the future.
Only few writers expressed this feeling so well or so lifelike as
H.G.Wells. |
During the
1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed,
"Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are doing the
best we can to find whatever the right balance is... For me, that
balance is family, work, and service."
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Isaac Newton
was a great English scientist. He was born in 1642 in a
little village in Lincolnshire: Newton’s father was a farmer and died
before his son’s birth. When Newton was 15, his uncle removed him from
school because he wanted to make a farmer of him. |
James Aldridge
was born in 1918, in the town of Swanhill, in Australia.
His father was a journalist and writer. His parents came to Australia
from England only a few years before James was born.
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Maxwell, born
in a well-known Scottish family, early showed signs of
mathematical talent. At the age of 15 he contributed a piece of original
work on the drawing of oval curves to the royal society of Edinburgh. |
J. D. Salinger is one of the most famous contemporary writers. He
was
born in 1919 in New York in a well-to-do family. He graduated from the
Pennsylvania Military Academy, and also studied at New York and Columbia
Universities. |
In the history of English literature
Jerome K. Jerome occupies a modest
place. He cannot be compared with Dickens, Thackeray, or Bernard Shaw,
but he is well known as a writer-humorist not only in his country but in
another countries too.
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John
Constable, one of the greatest landscape painters, was born in
Sufford, on June 11, 1776. He was the son of a wealthy miller. He began
to take interest in landscape painting while he was at grammar school. |
Popular
American writer John Galsworthy was born in 1853. He attended a
prestigeous school because his father wanted John to be a lawyer. Thus,
John entered the Oxford University. But some time later be told his
father about his wish to become a writer.
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Joseph Turner,
the greatest English romantic landscape painter, was born
in Covent Garden, London, on the 23rd of April in 1775. He was the son
of a fashionable barber. |
Jules Verne
was born in 1828 in France. Young Jules was interested in
machinery, sailing and writing. Together with his brother Paul, he
explored the river near their home in an old sailboat.
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Leonardo
Wilhelm DiCaprio (born November 11, 1974) is an American actor
and film producer.
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Lewis Carroll
was the pen-name of Charles L. Dodgson, the man who wrote a
famous book for children "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland".
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