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Mother Teresa |
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta was born on 26 August 1910 in Üsküb, Ottoman Empire (today Skopje, Republic of Macedonia) and died on 5 September 1997. She was an Roman Catholic nun who founded the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India in 1950. |
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Queen Elizabeth I |
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Elizabeth I was the Queen of England and Queen of Ireland from 17 November 1558 since 24 March 1603 when she died. She is the daughter of Henry VIII. Queen Elizabeth I is famous for her campaign against Spanish armada in 1558, which it is one of the greatest victories in English history. |
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The Virgin Mary |
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Mary, Mother of Jesus was a Jewish woman of Nazareth in Galilee and the mother of Jesus of Nazareth as is identified in the New Testament. |
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Rosa Parks |
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Rosa Parks (full name Rosa Louise McCauley Parks) was born on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama, U.S.A. and she was an African American civil rights activist. She is represented as an international icon of resistance to racial segregation and later she became an important symbol of the modern Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks died at age 94 on October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan, United States of America. |
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Joan of Arc |
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Joan of Arc was born in 1412 in Domrémy, France. She was a national heroine of France and a Catholic saint, which she was called Saint Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc was famous for her leadership during the Hundred Years War and was indirectly responsible for the coronation of Charles VII. She died on 30 May 1431 in Rouen, France. |
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Marie Curie |
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Marie Curie (full name Marie Sklodowska Curie) was born on 7 November 1867 in Warsaw, Vistula Country, Russian Empire. She was a famous physicist and chemist. Marie Curie have invented the theory of radioactivity, discovering new techniques for isolating radioactive isotopes, and found two new elements, polonium and radium. |
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Florence Nightingale |
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Florence Nightingale was born on 12 May 1820 in Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, she was a famous English nurse, writer and statistician. Florence Nightingale is famous for her work in nursing during the Crimean War, and write the book "Notes on Nursing". In present the annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around the world on her birthday. |
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Margaret Thatcher |
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Margaret Thatcher (full name Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher) was born on 13 October 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK. She is famous for her role as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 4 May 1979 since 28 November 1990. |
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Amelia Earhart |
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Amelia Earhart (full name Amelia Mary Earhart) was born on July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas, USA. She was famous as an American aviation pioneer and author, awarded with Distinguished Flying Cross for becoming the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. Amelia Earhart have gone missing in 1937 on an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe. |
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Jane Goodall |
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Jane Goodall (full name Dame Valerie Jane Morris Goodall) was born on 3 April 1934 and is an English UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist. She is famous for her study of chimpanzee social and family interactions in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania. |
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