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In 1936 African American sprinter Jesse

Owens amazed the world by breaking
Olympic records and winning four gold
medals in Berlin.
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• Yuri Gagarin was the first person to
fly in space. His flight, on April 12,
1961, lasted 108 minutes as he
circled the Earth for a little more
than one orbit in the Soviet
spacecraft.
• Following the flight, Gagarin
became a cultural hero in the Soviet
Union.
• Even today, more than six decades
after the historic flight, Gagarin is
widely celebrated in Russian space
museums, with numerous artifacts
and statues displayed in his honor.
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• El Greco is probably one of the most well
known artists of his time, and still to this
day, over 500 years after his death.
Because of the fact that he was considered
a painter of the spirit, he was one of the
most influential painters, which set the
groundwork for many to follow, and for
many art forms that followed.
• His work was admired by the members of
the Blue Rider School, and several artists
who followed, far after his career ended.
• El Greco was born in Crete, and was
trained as an icon painter. He was also an
architect and a sculptor.
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• Florence Nightingale, byname Lady with

the Lamp, (born May 12,
1820, Florence [Italy]—died August 13, 1910,
London, England), British nurse and social
reformer who was the foundational
philosopher of modern nursing.
• Nightingale was put in charge of nursing
British and allied soldiers in Turkey during
the Crimean War. She spent many hours in the
wards, and her night rounds giving personal
care to the wounded established her image as
the “Lady with the Lamp.”
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• Anna Pavlova was a famous
Russian ballerina and
choreographer.

• Pavlova is most recognized for her

creation of the role of The Dying
Swan and, with her own company,
became the first ballerina to tour
around the world. She toured South
America, India and Australia.
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• Alexander Fleming discovered
penicillin, whose use as an antibiotic has
saved untold millions of lives.
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• Alexander Graham Bell ('Graham'

pronounced /ˈɡreɪ.əm/) (March 3, 1847 –
August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-
born scientist, inventor, engineer, and
innovator who is credited with inventing
the first practical telephone

• He also founded the American

Telephone and Telegraph Company
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• Marco Polo traveled to China with his father and
uncle over the Silk Road which was an overland
route to China.

• He brought back ivory, jade, jewels, porcelain and

silk. He told about the Chinese use of coal, money
and compasses. He met Rustichello, a famous
writer, who wrote about Marco Polo's travels in a
book called THE BOOK OF TRAVELS.

• Marco Polo became famous for his travels through

Central Asia and China. His book gave Europeans
some of their earliest information about China,
providing inspiration for many others including
Christopher Columbus.
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• Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955)

was a German-born theoretical physicist who
developed the theory of relativity, one of the two
pillars of modern physics. He is best known to
the general public for his mass–energy
equivalence formula E = mc2, which has been
dubbed "the world's most famous equation".
• He received the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics for
his services to theoretical physics, and especially
for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric
effect", a pivotal step in the development
of quantum theory.
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