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BEBE VIO

Italy

Born: 1997 in Venice

She is a famous paralympic athlete foil fencing

In late 2008 she contracted what was first thought to be a common flu, but turned out to be severe meningitis. Necrosis led to the amputation of both her legs from the knee, and both her arms from the forearms.

BEBE VIO

GIULIO CESARE

Born:100 BC

Dead:44 BC

He was a military and a Roman consul.

During his lifetime, Caesar was regarded as one of the best orators and prose authors in Latin. Only Caesar's war commentaries have survived.

Guglielmo Marconi was born the 25th April 1874. He is a physicist, inventor and Italian politician.

He invented wirless thelegrapy. He won the Premio Nobel for the physics.

The role played by Marconi Co. wireless in maritime rescues raised public awareness of the value of radio and brought fame to Marconi, particularly the sinking of the RMS Titanic on 15 April 1912 and the RMS Lusitania on 7 May 1915.

GUGLIELMO MARCONI

GUGLIELMO MARCONI

Petrache Poenaru invented a pen.

Nadia Comaneci took to the Montreal Protocol the first 10 in gymnastics.

Vytautas Kernagis - the Lithuanian singer and the songwriter, also the bard, the actor and the director. He was the television announcer as well.

Besides, Vytautas was considered and the pioneer of the Lithuanian poetry.

Born: May 19, 1951

Died: March 15, 2008

He was a Romanian cell biologist. Described as "the most influential cell biologist ever", in 1974 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine. The prize was granted for his innovations in electron microscopy and cell fractionation which together laid the foundations of modern molecular cell biology, the most notable discovery being the ribosomes of the endoplasmic reticulum – which he first described in 1955. Palade also received the U.S. National Medal of Science in Biological Sciences for "pioneering discoveries of a host of fundamental, highly organized structures in living cells" in 1986.

Born in 1941, he is a Romanian pan flute (nai) musician.

Zamfir Is known for playing an expanded version of nai, of 20 pipes to 22, 25, 28 and 30 pipes to increase its range, and obtaining as many as eight overtones (additionally to the fundamental tone) from each pipe by changing the embouchure.

Known as "The Master of the Pan Flute", he introduced the folk instrument to a modern audience and revived it from obscurity.

SIMONA HALEP

Born in 1991, she is a Romanian professional tennis player.

She is the current world No. 1 on the WTA Tour, a ranking she first achieved in October 2017, and has won 18 WTA singles titles and one WTA doubles title.

Simona Halep won her first major tournament at the 2018 French Open. 

Aziz Sancar

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2015

Born: 8 September 1946, Savur, Turkey

Affiliation at the time of the award: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

Prize motivation: "for mechanistic studies of DNA repair."

Prize share: 1/3

He was born on 15th of November 1995 in Portugal. Zahović began his career in Valencia, playing for Spanish club Valencia CF before moving to Portuguese club Benfica, where he remained until 2007. After his family returned to Slovenia, he joined Maribor youth selections after his father Zlatko became director of football at the Slovenian club. He made his professional debut in the final round of the 2012–13 season during a match against Aluminij when he came on as a late substitute. He finished the 2014–15 season on second place among the club goal scorers with 15 goals in all competitions, 12 of which he has scored in the Prva Liga. In August 2015, Zahović moved to the Eredivisie club Heerenveen and signed a three-year deal with the Dutch squad, with the possibility of a two-year extension. On 27 February 2017, it was reported that Zahović will not return to Heerenveen and will continue his career at Maribor.

LUKA ZAHOVIĆ, SLOVENIA

Jan Oblak was born on the 7th of January 1993, in Kranj. His dad got him interested in football so he started playing for a local club in Škofja Loka. When he was 10 years old he started playing for Olimpija in Ljubljana. He rejected an offer from Empoli and went on a test at Fulham. He also rejected it and signed a contract with Olimpija until 2011. On the 14t of July 2010 he signed a contract with Benfico and left Olimpija. He shoed his goalkeeper skills and after a successful season with Benfico signed a contract for 16 million euros with Atletico Madrid, where he is still playing now.

JAN OBLAK, SLOVENIA

He came from Slovenia. He was born on 10th of May in Vrhnika. He had a very rough childhood. He was born in the very poor family. He attended primary school in Vrhnika than he studied in the technical high school in Ljubljana called »Realka« . After that, he attended University of Vienna. He studied engineering there and later he switched to Slavic philology. He was the first Slovenian writer who made writing as my job. He wrote about 30 books and one collection of poems. His statue stands in Vrhinka. 

IVAN CANKAR, SLOVENIA

MIKI MUSTER, SLOVENIA

His real name is Nikolaj Muster. He was born on the 25th of November in Murska Sobota. He died on the 7th of May in 2018. He is a Slovenian sculptor, illustrator, cartoonist, and animator. He is know for his comics with characters Zvitorepec the fox, Trdonja the turtle and Lakotnik the wolf. He is very famous in Slovenia.

Donny Montell, is the Lithuanian singer-songwriter who represented at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2012, held in Baku, Azerbaijan. He did so for the second time in 2016, when he represented his country in Stocholm, Swedan.

Donny Montell

born 22nd October, 1987

was born on December 19th, in 1964. He is the Lithuanian retired professional basketball player and businessman. Recognized as one of the best European players of all time, he won the Euroscar six times, and the Mr. Europa Award twice.

Arvydas Romas Sabonis

Vytautas Šapranauskas was the Lithuanian  comedy and drama actor of the theatre and the cinema, and the anchor of TV programs. 

He committed suicide just before his 55th birthday. Before committing it, he texted several friends about his intentions, but nobody believed him, knowing him as the comedian.

MARIA POLYDOURI

Greek poet

1902 - 1930

Maria Polydouri was born in Kalamata on 1st April 1902. She was a Greek neo-romantic poet. She was the daughter of Eygenios Polydouris and Kiriaki Markatou. She completed her junior high school studies in Kalamata, after she had studied in schools of Gytheio and Filiatra and in the Arsakeio of Athens for 2 years.

She wrote her first poem, “The mother’s pain’’, at the age of 14. At the age of 16 she got a job in the Prefecture of Messinia. In 1920, in a period of 40 days, she lost both her parents. Where she worked, she met Kostas Kariotakis, a colleague of hers and a poet as well, and a deep love developed between them.

In 1924, the lawyer Aristotelis Georgiou entered her life. He was young, rich, handsome and Polydouri got engaged to him in 1925.

In the summer of 1926, she broke up with Aristotelis and left for Paris. One night, she was found in an alley in Paris. She got diagnosed with tuberculosis.

In July 1928, Polydouri got informed about a tragic event. Her beloved one, Kostas Kariotakis, had committed suicide. Her already bad health got worse. On 29th April 1930, she died. Both of them, Maria Polydouri and Kostas Kariotakis, died at a very young age. The only thing that remains of them is their poems, which remind us of their passionate love.

SOKRATIS

This is Sokratis Papastathopoulos. He was born in 1987 in Kalamata, Greece. He is a famous football player. He plays for ARSENAL for Premie League.

Captain Vassilis Constantakopoulos

Kalamata 1935 - 2011

The "Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos" Foundation is a charitable non-profit private foundation, founded in 2011 to honor Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos. Its aim is to establish Messinia as a model for sustainable development, by supporting and promoting related projects.The Foundation plans, manages and finances programs related to research, education and support of local structures of Messinia.It trades in a wide range of areas related to rural development, society, culture and the environment by developing partnerships with institutions and with bodies in those fields. 

YANNI

composer and pianist

1954 -

Yanni was born in 1954 in Kalamata, Greece. He plays New Age music.

He had a deep relationship with music. He began to play the piano at 6 years old. But music wasn't Yanni's only talent. He was good at swimming too.

Yanni pursued the biggest challenge of his career - to become the first western artist to perform at both the Taj Mahal in India and the Forbidden City in China.

Nikolaos Politis

Greek folklorist

1852-1921

Nikolaos Politis was born in Kalamata, Greece and is considered to be the father of folklore studies in Greece. Since his school years he had been developing his keen interest in popular life. As a high school student he publishes folkloric studies in magazines. He studied literature and law. He worked in the Parliament Library and occupied positions in the Ministry of Education.

In 1890 he became a professor of Mythology and Hellenic Archeology at the University of Athens, where he also served as a rector. In 1908 he founded the Hellenic Folklore Society, in 1909 he published the "Folklore" magazine and in 1918 he founded the Folklore Archives. His most important works are: "It is about the life and language of the Greek people" and "Elected from the songs of the Greek people".

ORHAN PAMUK

He was born in 1952 in Istanbul . He graduated from high school at Robert College , Istanbul has seen three years studied architecture at the Technical University. In 1976, he graduated from Istanbul University Institute of Journalism . After 1974, he began to write . His first novel, Cevdet Bey and His Sons won the Novel Competition Nationalities Publishing in 1979. This book, published in 1982, received the 1983 Orhan Kemal Novel Prize. The same year, the first edition of the Roman Madaral Silent House 1984 Award in France and with the translation of this book in 1991 Prix de la Découverte Européenne (European Discovery Award ) won. In 1985 historical novel published in the country 's reputation abroad and expanded Cotton White Castle . Black Book , published in 1990 , was one of the most controversial novels of contemporary Turkish literature . Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2006, made history as the first Turkish writer. He has taught at universities in Europe and the United States. He currently lives in the United States.

Alessandro Volta

ITALY

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) was a physicist, chemist and a pioneer of electrical science. He is most famous for his invention of the electric battery.

He invented the first electric battery – which people then called the “voltaic pile” – in 1800. Using his invention, scientists were able to produce steady flows of electric current for the first time, unleashing a wave of new discoveries and technologies.

Was the first person to isolate methane.

He discovered methane mixed with air could be exploded using an electric spark: this is the basis of the internal combustion engine.

He discovered “contact electricity” resulting from contact between different metals.

He recognized two types of electric conduction.

In recognition of Alessandro Volta’s contributions to science, the unit of electric potential is called the volt.

Volta Temple,

Como, Italy

Alessandro Manzoni

Italy

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Manzoni (7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian poet and novelist. He is famous for the novel The Betrothed, one of the major works of Italian literature. 

I promessi sposi (The Betrothed), is one of the first written in Italy, somehow influenced by Walter Scott. He wrote three different versions of the novel, and for each he improved the use of the language in order to find a form that would not be too local, thus he is considered one of the fathers of modern Italian.

He also wrote a treatise, two odes ( "Marzo 1821" and "5 maggio"), two historical tragedy ("Il conte di Carmagnola" and "Adelchi"), a romantic work about the conflict between Venice and Milan, and a poetic drama about Charlemagne's conquest of Italy.

Manzoni married twice and had several children but his life was very hard and his second wife and most of his children also predeceased him.

He was made Senator of Italy in 1860.

A scene from "The betrothed"

Giuseppe Terragni

Italy

Giuseppe Terragni (Meda, 1904 - Como, 1943) was an architect and the pioneer of the modern movement called Rationalism. His masterpiece is Casa del Fascio, built in Como in 1936. His most remarkable designs were built in Como, too.

Actually, Como was one of the centres of the Modern Movement in Italy.

Terragni's career lasted only thirteen years.

Giuseppe Terragni was also one of the leaders of the artistic group called "astrattisti comaschi" with Mario Radice and Manlio Rho, one of the most important events in Italian Modern Art.

Terragni designed Novocomun and took part in the World War Two, drawing the suffering around him.

He returned in Como and died in 1943.

Casa del Fascio, a masterpiece of Rationalism in Italy

IVAN JUAN VUCETICH,

CROATIA- ARGENTINA

Juan Vucetich ( 1858 –1925) was a Croatian-born Argentine police official who pioneered the use of fingerprinting. He was born as Ivan Vučetić in Hvar in the Dalmatian region of Croatia. In 1882, he immigrated to Argentina.He became the director of the Center for Dactyloscopy in Buenos Aires. In 1892 Vucetich made the first positive identification of a criminal in a case where F.Rojas had killed her two children trying to put the blame on the outside attacker. A bloody print identified her as the killer.Argentine police adopted his method of fingerprinting classification and it spread to police forces all over the world.

DRAŽEN PETROVIĆ, CROATIA, BASKETBALL MOZART

Dražen Petrović (born October 22, 1964 – died June 7, 1993) He was a Croatian professional basketball player. He initially achieved success playing professional basketball in Europe in the 1980s, before joining the NBA in 1989.Petrović earned two silver medals and one bronze in Olympic, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA World Cup, a gold and a bronze in the FIBA EuroBasket, and two EuroLeague titles. He represented Yugoslavia's national team and, later, Croatia's national team. Petrović joined the NBA in 1989, as a member of the Portland Trail Blazers. Petrović's career and life ended after he died in a car accident at the age of 28

Ivan Zajc, CROATIA

1st Primary School Bjelovar, Croatia

Ivan Zajc (Rijeka, August 3, 1832 - Zagreb, December 16, 1914) was a Croatian composer, conductor, director and teacher who for over forty years dominated Croatia's musical culture. He is often called the Croatian Verdi.

He founded a Croatian opera. He was educated in Croatia and Italy. His father wanted him to study law, but he studied music in Milano (Italy).

Zajc has left an opus of about 1200 pieces for the orchestra, piano, 19 opera, about 50 cantatas, 19 masses, 14 Ave Maria, 200 choirs, 170 solo songs ...

Dora Pejačević, CROATIA

1st Primary School Bjelovar, Croatia

Dora Pejačević (September 10, 1885 - March 5, 1923) was a significant Croatian composer.

She lived in Croatia in a family house in Našice, but traveled to major European cultural centers such as Budapest, Munich, Prague and Vienna.

For her life, except in Croatia, her works are often performed overseas (London, Dresden, Budapest, Stockholm, Vienna, Munich and others) in the interpretation of the famous world musicians of her time.

Behind Dora Pejačević remained 58 opus of orchestral, vocal-instrumental and piano music.

Ivan Meštrović, Croatia

1st Primary School Bjelovar, Croatia

Ivan Meštrović (Croatia, August 15, 1883 - USA, January 16, 1962) was a Croatian sculptor and architect.

He was the most prominent sculptor of Croatian modern sculpture.

He was educated in Croatia and Austria.

He was a professor of sculpture at the University of the United States.

His work has been worldwide acknowledgments, and his sculptures are all over the world.

Stipe Božić, Croatia

1st Primary School Bjelovar, Croatia

Stipe Božić (January 2, 1951) is a Croatian climber, a travel writer, director of documentary films and shows, a member of the HGSS (Croatian Mountain Rescue Service).

It is on the highest peaks of all continents and at the top three peaks in the world:

Mount Everest 8848 m (1979 and 1989)

K2 8611 m (1993)

Kanchenjunga 8586 m (1991)

Stipe Božić also climbed the top seven peaks of all seven continents.

Apart from mountaineering, Stipe Božić has been engaged in speleology, diving, and is an active skier.

With one international ski expedition he also arrived at the North Pole.

Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić was a Croatian writer.

She was born in Ogulin, April 18th 1874. There she started writing fairy tales, she was inspired by the legends of Klek mountain and its spring, Đula's pit...During stormy nights, witches and wizards would gather at Klek. Their laughter and screams could be heard to Ogulin. They where trying to wake up a giant.

Ivana obtainet the title of Croatian Andersen.

Made by Ivana, Primary school Ivanec, Croatia

• Janica Kostelić ex Croatian Alpine skier
• she won The World Cup in years 2001, 2003 and 2006
• on 5 February 2006 Janica became the second skier in the world
• she won for the first time in her nineth race 
• for the rest of the season she won the first place  five times, seven times the second place and five times the third place
• made by Helena, Margareta & Tin, Primary school Ivanec, Croatia

SOFIA LOREN ROME 1934

Sophia Loren, the pseudonym of Sofia Villani Scicolone is an Italian actress. Listed among the most famous actresses in the history of cinema, Loren becomes part of the Seventh Art very young and soon imposes itself, at the beginning of the fifties, thanks to her roles in comic films like Bread, Love and ... and in Hollywood-style films, for example A husband for Cinzia and La baia di Napoli, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe, but also shows a great dramatic capacity with the role in the Black Orchid, thanks to which she wins the Volpi Cup for the better female interpretation.

ITALY

CRISTOFORO COLOMBO

ITALY

CRISTOFORO COLOMBO

GENOVA 1451 - SPAIN 1506

Christopher Columbus was an Italian navigator and explorer, a citizen of the Republic of Genoa first and subject of the Kingdom of Castile then, famous above all for his travels that led to the European colonization of the Americas

LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

MODENA 1935 - 2007

The famous Emilian tenor immediately showed an early vocation to singing, as witnessed by family reports. Not only did the little Luciano climb on the kitchen table for his childish performances but, driven by admiration for his father, also an amateur tenor (with a beautiful voice and singer in the "Corale Rossini" of Modena), he spent whole days in front of the record player, sacking the parent's record estate. In that collection were hidden treasures of all kinds, with great prevalence for the heroes of belcanto, which Pavarotti immediately learned to recognize and imitate.

Michelangelo

Buonarroti

1475-1564

ITALY

Michelangelo Buonarroti was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet. Protagonist of the Italian Renaissance, already alive he was recognized as one of the greatest artists of all time. Overall it was an artist as brilliant as it was restless.