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Post by raptor on Mar 22, 2020 4:09:54 GMT -5
First Name alphabetically A - Z and the Last name of the famous person.
That person has to be in any of the encyclopedias.
Please specify the category ...
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Abraham Lincoln - politician ( 16th president of the United States)
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Post by chopin on Mar 22, 2020 6:21:22 GMT -5
Bruce Lee - Hong Kong-American actor, director, martial artist, martial arts instructor, and philosopher.
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Post by elizab on Mar 22, 2020 7:07:22 GMT -5
Christopher Columbus - Italian explorer
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Post by jan4hs on Mar 22, 2020 14:23:59 GMT -5
Diego Maradona - Argentinian soccer player
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Post by Harry Potter on Mar 22, 2020 18:33:54 GMT -5
Eusébio da Silva Ferreira- Portuguese soccer striker
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Post by raptor on Mar 22, 2020 20:08:30 GMT -5
Frédéric Chopin - Polish composer and virtuoso pianist
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Post by chopin on Mar 23, 2020 1:10:21 GMT -5
Giannis Antetokounmpo - Greek professional NBA player (Milwaukee Bucks) - 4 All-Star selections, 2019 NBA MVP (Most Valuable Player).
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Post by elizab on Mar 23, 2020 2:48:12 GMT -5
Henryk Sienkiewicz - Polish journalist, novelist and Nobel Prize laureate. He is best remembered for his historical novels, especially for his internationally known best-seller "Quo Vadis".
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Post by Harry Potter on Mar 23, 2020 6:26:15 GMT -5
Irena Szewińska
- Polish sprinter, who was one of the world's foremost athletes for nearly two decades, in multiple events ( the 100m, the 200m, the 400m and long jump)
She have held the world record in the 100 m, the 200 m and the 400 m.
Between 1964 and 1980 she participated in 5 Olympic Games, winning 7 medals, 3 of them gold. She also broke 6 world records and is the only athlete (male or female) to have held a world record in the 100 m, 200 m and the 400 m events.
She also won 10 medals in European Championships. Between 1965 and 1979 she gathered 26 national titles and set 38 records in the 100–400 m sprint and long jump.
In 1966, at the European Athletics Championships she won Gold in the long jump, 200 metres and 4 × 100 metre relay; and took a Silver in the 100 metre sprint.
In the 1974 season, she became the first woman to break the 50-second barrier for 400 metres, and she set a new world record of 22.21 s for 200 metres.
She would win her final Olympic medal in Montreal in 1976, by winning the gold in the 400 metres in a world record time of 49.28.
She obtained United Press International Athlete of the Year Award, Female 1974.
In 1998, Szewińska became a member of the International Olympic Committee.[14] She was the president of the Polish Athletic Association 1997–2009.
On 3 August 2005, she was elected as the third woman to the IAAF (International Association of Athletics Federations) Council during the first session of the 45th IAAF Congress in Helsinki.
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Post by jan4hs on Mar 23, 2020 9:26:08 GMT -5
John (Sir) A. Macdonald - First Prime Minister of Canada
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Post by chopin on Mar 24, 2020 1:51:44 GMT -5
Kobe Bryant
- NBA player (Shooting Guard) for Los Angeles Lakers. In 20 years he won five NBA championships, 18-time All-Star... 2008 NBA Most Valuable Player (MVP), two-time NBA Finals MVP winner.
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Post by raptor on Mar 24, 2020 4:30:04 GMT -5
Leonardo da Vinci
- was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography.
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Post by echocat1 on Mar 24, 2020 22:19:28 GMT -5
Michael Jackson ~singer, songwriter and dancer. He was regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th Century and one of the greatest entertainers in the history of music.
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Post by elizab on Mar 24, 2020 23:39:45 GMT -5
Novak Djokovic
Serbian tennis player, ranked world No. 1 in men's singles tennis by ATP.
He has won 17 Grand Slam singles titles, the third-most in history for a male player, five ATP Finals titles, 34 ATP Tour Masters 1000 titles, 14 ATP Tour 500 titles, and has held the No. 1 spot in the ATP rankings for over 280 weeks.
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Post by jan4hs on Mar 25, 2020 0:25:57 GMT -5
Orville Wright
- aviation pioneer who is best known for inventing the airplane with his brother, Wilbur.
On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers succeeded in making the first free, controlled flight of a power-driven airplane.
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