Melina Mercouri was born in 1920. She was an actress , a singer and a politician. She attended the National Theater’s Drama School. She got married to Panos Harokopos and later on married Jules Dassin...
... Some of the films she was in were ‘Stella’ , ‘Never on Sunday’ , ‘Phaedra’ and ‘Topkapi’. She struggled against junta. She also struggled for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. She died in 1994.
Joan of Arc was born in 1412. She was also called ‘The Maid of Orleans’. She was a French heroine....
Marie Curie…
• Marie Curie was born in the 1867 in Poland. She became a professor at the university of Paris. She did research in radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in physics in 1903 with her husband. In 1911 she won the Nobel Prize in chemistry. She discovered polonium and radium. She married Pierre Curie and had two children. She died in 1934.
Odysseas Elytis
• Odysseas Elytis was born in 1911 in Iraklio-Crete.His real name was Odysseas Alepoudelis.He was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1979.Some of his poems are:”Axion Esti’’[“It is worthn”] and ‘’Maria Nefeli”. He died in 1996.
Pele: A famous footballer
Pele was born in 1940. He was a football player and his playing positions
where: forward attacker
midfielder. He also got the Guinness world record for the most career
goals scored in football. Also known as <The black pearl> and <The king of Football>.
In 1999 he was called: <The world player of the century>. He was considered as the best paid athlete. He played for Brazil and a team called <Santos>.
WRIGHT BROTHERS
• Their names were Orville and Wilbur. Orville was born in 1871 and Wilbur was born in 1867.They were American inventors and they built the world’s first successful airplane in 1903. They had a shop with bicycles and an aircraft company.
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