He was born in Pella in 356 BC. ..................... He conquered the Persian Empire, reached India and laid the foundations for the Hellenistic world., Pericles, Alexander the Great, Achilles, He is generally considered one of the greatest Dutch painters of all time. He was a struggling genius, working unappreciated in isolation. .........., Vincent van Gogh, El Greco, Michelangelo, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, He revolutionised physics with his theories of relativity. ........................................................ ., Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, He was born in England in 1564. He was one of the greatest poets and playwrights. His most famous tragedies include Hamlet, King Lear and Macbeth., Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, El Greco, Charles Dickens, He was one of the greatest warriors and heroes in Greek mythology. The only vulnerable part of his body was his heel., Alexander the Great, Ajax, Hercules, Achilles, He was an Athenian statesman, largely responsible for the full development, in the later 5th century BC, of the Athenian democracy., Alexander the Great, Ajax, Hercules, Pericles, He was a French aviator and writer. One of his novellas (published in 1943) has become a modern classic. It tells the story of a boy who travels the universe gaining wisdom, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, He was a British statesman and author. During the 2nd World War he led his country from the brink of defeat to victory., Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln, Bernard Montgomery, He is best known for developing the life-saving cervical cancer test commonly known as the Pap smear., Vasco da Gama, Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Alexander the Great, She was a Greek operatic soprano, the most exciting opera singer of her generation. From 1950 her career centred at La Scala (the leading opera house in Italy) in Milan., Marlene Dietrich, Maria Callas, Marika Kotopouli, Marie Curie, She was a catholic nun of Albanian origin. In 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize for her humanitarian work., Joan of Arc, Helen Keller, Mother Teresa, Marie Curie, He was an American statesman who led the nation through the American Civil War and brought about the end of slavery in the United States., Lord Byron, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, She was a Polish-born French physicist, famous for her work on radioactivity and twice a winner of the Nobel Prize., Marie Curie, Emily Dickinson, Helen Keller, Simone de Beauvoir, One of the stories of this great English novelist has become a Christmas classic. It was published in1843 and it tells of a mean old man called Scrooge, who has a series of visions on Christmas Eve..., Walter Scott, D.H. Lawrence, Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens

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