This document provides brief biographies of several famous historical figures:
- Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, a Spanish novelist considered to have written the first modern European novel, Don Quixote
- Nicolas Marc Courtois, a Belgian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Atlético Madrid and the Belgium national team
- José Mourinho, a Portuguese football manager currently coaching Real Madrid, regarded as one of the best football coaches ever
- Marie Curie, a Polish-French physicist and chemist who was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in both physics and chemistry
3. • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Was a Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright.
His magnum opus, Don Quixote, considered to
be the first modern European novel.
His influence on the Spanish language has been
so great that the language is often called ``the
language of Cervantes´´
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5. • Nicolas Marc Courtois (born 11 May 1992) is a
Belgian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper
for La Liga club Atlético Madrid on loan from
Chelsea and for the Belgium national football
team.
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7. • José Mourinho is a Portuguese football
manager, currently the head coach of Real
Madrid. He is commonly known as "The
Special One". Mourinho is regarded by some
players, coaches, and critics as one of the best
football coaches of all time.
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9. • William Shakespeare was an English poet and
playwright, widely regarded as the greatest
writer in the English language and the world's
pre-eminent dramatis.
His plays have been translated into every major
living language and are performed more often
than those of any other playwright
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11. • Marie Curie or Madame Curie was a Polish
physicist and chemist, working mainly in France,
who is famous for her pioneering research on
radioactivity. She was the first woman to win a
Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields,
and the only person to win in multiple sciences.
She was also the first female professor at the
University of Paris (La Sorbonne), and in 1995
became the first woman to be entombed on her
own merits in Paris' Panthéon.
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13. Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and
teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects,
including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric,
linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology.
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15. Albert Einstein was a German physicist who worked on the theory of
relativity.
He received the Nobel Physics Prize for his essay.
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17. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential Austrian
composer of the Classical era.
Mozart showed prodigious ability from his earliest childhood.
Already competent on keyboard and violin, he composed from the
age of five and performed before European royalty. At 17, he was
engaged as a court musician in Salzburg, but grew restless and
travelled in search of a better position, always composing
abundantly.
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19. Benito Mussolini was an Italian politician, journalist and leader
of the National Fascist Party, ruling the country from 1922 to his
ousting in 1943. In 1926 Mussolini seized total power
as dictator and ruled Italy as Il Duce.
Mussolini was one of the key figures in the creation of fascism.
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21. Napoleon as a French military and political leader who rose to
prominence during the latter stages of the French Revolution and
its associated wars in Europe.
As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815.