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FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM THE PAST Florence Nightingale Florence Nightingale went to the Crimean War to nurse wounded soldiers. She and her nurses saved many lives.Florence was born in 1820. This was ten years before Britain had its first steam passenger railway. She lived through the long reign of Queen Victoria. She died in 1910, after the age of electricity, cars and planes began. Florence Nightingale made hospitals cleaner places. She showed that trained nurses and clean hospitals helped sick people get better. She was the founder of modern nursing.

NAME: Stephen Hawking OCCUPATION: Physicist BIRTH DATE: January 08,

1942 (Age: 71) PLACE OF BIRTH:

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

He was born in Oxford, England, into a family of thinkers. Early in his academic life, Hawking, while recognized as bright, was not an exceptional student. he loved board games, and he and a few close friends created new games of their own. At the age of 16, Hawking, along with several friends, constructed a computer out of recycled parts for solving rudimentary mathematical equations.

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FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM THE PAST NAME: Frida Kahlo OCCUPATION: Painter BIRTH DATE: July 06, 1907 DEATH DATE: July 13, 1954 EDUCATION: National

Preparatory School PLACE OF BIRTH: Mexico City,

Mexico PLACE OF DEATH: Mexico City,

Mexico

Painter Frida Kahlo was a Mexican self-portrait artist who was married to Diego Rivera and is still admired as a feminist icon.

Artist Freda Kahlo was born Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo y Calderón on July 6, 1907, in Coyocoán, Mexico City, Mexico. Considered one of Mexico’s greatest artists, Frida Kahlo began painting after she was severely injured in a bus accident.Mother Teresa - God's gift to humanity - dedicated a major part of her life to serve the poor and destitute. Born as an Albanian, getting an Indian nationality later on, she became the Mother of the sick, destitute as well as impoverished. The Roman Catholic nun was the founder of Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta in India. All through her life, Mother Teresa helped and served people suffering from various incurable diseases, affected by natural calamities and those unwanted by the society. Love, humanity and helping others selflessly were her reasons to live on Earth.

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FAMOUS PEOPLE FROM THE PAST

Read the text and describe these famous people completing the following chart.

Famous People Physically

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Personality

Florence Nightingale

Stephen Hawking

Frida Kahlo

Mother Teresa