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 ALEXANDER GRAHAM
BELL

Bell was born in 1847.He loved his

father. As a pupil he helped deaf
people learn to talk.
Bell immigrated to Ontario in 1870.
In March 1876 Bell sent the first message over a telephone to
Thomas A. Watson who helped him in his workshop. In 1877 he
set up the Bell Telephone Company. By 1878 Bell had already
set up the first telephone exchange and by 1884 long distance
connections were being made between Boston, Massachusetts
and New York.
In 1888 he founded the National Geographic Society.
Bell died at his home in Nova Scotia, Canada, in August 2,
1922.
Bell is an important person worldwide because he invented the
telephone.
 VINCENT VAN GOGH

Vincent van Gogh was a painter.

He was born in 1853. Van Gogh
was very poor because he sold only
one painting during his life. When
he was alive he gave his food to
poor people. When he was a child
he had a mental illness. His brother
helped him get well .In 1880 when he was 27 years old
he decided to become an artist. In 1886 he went to Paris
and met other Impressionist painters. When he went to
Paris he created over 800 paintings and 2,000 drawings.
In 1888 he left Paris and spent the last two years of his
life in Southern France. Van Gogh died in 1890. He was
a famous painter and he influenced other painters too.
One of his paintings was sold for over 800 million
dollars.

Pictures of Van Gogh’s paintings

THOMAS A. EDISON

Thomas A. Edison was born in 1847. He was a

mysterious child. He went to school for three months in
his whole life
When he was 16 he worked in a telegraph office.
After that he went to New York with 1$ in his pocket.
He fixed and improved some equipment in a company
there and the company paid him $ 40,000. Later he made
the first light bulb.
After he had made the light bulb, he worked to make a
power system. Thomas Edison died in 1931.
 ALBERT EINSTEIN

In 1879 Albert Einstein was born in

Germany where he lived. Albert was
known for forgetting dates and numbers,
losing things and had a lot of problems
with the English language. When he was
10 years old his father gave him a
compass which aroused his interest in
science. His first research was written
when he was 16 years old. In 1895 he
wrote his first scientific paper and in 1905 he discovered the
theory of relativity .Later he wrote around 300 scientific papers.
He won the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.In 1946 Einstein
accepted an honorary degree from Lincoln University in
Pennsylvania. In 1952, Albert Einstein died.
 JULES
VERNE
Jules Verne was born on
February 8, 1828.When he was young his father
insisted on him studying the Law but he preferred
writing. When his father realized that, he stopped
supporting him financially. He was forced to make
money from writing so he started by writing plays
and the words for operas. Today he’s known for his
novels.
In 1865 Jules Verne wrote the novel “Alice in
Wonderland” which takes a place in a fantasy world.
In one of his other novels, the character Phileas Fog
travels around the world in a balloon just to win a bet.
In his novels he predicted things happening in the
future. For example, his submarine, Nautilus, in his
novel “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea”
predicted the first power submarine that was made 25
years later.
In 1888 he was elected councilor in Amiens.
Jules Verne had a great imagination. Some of Verne’s
scientific ideas are now outdated but his view of
science in that age is of great value to the modern
reader. Jules Verne is a very famous writer because
he wrote lots of books which are amazing. Many of
his novels became films and he became very rich. He
died in 1905.
 WOLFANG AMADEUS MOZART

Mozart was born in Leopold in 1756.At the age of four

Mozart became an expert in keyboard playing. By the
age of five he was composing short pieces which his
father wrote down for him. At the age of eight Mozart
published his first two sonatas for the harpsichord. By
the age of twenty-five Mozart had become the best
keyboard player in Vienna.
Some of
his most
famous
pieces
include
“Eine
KleineNac
ht Musik” which means ‘A Little Night Music” and his
twelve variations on the French tune ‘’Twinkle Little
Star’’ called Variations on ‘’Ah vous divair-je Maman’’.
Mozart is a very important
person worldwide because he
composed a lot of famous pieces
and he composed music at an
early age.
By:Maria Papioglou
Eleftheria Dampa
 WALT DISNEY
In December 5, 1901, Walt Disney was
born .He was one of five children, four boys
and one girl.
In 1918, Walt Disney tried to join the military
service.
On July 13, 1925, Walt married his employee
Lillian Bounds .In 1932 Walt’s production flowers and
trees won the Academy Award. In 1937, he released
“The Old Mill” and the” Snowhite and the seven Dwarfs.
In 1955, the Disneyland Park opened.
In 1954 Disney began the television production.
When he was younger he often sold drawings to
neighbors to make extra money. Later in his life, he
joined the Red Cross and went to France, where he spent
a year driving an ambulance and the car of a Red Cross
official.
Walt Disney is important because he succeeded in
promoting the American ideals through his films.