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Nome:Ana Luiza de Souza Ebert

Queen Elizabeth II
• The Queen is the only person in all of Britain who is legally
allowed to drive without a driver's license.
• Elizabeth spent the first three months of her reign in public
seclusion due to mourning her father's death.
• Elizabeth's enlistment in World War II in the Women's Auxiliary
Territory Service earned her the title of "Princess Automobile
Mechanic".
• Due to public expressions of her Christian faith, a senior Vatican
official called Queen Elizabeth II "the last Christian monarch."
• Estimates of Queen Elizabeth's private fortune ranged from $530
million to $11 billion.
• In 1981, a teenage girl fired six bullets from a gun at the Queen
while she rode a horse. The teenager has been charged with
treason.
• The crown worn by Queen Elizabeth II weighs almost five kilos
• Elizabeth was the first British monarch to speak at a joint session
of the U.S. Congress.
 Albert Einstein
• He was born into a middle-class Jewish family and had a sister named
Maja, who was two years younger than him.
• The first scientific paper he wrote was at the age of 16. The article was
titled "The Investigation of the State of Ether in Magnetic Fields".
• It was in his article on 'Equivalence of matter and energy' that Einstein
gave his famous formula E = mc² .
• Einstein became director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics and
served from 1913 to 1933..
• Eventually, Einstein concluded that the marriage was over and began to
bond with his cousin, Elsa Löwenthal, and later married her.
• In many letters Einstein wrote to Elsa, he recognized the fact that he
was involved in several extramarital affairs.
• In many letters Einstein wrote to Elsa, he recognized the fact that he
was involved in several extramarital affairs.
• Einstein's eyeballs are preserved in a vault in New York City.
 Michael Jordan
• The former basketball player's lucky charm is a shorts from the University of
North Carolina, for which he was college champion in 1982
• A flea can jump 50 times its own size. The big guy Michael Jordan, who is 6 feet
tall, is six feet tall. To repeat the flea mark, he would have to jump 246.1
meters, almost the height of the Eiffel Tower.
• Michael Jordan has never scored more than 100 points in a match (his record is
96). The Brazilian player Hortência has scored 124.
• The average of 32.3 points per game he has recorded in his career has never
been achieved by another player. In that period, Michael Jordan scored a total
of 21,541 points. He was voted best player in the NBA in 1988, 1991 and 1992.
• The divorce of Michael and Juanita Jordan in December 2006 was considered
the most expensive celebrity divorce of all time – the end of the 17-year
marriage earned Juanita $168 million.
• Jordan has tattooed the Greek letter omega on the left side of his chest.
• Upon leaving basketball, Jordan joined the Chicago White Fox and then the
Birmingham Barons of Alabama, a modest second-division team in American
baseball. He traded a $4 million salary and $30 million in basketball advertising
contracts for a mere $10,000 in baseball. Of 139 matches played at the Barons,
Jordan won 65 and lost 74.
• It wasn't until April 16, 2003, that the player definitely left the courts in a
washington wizards game at the time against the Philadelphia 76ers. This was
the 1072nd match of his career. Jordan retired with a double Olympic
championship and a six-time U.S. league championship on his resume.
 ADOLF HITLER
• A recently opened clothing store in the Indian metropolis of
Ahmedabad is called "Hitler". A swastika dots the letter "i" on
Hitler.
• Hitler's immediate legacy is dramatic and includes the Cold War,
the division of Germany, the Iron Curtain, nuclear weapons and
moral trauma.
• Hitler's longest relationship was with Eva Braun (1912-1945). She
tried to commit suicide twice in an attempt to attract more
attention from Hitler.
• Hitler was a gifted orator, but had a hoarse voice as a result of a
gas attack he suffered during World War I.
• When hitler's close associate Ernst Hanfstaengl told him that his
short mustache was out of fashion, Hitler replied: "If it's not
fashion now, it's because I wear it."
• Historians argue whether Hitler was a natural consequence of
German history or an aberration of it.
• Hitler and Eva Braun's wedding took place in 1945 and they killed
themselves 36 hours later. Braun was 33. Hitler was 56.
• Historians note that Hitler's regime is particularly chilling because
it reveals how a modern, advanced and cultured society can
quickly turn into a barbarity and genocide. In general, Hitler's
dictatorship reveals what we are capable of doing.