Michael Phelps

Young American swimmer Michael Phelps has broken several world records in his sport. Even his record breaking has broken new records: he was the first swimmer ever to shatter two world records in individual events during a single day, and was the first to swim five new fastest times at a world championship meet. Phelps, whose best stroke is the butterfly, is said to possess the perfect build for competitive swimming. He stands more than six-foot four inches in height, and his wingspan, as it is called, is even longer: from finger to finger he measures six-foot seven inches across. These attributes have given him an edge in the highly competitive sport, but those who know him say that it is his inner drive, focus on achieving goals, and likeable personality that make him a winner.

Britney Spears

Born on 2 December 1981 in the small town of Kentwood, Louisiana, to parents Jamie and Lynne Spears, Britney is their second child of three. Her older brother Brian was born in April 1977 and her younger sister, Jamie-Lynn was born in April 1991. From a young age, Britney was always fixing to be a star with idols such as Madonna, Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston, the young Britney could always be heard singing, no matter what else was going on around her.

Britney attended dance classes, and she was great at gymnastics, winning many competitions and the like. But, most of all, Britney loved singing. At age 8, Britney tried out for "MMC" (1989), but was turned down due to her young age. This directed her to an off-Broadway show, "Ruthless", for a 2-year run as the title character. At age 11, she again tried for "MMC" (1989) and this time made it as a mouseketeer along side many stars of today (Justin Timberlake and J.C. Chasez of N*Sync and Ryan Gosling). Her big break, however, came when she was signed as a Jive Recording Artist in the late 90s. With the release of her debut album, "...Baby One More Time" in early 1999, Britney became an international success, selling 13 million copies of "Baby" and 9 million (as of July 2001) of her sophomore album, "Oops!...I Did It Again," released in May of 2000.

Stefanía

Edvard Munch life : Born in Løten, Norway, December 12, 1863, and died in Ekely, near Oslo, January 23, 1944.
He was a Norwegian expressionist painter and printmaker.
In his own country is considered the only Norwegian artist of international resonance.
The cry (1893, originally titled Despair), is his most famous works and considered an icon of existential anguish.
Edvard Munch's family had many problemas . His mother and his sisters died when he was young, and one of his sisters was diagnosed with a mental illness.
His father was a doctor and religious. Munch passed a childhood with numerous diseases. These facts could explain the dark and the pesimism of great part of the work of Munch.

Artistic Works
The cry: Painted in 1893 by Eduard Munch in Paris . This table, express emotions and feelings of its author. On February 12 1994, The cry of the National Gallery in Oslo was stolen by a gang of thieves. On August 22, 2004, the version presented in the Munch Museum was stolen by two masked men, along with Madonna by the same author. Now located at the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.
Bohemians of Cristiani: The painting is titled Sunset on the ride Johann Karl (1892).In the table, the painter envisages the bourgeoisie with the eyes of the bohemian, is trying to show fear and loneliness of the individual within the mass of a big city.
By: Priscila

Michael Jackson

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Michael Joseph Jackson was born in August 29, 1958 in Gary (Indiana). He is a Singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, choreographer, actor, businessman, and financier. His music is hard rock, rhythm & blues (soul and funk), disco and dance.

He is the son of Joseph "Joe" Walter and Katherine Esther , he is the seventh of nine children. His brothers are, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Randy, and his sisters are La Toya, Rebbie and Janet. From a young age Jackson was physically and mentally abused by his father.

Michael Jackson’s career began when he was 10, in the Jackson Five’s group, formed by his five brothers and him.
Referred to as the "King of Pop", five of his solo studio albums have become some of the world’s best-selling records: Off the Wall (1979), Thriller (1982), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and History. But the Best-Seller in the music history was Thriller.

Raquel

PythagoraS

Pythagoras was born on Samos, a Greek island in the eastern Aegean, off the coast of Asia Minor
He is often revered as a great mathematician, mystic and scientist; however some have questioned the scope of his contributions to mathematics and natural philosophy.
Pythagoras undertook a reform of the cultural life of Croton, urging the citizens to follow virtue and form an elite circle of followers around himself called Pythagoreans. He opened his school to both male and female students uniformly. Those who joined the inner circle of Pythagoras's society called themselves the Mathematiko . They lived at the school, owned no personal possessions and were required to assume a mainly vegetarian diet
Pythagoras was very interested in music, and so were his followers.The Pythagoreans were musicians as well as mathematicians. Pythagoras wanted to improve the music of his day, which he believed was not harmonious enough and was too hectic.

Birth
c. 580 BC – 572 BC
Death
c. 500 BC – 490 BC

Raúl

Rafa Nadal

Rafael Nadal Parera is a Spanish professional tennis player. He was born on 3º June 1986 in Manacor, he´s the actual world number one in tennis. Four times Roland Garros champion after winning on 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, and also Wimbledon champion on 2008 and double finalist on 2006 and 2007, gold medal in the Beijing Olympic Games and Sports Prince Asturias Prize on 2008. On 18º August 2008 he became the nº 1 on the ATP ranking after having been second during 160 consecutive weeks. With 12 Masters 1000 prizes, Nadal is in the select group of 4 players in all the history in beating the 10 victories in these tournaments with the numbers one on the world Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and Andre Agassi.

Rafa and Nayara

Alexander Fleming

Alexander Fleming Penicillin’s discoverer
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish biologist and pharmacologist. Fleming published many articles on bacteriology, immunology, and chemotherapy. His best-known achievements are the discovery of the enzyme lysozyme in 1922 and the discovery of the antibiotic substance penicillin from the fungus Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Florey and Chain
Investigations
By 1928, Fleming was investigating the properties of staphylococci. He was already well-known from his earlier work, and had developed a reputation as a brilliant researcher.
After returning from a long holiday, Fleming noticed that many of his culture dishes were contaminated with a fungus, and he threw the dishes in disinfectant. But subsequently, he had to show a visitor what he had been researching, and so he retrieved some of the unsubmerged (tries to mean not submerged) dishes that he would have otherwise discarded.
He then noticed a zone around an invading fungus where the bacteria could not seem to grow. Fleming proceeded to isolate an extract from the mould, correctly identified it as being from the Penicillium genus, and therefore named the agent penicillin.
Resources:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Fleming

Borja Castellano García

Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was a teacher, scientist and inventor. He was the founder of the Bell Telephone Company.
Bell was born in Edinburg, Scotland. His family was known for teaching people how to speak English clearly. His grandfather taught in China, his uncle in Dublin, and his father, Mr. Alexander Melville Bell, in Edinburgh. His father wrote often about this and is most known for his book on Visible Speech. In this, he explains a way of teaching people who are deaf and mute. It shows how these people can learn to speak words by using their eyes to read what other people are saying, and by watching their lips.
Alexander Graham Bell went to the Royal High School of Edinburgh. He graduated at the age of fourteen. At the age of sixteen, he got a job as a student and teacher of elocution and music in Weston House Academy, at Elgin in Morayshire. He spent the next year at the University of Edinburgh. While still in Scotland, he became more interested in the science of sound. He hoped to help his deaf mother. From 1866 to 1867, he was a teacher at Somersetshire College in Bath, Somerset.
In 1870 when he was 23 years old, he moved with his family to Canada where they settled at Brantford, Ontario. Bell began to study communication machines. He made a piano that could be heard far away by using electricity. In 1873, he went with his father to Montreal, Quebec in Canada, where he took a job teaching about "visible speech". His father was asked to teach about it at a large school for deaf mutes in Bsoton, but instead he gave the job to his son. He began teaching there in 1871. Alexander Graham Bell soon became famous in the United States for this important work. He published many writings about it in Washinton D.C. Because of this work, thousands of deaf mutes in America are now able to speak, even though they cannot hear.
In 1876 Bell got a patent for the telephone and started the Bell Telephone Company with others in July, 1877. In 1879, this company joined with the New England Telephone Company to form the National Bell Telephone Company. In 1880, they formed the American Bell Telephone Company, and in 1885, American Telephone and Telegraph Company, still a large company today. Along with Thomas Edison, Bell formed the Oriental Telephone Company on January 25, 1881.
Bell married Mabel Hubbard on July 11, 11877. He died in 1922.

Patricia

Bob Marley

Robert "Bob" Nesta Marley OM(February 6, 1945 – May 11, 1981) was a Jamaican musician, singer-songwriter and Rastafarian. He was the lead singer, songwriter and guitarist for the ska, rocksteady and reggae bands: The Wailers (1964 – 1974) and Bob Marley & the Wailers (1974 – 1981). Marley remains the most widely known and revered performer of reggae music, and is credited for helping spread Jamaican music to the worldwide audience.Bob Marley was born in the small village of Nine Mile in Saint Ann Parish, Jamaica as Nesta Robert Marley. A Jamaican passport official would later swap his first and middle names. His father Norval Sinclair Marley was a white English Jamaican. In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry," from the Natty Dread album.In 1963, Bob Marley, Bunny Livingston, Peter McIntosh, Junior Braithwaite, Beverley Kelso, and Cherry Smith formed a ska and rocksteady group, calling themselves "The Teenagers". In 1975, Marley had his international breakthrough with his first hit outside Jamaica, "No Woman, No Cry," from the Natty Dread album. He died at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Miami, Florida on the morning of May 11,1981 at the age of 36

Manolo

Madonna - Queen of pop

Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone was born in Michigan, United States, the 16th August, 1958.
She is singer, composer and producer of pop, dance and electronic music. She also been devoted to been actress, writer and fashion designer. And now she is debuting as a film director. She has won seven Grammy awards.
In 2000, the book of records Guinness published that Madonna is the most successful female artist of all time.
In 1983 Madonna works in her first album called The first album.


And her last album is called Hard Candy.

Madonna Louise Ciccone Ritchie

PROFESIONAL LIFE

She's known as Madonna and she was bron in Bay City, Míchigan, (U.S.A) on August 16, 1958. Her principal job is singer, but she's also songwriter, dancer, record producer, film director, fashion designer, author and actress. She playes the guitar and percussion.Madonna has been regarded as "one of the greatest pop acts of all time" and dubbed the "Queen of Pop".Guinness World Records list her as the world's most successful female recording artist of all time.

PERSONAL LIFE

Her mother died when she was five years old. The relationship with her father worsed when her mother died. So, in 1977 she went to New York City and she had serious economic problems. Some years ago, on December 22, 2000, Madonna and Guy Ritchie were married in Scotland. On October 15, 2008, a spokeswoman confirmed that Madonna and husband Guy Ritchie plan to divorce.

Leticia & Alexia