HISTORY & FAMOUS PEOPLE

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Poland

Italy

1517 1895 1957 1986 1999 2006 2013 Antonio FIAT launched Benigni’s film Election of Meucci, the 500, a “La Vita è Pope Francis I inventor of the symbol of the Bella” won the Art

telephone, he economic boom Oscar for best The Italian founded the foreign film and National “Company Rita Levi Guglielmo football team Telettrofono” Montalcini Culture Marconi won the World won the Nobel invented the Cup Prize for radio medicina

1848 1861 1st January 1948 March 8, 1946 1952 1969 July 9, 1978 - June 29, W V.E.R.D.I. Birth of the Italian Italy is part of 1985 Italian Risorgiment constitution Europe Viva Vittorio Emanuele Unification of Italy History Re 1861 – 1886 Movement of D’ university student

Italia Italian Women have Sandro Pertini, hero of the right to vote the Italian Resistance,

becomes President of the Italian Republic Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of Italy

Turkey

16th Century 17th Century 1795 1860 1859 1907 2003 Piri Reis’s First First theatre İstanbul Turkey won “Kitab-ı newspaper in play “Şair Archeology the “Eurovision Bahriye” Turkish Evlenmesi” Museum Song Contest” Art and

Culture

First newspaper in Karacaoğlan, Ottoman

“minstrel” Empire

1071 1101-1147 1299 1915 1923 1924 1927 Republic of Turkish Grand “Speech” by Malazgirt Kılıçarslan Osman 1st, Gallipoli Turkey National Atatürk Pitched Battle defeated founder of the Victory Assembly enemies many Ottoman History times. Empire, begin the Ottoman history.

Germany

1517 1729 1786 1830 1903 1912 2005 Industrial Founding of Founding of Opening of Martin Luther Revolution the „Deutsche the artist group the Holocaust translates the Museum “ in „Der Blaue memorial in Art and bible Munich Reiter“ Goethes first Culture Johann Sebastian travel to Italy; Bach composes the beginning of „Matthäus-passion“ the „Weimarer

Klassik”

800 n. Chr. 1618-1648 1806-1813 1864 - 1918 1914-1918 1949 1961 World War I Founding of The Berlin Wall Empire of „Karl 30. years of Occupation by German the Federal gets built der Große“ war between Napoleon Empire Republic of History catholics and 1939-1945 Germany 1989 protestants World War II The Berlin Wall gets destroyed

1819-1832 :

First trial to unify Germany

Poland

Robert Lewandowski Maria Skłodowska – Curie

Robert Lewandowski was born on 21st Maria Skłodowska - Curie was born on August 1988 in Warsaw. 17th November 1867 in Warsaw. His father played football and did judo. She was the fifth and the youngest Robert’s mother played volleyball. child in the family. Her mother was a He’s got a sister, her name is Milena. pianist and a singer. Her father was a On 22nd June 2013 Robert got married professor of mathematics and physics. to Anna Stachurska, a k arate When Maria finished studies in Poland, champion. she went to France to study at The Robert Lewandowski is one of the most famous Polish footballers University of Paris-Sorbonne. In Paris Maria met Pierre Curie. who plays as a striker for the Polish National Team and for the After some months, Maria fell in love with him. They got married German Bundesliga Club Borussia Dortmund. On 1st July he will on 26th July 1895. Maria Skłodowska - Curie was a very famous start playing for Bayern Munich. Since a little b oy Robert has been Polish scientist, physicist and chemist. Most of her life she spent interested in playing football. He trained very hard. His career in France where she was studying and working in chemical started in Varsovia Warszawa team, then he played for Delta laboratories. She discovered two new chemical elements: radium Warszawa, Legia Warszawa, Znicz Pruszków and Lech Poznań and polonium and created the theory of radioactivity. She was clubs. Robert plays with the number 9th on his T-shirt. Playing in also the first female professor at The University of all matches in his life, Lewandowski scored in total 198 goals. Paris-Sorbonne. Maria Skłodowska - Curie was the first woman Robert is very busy, he spends a lot of time training and travelling who won the Nobel Prize with her husband Pierre Curie in Physics around the world, but he also finds time to visit Znicz Pruszków in 1903. She also won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1911. Maria club and meet with young players. We are very happy that we Skłodowska - Curie died on 4th July 1934 in Passy, France. She is have such a Polish footballer. the only woman who was buried in the Pantheon in Paris.

Italy

CRISTOFORO COLOMBO LEONARDO DA VINCI

Cristoforo Colombo is the the Maybe we know Leonardo da legendary explorer who changed the Vinci as the artist of The Mona European vision of the world by Lisa, but he was much more: let’s discovering The New World in 1942. discover him. He was born in the Republic of He was born on April 15, 1452 in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. Vinci, in Central Italy. At the age He first went to sea as a teenager and of 14, he began apprenticing participated in many trading voyages with the artist Andrea del in the Mediterranean sea. At that Verrocchio. There, for six years, he studied painting, sculpture time Europeans didn’t know a direct and technical arts, including metal and leather working. sea route to China and the land He remained with Verrocchio until he became an independent routes were closed by the strong Ottoman Empire. Contrary to master in 1478. Then he went to Milan to serve as painter, popular legends, Colombo believed that the earth was round, so engineer, architect and sculptor for the ruling Sforza family. He he planned to sail a west route to reach the East. lived also in Rome and he died in Cloux, in France in 1519 at age Finaced by the Queen of Spain, he could organize an expedition 67. and, on August3, 1942 he sat sail from Palos, with three small Among his masterpieces we find The Vitruvian man, “Virgin of the ships, the Nina , the Pinta and the Santa Maria . rocks” painting, The last supper, but also so many inventions such On October 12, her reached the Bahamas. One month later he as flying machines, war machinery, and studies on human arrived to Cuba which he thought was China. In December he anatomy, mechanics, physics and on nature , landed on Hispaniola. He returned to Spain with gold, spices and During his whole life he was so interested in so many disciplines, “Indian” people in March 1493, and he was received by the queen that he symbolized the Renaissance man. He was, wrote Sigmund with the highest honors. Freud, “like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the He died without knowing that, after the Vikings, he was the first others were all still asleep.” European to set foot on America.

Turkey

Sıla Gençoğlu Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

(19 May 1881 – 10 November 1938) was a Turkish army Sıla Gençoğlu (born in June officer, revolutionary 17, 1980) is a Turkish statesman, the founder of the musician . She usually goes republic and the first by her first name, 'Sıla'. President of Turkey. His surname, Atatürk(father of Turks) was granted to him in 1934 by the Turkish Sıla was born in Denizli . She worked before as a producer, lyricist parliament. and background singer for many Turkish artists, such as Kenan After the World War I, he led the Turkish national movement in Doğulu and Emel Müftüoğlu . In 2007, she released her debut the Turkish War of Independence . He defeated the forces sent by album Sıla . The first single, "...Dan Sonra", was the biggest hit the Allies . His military campaigns led to victory in the Turkish War song of the year in Turkey, spending 3 months at number one on of Independence. Atatürk then embarked upon a program of the mu sic charts, and reaching 79 in the European charts. The political, economic, and cultural reforms, seeking to transform the song's video was the 12th most watched video from 2007 to 2008 former Ottoman Empire into a modern, secular , and democratic worldwide. The second single from the album, "Kenar Süsü", nation-state. Under his leadership, thousands of new schools reached second place in the Turkish charts. She is also very were built, prima ry education was made free and compulsory, succesful with he r unplugged videos recorded during radio and women were given equal civil and political rights, The programs (for JOYTURK AKUSTİK). principles of Atatürk's reforms, upon which modern Turkey was established, are referred to as Kemalism.

Germany

Lena Johanna Therese Christian Wilhelm Meyer- Landrut Walter Wulff

Lena Johanna Therese Meyer- Christian Wilhelm Walter Landrut (b orn 23 May 1991), Wulff (born 19 June 1959) is known professionally as Lena , is a a German politician and German singer-. She lawyer. He served as the represented Germany in the President of Germany from 2010 in 2010 to 2012. A member of Oslo, Norway , and won the the Christian Democratic contest with the song "Satellite". Union, he served as Prime With her three entries from the Minister of the state of German national final “ Unser Star Lower Saxony from 2003 to 2010. für Oslo“ (Our Star for Oslo), He was elected President in the 30 June 2010 presidential Meyer-Landrut set an all-time chart record in her home country election, defeating opposition candidate Joachim Gauck and by debuting with three songs in the top five of the German singles taking office immediately, although he was not sworn in until 2 chart. Both "Satellite" and her first album “ “ July. On 17 February 2012, Wulff resigned as President of debuted at number one in Germany, while the former has been Germany, facing the prospect of prosecution for allegations of certified double Platinum since, the album has been certified five corruption relating to his prior service as Prime Minister of Lower times Gold for sales of over 500,000 units. Meyer-Land rut Saxony. On February 27, 2014, two years after his resignation, represented Germany for the second consecutive time in the Christian Wulff was acquitted of all corruption charges by the Eurovision Song Contest at Düsseldorf in 2011 with the song Hanover regional court. "Taken by a Stranger".

• Sehit Mahmut Özdemir Primary School – Ankara – Turkey • Primary School Nr.2 – Pruszkow – Poland • Direxione Didattica 6° - Bircole di Perugia – Italy • Christian-Morgenstern-Volksschule - Herrsching – Germany