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Name: Andrea Bocelli
Date of Birth: September 22, 1958

Age: 63 years old

Hometown: Lajatico, Italy

Hobbies and interest: music, to sing and to play multi-instruments

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He was diagnosed with Visually impaired from birth (congenital glaucoma at 5 months old) and became completely blind at age 12, following a football accident.
He is unique and special because the multi-platinum-selling Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli reached a mainstream pop audience with his beautiful opera.
Bocelli aptly caters to both the pop and operatic worlds, appealing to ardent fans of both types of music with his remarkably lovely voice and he prefers singing opera to pop because the pop music has a big audience and through the songs it's possible to bring people into the theatres who might not have come any other way.

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Full name: Shoshannah Oppenheimer Stern

Date of Birth:  July 3, 1980

Age:  41 years old

Birthplace: Walnut Creek, California (USA).

Hobbies and interests: Stern has always been passionate about acting.
Died: June 28, 1981 (aged 22)

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In spite of being deaf, Shoshannah is a true inspiration not only to deaf women, but women everywhere.
Ms. Stern’s role will hopefully start to bridge the gap between the deaf and hearing worlds, as well as open doors for more deaf actors and actresses. When a trait generally considered “different” is presented as normal, it starts to change the mindset of the viewer because it helps to normalize deaf culture.

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Full name: Jessica Tatiana Long
Date of Birth: February 29, 1992
Age:  29 years old
Hometown: Bratsk (Russia)
Hobbies and interest: Sport, leadership and  marketing.

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Full name: Patrick Blake Leeper
Date of Birth: August 31, 1989
Age: 32 years old
Hometown: Kingsport,Tennessee (USA).
Hobbies and interest: Sport (track and field) and public speaking (motivate and influence an audience).

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Leeper was born without legs from a congenital birth defect (fibular hemimelia).

He is special and unique because without legs and with his persistent attitude, he is an eight-time Paralympic Track and Field international medalist, world record holder and three-time American record holder. Over his career, he hopes to win more medals than any Paralympic athlete in track and field. He is also striving to be the first American track and field Paralympian who qualifies for the able -bodied Olympic trials.
In June of 2018, running in a field of able-bodied runners, he shattered his own world record in the 400 meters, coming in at 44.42, the fastest time ever by an amputee.
Leeper is an athlete very persistent and never gives up!

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Full name: Terrance Stanley Fox

Date of Birth: July 28, 1958

Hometown: Winnipeg, Manitoba (Canada).

Hobbies and interest: Sports and cancer research fundraising activities

Died: June 28, 1981 (aged 22)

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Due to a malignant tumour, the treatment was amputation of his leg, followed by chemotherapy to ensure that there was no propagation of cancerous cells.
He was a unique and special person because: He never gave up; he did not have much time to dwell on the "problem", he continued to train every day.
He was a brave Canadian athlete, humanitarian, and cancer research activist and the most important, he decided to run with his prosthetic leg across Canada to raise awareness and money for cancer research and he achieved his dream of raising one dollar for each Canadian.

PD. The Terry Fox Run held each year in more than 25 countries and 750 places.

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Full name: Louis Braille
Date of Birth: January 4, 1809
Hometown: Coupvray, France.
Hobbies and interest:  He composed his own music.
Died: January 6, 1852

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When Braille was three years old, he injured one of his eyes with an awl, then both his eyes eventually became infected, and by the time Braille was five, he was completely blind.

He was unique and special because  he was determined to workhard in his limitation to take advantage of the opportunity and reaped as much as possible from it. He developed a raised-dot code that enabled blind people to read and write.

His system is the globally accepted code for those with visual impairments.

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Full name: Stella Jane Young
Date of Birth: February 24, 1982.
Hometown: Stawell, Victoria, Australia
Hobbies and interest: She loved to do comedy and she was disability rights activist.
Died: December 6, 2014 (aged 32).

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Stella was born with osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic disorder that causes bones to break easily.

She is unique because at the age of fourteen, she began a life of advocacy for people living with disability, and was an ambassador for Our Watch as well as a member of various boards and councils including Victorian Disability Advisory Council, the Ministerial Advisory Council for the Department of Victorian Communities, the Youth Disability Advocacy Service, and Women with Disabilities Victoria. She was a prominent disability activist, writer and comedian. Stella helped us understand disability issues by sharing with a raw honesty about her own life and forcing us to reconsider how we think about disability and create an environment where those with disability can best get on with their own lives.

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Stella Young is a comedian and journalist who happens to go about her day in a wheelchair — a fact that doesn’t, she’d like to make clear, automatically turn her into a noble inspiration to all humanity. In this very funny talk, Young breaks down society’s habit of turning disabled people into “inspiration porn.”

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Full name: Stephen William Hawking
Date of Birth: January 8, 1942.
Hometown: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
Hobbies and interest: He loved board games so,  he created new games.
He liked construct computers out of recycled parts for solving rudimentary mathematical equation and He liked physical and cosmology.
Died: March 14, 2018 (aged 76)

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After falling while ice skating during his first year as a grad student at Cambridge University, he contracted amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ELA), an incurable degenerative neuromuscular disease, he was told he had only two-and-a-half years to live.

He was a unique and special person because he continued to work despite the disease’s progressively disabling effects, the loss of motor skills forced the burgeoning cosmologist to become more creative and few people emerge from the fields of cosmology and theoretical physics with the sort of name recognition equal to that of a celebrity athlete or actor, but that's exactly what happened with Stephen Hawking. Thanks to his groundbreaking work with black holes and relativity, he went on to hold distinguished academic posts, be appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire and earn the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom ... all while his body deteriorated from a crippling disease. Furthermore, he wrote his books using his vocal synthesizer.

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Stephen Hawking, the world-famous theoretical physicist, has died at the age of 76.

Hawking's children, Lucy, Robert and Tim said in a statement: "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today.

"He was a great scientist and an extraordinary man whose work and legacy will live on for many years. His courage and persistence with his brilliance and humour inspired people across the world.

"He once said: 'It would not be much of a universe if it wasn't home to the people you love.' We will miss him for ever."

Tributes flow in following the death of world-famous theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking

The most recognisable scientist of our age, Hawking holds an iconic status. His genre-defining book, A Brief History of Time, has sold more than 10 million copies since its publication in 1988, and has been translated into more than 35 languages. He appeared on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Simpsons and The Big Bang Theory. His early life was the subject of an Oscar-winning performance by Eddie Redmayne in the 2014 film The Theory of Everything. He was routinely consulted for oracular pronouncements on everything from time travel and alien life to Middle Eastern politics and nefarious robots. He had an endearing sense of humour and a daredevil attitude - relatable human traits that, combined with his seemingly superhuman mind, made Hawking eminently marketable.

But his cultural status - amplified by his disability and the media storm it invoked - often overshadowed his scientific legacy. That's a shame for the man who discovered what might prove to be the key clue to the theory of everything, advanced our understanding of space and time, helped shape the course of physics for the last four decades and whose insight continues to drive progress in fundamental physics today.

Beginning with the big bang

Hawking's research career began with disappointment. Arriving at the University of Cambridge in 1962 to begin his PhD, he was told that Fred Hoyle, his chosen supervisor, already had a full complement of students. The most famous British astrophysicist at the time, Hoyle was a magnet for the more ambitious students. Hawking didn't make the cut. Instead, he was to work with Dennis Sciama, a physicist Hawking knew nothing about. In the same year, Hawking was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, a degenerative motor neurone disease that quickly robs people of the ability to voluntarily move their muscles. He was told he had two years to live.

Although Hawking's body may have weakened, his intellect stayed sharp. Two years into his PhD, he was having trouble walking and talking, but it was clear that the disease was progressing more slowly than the doctors had initially feared. Meanwhile, his engagement to Jane Wilde - with whom he later had three children, Robert, Lucy and Tim - renewed his drive to make real progress in physics.

Stephen and Lucy Hawking

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Working with Sciama had its advantages. Hoyle's fame meant that he was seldom in the department, whereas Sciama was around and eager to talk. Those discussions stimulated the young Hawking to pursue his own scientific vision. Hoyle was vehemently opposed to the big bang theory (in fact, he had coined the name "big bang" in mockery). Sciama, on the other hand, was happy for Hawking to investigate the beginning of time.

Time's arrow

Hawking was studying the work of Roger Penrose, which proved that if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct, at the heart of every black hole must be a point where space and time themselves break down - a singularity. Hawking realised that if time's arrow were reversed, the same reasoning would hold true for the universe as a whole. Under Sciama's encouragement, he worked out the maths and was able to prove it: the universe according to general relativity began in a singularity.

Hawking was well aware, however, that Einstein didn't have the last word. General relativity, which describes space and time on a large scale, doesn't take into account quantum mechanics, which describes matter's strange behaviour at much smaller scales. Some unknown "theory of everything" was needed to unite the two. For Hawking, the singularity at the universe's origin did not signal the breakdown of space and time; it signalled the need for quantum gravity.

Luckily, the link that he forged between Penrose's singularity and the singularity at the big bang provided a key clue for finding such a theory. If physicists wanted to understand the origin of the universe, Hawking had just shown them exactly where to look: a black hole.

Black holes were a subject ripe for investigation in the early 1970s. Although Karl Schwarzschild had found such objects lurking in the equations of general relativity back in 1915, theoreticians viewed them as mere mathematical anomalies and were reluctant to believe they could actually exist.

Albeit frightening, their action is reasonably straightforward: black holes have such strong gravitational fields that nothing, not even light, can escape their grip. Any matter that falls into one is forever lost to the outside world. This, however, is a dagger in the heart of thermodynamics.

Thermodynamic threat

The second law of thermodynamics is one of the most well-established laws of nature. It states that the entropy, or level of disorder in a system, always increases. The second law gives form to the observation that ice cubes will melt into a puddle, but a puddle of water will never spontaneously turn into a block of ice. All matter contains entropy, so what happens when it is dropped into a black hole? Is entropy lost along with it? If so, the total entropy of the universe goes down and black holes would violate the second law of thermodynamics.

Hawking thought that this was fine. He was happy to discard any concept that stood in the way to a deeper truth. And if that meant the second law, then so be it.

Bekenstein and breakthrough

But Hawking met his match at a 1972 physics summer school in the French ski resort of Les Houches, France. Princeton University graduate student Jacob Bekenstein thought that the second law of thermodynamics should apply to black holes too. Bekenstein had been studying the entropy problem and had reached a possible solution thanks to an earlier insight of Hawking's.

A black hole hides its singularity with a boundary known as the event horizon. Nothing that crosses the event horizon can ever return to the outside. Hawking's work had shown that the area of a black hole's event horizon never decreases over time. What's more, when matter falls into a black hole, the area of its event horizon grows.

Bekenstein realised this was key to the entropy problem. Every time a black hole swallows matter, its entropy appears to be lost, and at the same time, its event horizon grows. So, Bekenstein suggested, what if - to preserve the second law - the area of the horizon is itself a measure of entropy?

Hawking immediately disliked the idea and was angry that his own work had been used in support of a concept so flawed. With entropy comes heat, but the black hole couldn't be radiating heat - nothing can escape its pull of gravity. During a break from the lectures, Hawking got together with colleagues Brandon Carter, who also studied under Sciama, and James Bardeen, of the University of Washington, and confronted Bekenstein.

The disagreement bothered Bekenstein. "These three were senior people. I was just out of my PhD. You worry whether you are just stupid and these guys know the truth," he recalls.

Back in Cambridge, Hawking set out to prove Bekenstein wrong. Instead, he discovered the precise form of the mathematical relationship between entropy and the black hole's horizon. Rather than destroying the idea, he had confirmed it. It was Hawking's greatest breakthrough.

Hawking radiation

Hawking now embraced the idea that thermodynamics played a part in black holes. Anything that has entropy, he reasoned, also has a temperature - and anything that has a temperature can radiate.

His original mistake, Hawking realised, was in only considering general relativity, which says that nothing - no particles, no heat - can escape the grip of a black hole. That changes when quantum mechanics comes into play. According to quantum mechanics, fleeting pairs of particles and antiparticles are constantly appearing out of empty space, only to annihilate and disappear in the blink of an eye. When this happens in the vicinity of an event horizon, a particle-antiparticle pair can be separated - one falls behind the horizon while one escapes, leaving them forever unable to meet and annihilate. The orphaned particles stream away from the black hole's edge as radiation. The randomness of quantum creation becomes the randomness of heat.

"I think most physicists would agree that Hawking's greatest contribution is the prediction that black holes emit radiation," says Sean Carroll, a theoretical physicist at the California Institute of Technology. "While we still don't have experimental confirmation that Hawking's prediction is true, nearly every expert believes he was right."

Experiments to test Hawking's prediction are so difficult because the more massive a black hole is, the lower its temperature. For a large black hole - the kind astronomers can study with a telescope - the temperature of the radiation is too insignificant to measure. As Hawking himself often noted, it was for this reason that he was never awarded a Nobel Prize. Still, the prediction was enough to secure him a prime place in the annals of science, and the quantum particles that stream from the black hole's edge would forever be known as Hawking radiation.

Some have suggested that they should more appropriately be called Bekenstein-Hawking radiation, but Bekenstein himself rejects this. "The entropy of a black hole is called Bekenstein-Hawking entropy, which I think is fine. I wrote it down first, Hawking found the numerical value of the constant, so together we found the formula as it is today. The radiation was really Hawking's work. I had no idea how a black hole could radiate. Hawking brought that out very clearly. So that should be called Hawking radiation."

Theory of everything

The Bekenstein-Hawking entropy equation is the one Hawking asked to have engraved on his tombstone. It represents the ultimate mash-up of physical disciplines because it contains Newton's constant, which clearly relates to gravity; Planck's constant, which betrays quantum mechanics at play; the speed of light, the talisman of Einstein's relativity; and the Boltzmann constant, the herald of thermodynamics.

The presence of these diverse constants hinted at a theory of everything, in which all physics is unified. Furthermore, it strongly corroborated Hawking's original hunch that understanding black holes would be key in unlocking that deeper theory.

Hawking's breakthrough may have solved the entropy problem, but it raised an even more difficult problem in its wake. If black holes can radiate, they will eventually evaporate and disappear. So what happens to all the information that fell in? Does it vanish too? If so, it will violate a central tenet of quantum mechanics. On the other hand, if it escapes from the black hole, it will violate Einstein's theory of relativity. With the discovery of black hole radiation, Hawking had pit the ultimate laws of physics against one another. The black hole information loss paradox had been born.

Hawking staked his position in another ground-breaking and even more contentious paper entitled Breakdown of predictability in gravitational collapse, published in Physical Review D in 1976. He argued that when a black hole radiates away its mass, it does take all of its information with it - despite the fact that quantum mechanics expressly forbids information loss. Soon other physicists would pick sides, for or against this idea, in a debate that continues to this day. Indeed, many feel that information loss is the most pressing obstacle in understanding quantum gravity.

"Hawking's 1976 argument that black holes lose information is a towering achievement, perhaps one of the most consequential discoveries on the theoretical side of physics since the subject was invented," says Raphael Bousso of the University of California, Berkeley.

Concession

By the late 1990s, results emerging from string theory had most theoretical physicists convinced that Hawking was wrong about information loss, but Hawking, known for his stubbornness, dug in his heels. It wasn't until 2004 that he would change his mind. And he did it with flair - dramatically showing up at a conference in Dublin and announcing his updated view: black holes cannot lose information.

Today, however, a new paradox known as the firewall has thrown everything into doubt (see "Hawking's paradox", below). It is clear that the question Hawking raised is at the core of the quest for quantum gravity.

"Black hole radiation raises serious puzzles we are still working very hard to understand," says Carroll. "It's fair to say that Hawking radiation is the single biggest clue we have to the ultimate reconciliation of quantum mechanics and gravity, arguably the greatest challenge facing theoretical physics today."

Hawking's legacy, says Bousso, will be "having put his finger on the key difficulty in the search for a theory of everything".

Hawking continued pushing the boundaries of theoretical physics at a seemingly impossible pace for the rest of his life. He made important inroads towards understanding how quantum mechanics applies to the universe as a whole, leading the way in the field known as quantum cosmology. His progressive disease pushed him to tackle problems in novel ways, which contributed to his remarkable intuition for his subject. As he lost the ability to write out long, complicated equations, Hawking found new and inventive methods to solve problems in his head, usually by reimagining them in geometric form. But, like Einstein before him, Hawking never produced anything quite as revolutionary as his early work.

"Hawking's most influential work was done in the 1970s, when he was younger," says Carroll, "but that's completely standard even for physicists who aren't burdened with a debilitating neurone disease."

Hawking the superstar

In the meantime, the publication of A Brief History of Time catapulted Hawking to cultural stardom and gave a fresh face to theoretical physics. He never seemed to mind. "In front of the camera, Hawking played the character of Hawking. He seemed to play with his cultural status," says Hélène Mialet, an anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley, who courted controversy in 2012 with the publication of her book Hawking Incorporated. In it, she investigated the way the people around Hawking helped him build and maintain his public image.

That public image undoubtedly made his life easier than it might otherwise have been. As Hawking's disease progressed, technologists gladly provided increasingly complicated machines to allow him to communicate. This, in turn, let him continue doing the thing for which he should ultimately be remembered: his science.

"Stephen Hawking has done more to advance our understanding of gravitation than anyone since Einstein," Carroll says. "He was a world-leading theoretical physicist, clearly the best in the world for his time among those working at the intersection of gravity and quantum mechanics, and he did it all in the face of a terrible disease. He is an inspirational figure, and history will certainly remember him that way."

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Date of Birth: June 27, 1880
Hometown: Tuscumbia, Alabama
Hobbies and interest: Activism and art. She enjoyed the animals including the horses, dogs and chickens.
Died: June 1, 1968.

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Date of Birth: December 4, 1982.
Age: 38 years old.
Hometown: Melbourne, Australia.
Hobbies and interest:  Writer, social activist, and motivational speaker.

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She was deafblind (a rare condition in which an individual has combined hearing and vision loss, thus limiting access to both auditory and visual information) due to a high fever and a bad hadache for several days when she was around one and a half years old.

She is special and unique because she did learn, even though she couldn't see or hear. She learned other methods of communication, including Braille and a method known as Tadoma, in which hands on a person's face touching lips, throat, jaw and nose are used to feel vibrations and movements associated with speech. Keller, too, learned to speak.

She ​was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree, she wrote a total of twelve published books, she campaigned heavily for women’s rights and other labour rights, and was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Lyndon Johnson in 1964.

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He was born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of arms and legs.

He is unique and special because he faced tremendous obstacles in life from, living life without limbs and to being bullied at school, he persevered through life’s challenges and discovered key principles which enabled him to find his purpose and turn obstacles into opportunities; making him one of the most sought-after keynote speakers!

Millions of people have found hope, purpose and the strength to overcome their challenges through Nick’s inspirational speeches. Furthermore, Nick teaches students to make positive changes in their lives and their communities.

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Helen Keller was an author, lecturer, and crusader for the handicapped. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, She lost her sight and hearing at the age of nineteen months to an illness now believed to have been scarlet fever. Five years later, on the advice of Alexander Graham Bell, her parents applied to the Perkins Institute for the Blind in Boston for a teacher, and from that school hired Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Through Sullivan's extraordinary instruction, the little girl learned to understand and communicate with the world around her. She went on to acquire an excellent education and to become an important influence on the treatment of the blind and deaf.

Keller learned from Sullivan to read and write in Braille and to use the hand signals of the deaf-mute, which she could understand only by touch. Her later efforts to learn to speak were less successful, and in her public appearances she required the assistance of an interpreter to make herself understood. Nevertheless, her impact as educator, organizer, and fund-raiser was enormous, and she was responsible for many advances in public services to the handicapped.

With Sullivan repeating the lectures into her hand, Keller studied at schools for the deaf in Boston and New York City and graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College in 1904. Her unprecedented accomplishments in overcoming her disabilities made her a celebrity at an early age; at twelve she published an autobiographical sketch in the Youth's Companion, and during her junior year at Radcliffe, she produced her first book, The Story of My Life, still in print in over fifty languages. Keller published four other books of her personal experiences as well as a volume on religion, one on contemporary social problems, and a biography of Anne Sullivan. She also wrote numerous articles for national magazines on the prevention of blindness and the education and special problems of the blind.

In addition to her many appearances on the lecture circuit, Keller in 1918 made a movie in Hollywood, Deliverance, to dramatize the plight of the blind and during the next two years supported herself and Sullivan on the vaudeville stage. She also spoke and wrote in support of women's rights and other liberal causes and in 1940 strongly backed the United States' entry into World War II.

In 1924, Keller joined the staff of the newly formed American Foundation for the Blind as an adviser and fund-raiser. Her international reputation and warm personality enabled her to enlist the support of many wealthy people, and she secured large contributions from Henry Ford, John D. Rockefeller, and leaders of the motion picture industry. When the AFB established a branch for the overseas blind, it was named Helen Keller International. Keller and Sullivan were the subjects of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play, The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson, which opened in New York in 1959 and became a successful Hollywood film in 1962.

Widely honored throughout the world and invited to the White House by every U.S. president from Grover Cleveland to Lyndon B. Johnson, Keller altered the world's perception of the capacities of the handicapped. More than any act in her long life, her courage, intelligence, and dedication combined to make her a symbol of the triumph of the human spirit over adversity.

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Nick Vujicic: biography

Nick Vujicic is a famous Christian evangelist, writer, social activist, and motivational speaker from Australia.

Nick Vujicic

Charismatic, buoyant orator, Vujicic earned international popularity despite the fact that he was born without arms and legs.

Childhood and youth

Nicholas James Vujicic was born in Melbourne into the family of Dušanka and Borislav Vujičić who migrated to Australia from Serbia. The father was present at childbirth; as soon as he saw the boy's shoulder without an arm, he rushed to a corridor, horrified. Later, he asked a doctor if his son was born without an arm. The sad doctor told him the boy had no arms and legs: it was the tetra-amelia syndrome.

Nick Vujicic in his childhood

The disease took the baby's arms, and he had an underdeveloped foot with toes grown together. Surprisingly, Nick's health was perfect if it had not been for this physical condition. The boy's brother and sister had no health issues.

The mother did not breastfeed the baby for the first four months; the parents did not know how to handle him. Little by little, they got used to the special boy and loved him just like he was.

Nick Vujicic loves surfing

Right after the child was born, he had surgery that separated his toes. Thus, Nick got the only limb to explore the world. He learned how to write with it and even skateboard pushing his body.

Little Vujicic felt dispirited by his physical condition. The parents insisted their son should go to an ordinary school, and the boy saw himself as somebody flawed. Peers often bullied Nick; he could not protect himself. When the boy was six, his cousin died of cancer; it was a severe shock for the would-be orator.

Nick Vujicic with his parents

At the age of ten, he decided to commit suicide, but the thoughts about his family kept him away from that: the boy realized how much it would hurt them. At that period, Nick found himself in Christianity and got acquainted with God's love that filled everything and accepted imperfect people.

Speeches

At 17, Vujicic delivered his first preach to church visitors. At the age of 19, the young man was invited to give a speech for Griffith University students; he studied there. The event was a success, and young Australians absorbed Nick's ideas. This is when Vujicic realized that motivating people with the world of the Lord was the meaning of his life.

The young preacher's non-standard appearance, charm, and love of life made him popular. In 1999, he founded the religious charity organization Life Without Limbs. The next several years, Nick's popularity was growing so immensely that he gained the prestigious Young Australian of the Year Award.

Vujicic always educates himself. He has two higher educations (accounting and financing). Besides, he owns the motivation company Attitude Is Altitude.

To share his worldview to the broad audience, Nick Vujicic organized many lectures and preaches. He has visited more than 45 countries; for instance, he delivered motivational speeches in Moscow and St. Petersburg in Match 2015. Some 110 000 people went to listen to him in India.

Nick Vujicic likes to travel

Vujicic has a great sense of humor. One day, he had to go to another city to hold a meeting. He entered a plane, found his place, and introduced himself as the plane's captain. Several seconds of silence followed, and everybody burst out laughing.

Nick Vujicic in the Kremlin in 2016

Nick promotes the idea of unconditional love. He held a marathon to support it: he hugged 1500 participants. The man often uses the Internet and posts videos, blog notes, and Instagram photos. Besides, people devour the preacher's books where he describes his life and reflects on people's place in the world.

Books and movies

In 2009, Nick appeared in The Butterfly Circus by Joshua Weigel. The short movie shows the circle with unusual artists: an old man flying at the top of the circus, a kind and gracious acrobat girl, a flexible man who can place himself in a suitcase. However, Vujicic is the main character: he is an object for everybody's contempt, and people throw tomatoes at him.

It is the story about the strong person who listens to his heart and begins to live a full life, even though he has no arms or legs. The story is similar to Nick's life. The Butterfly Circus became one of the best motivational movies and took prizes at Ashland, Heartland, Sedona, and Method Fest.

The writer's bibliography includes four bestsellers. He talks about strong will that can be developed if a person believes in themselves and tries to achieve a high goal. The first book, Life Without Limits: Inspiration of a Ridiculously Good Life, came out in 2010 and marked the beginning of the preacher's phenomenon.

Nick Vujicic's books

Nick not only tells his own story but also shares the principles of a happy life. The absence of limbs does not prevent him from enjoying his life: Vujicic can go surfing, swimming, and ski jumping. He types 43 words per minute.

Three years later, the speaker presented the second book, Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action.

Nick Vujicic's Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action

In this text, Vujicic described how he managed to transform faith into action and paid much attention to the challenges that every person has to face. Stand Strong followed in 2015 and proved to be equally popular; the quotes from the book go viral on the Internet.

Personal life

Nick was a loving boy; he fell in love with a girl Megan when he was an elementary school student.

At 19, the young man fell in love again; the relationship was pretty difficult. The platonic romance lasted for four years, and the feelings faded away eventually. Nick thought he would never have his own family, but it was not true.

Nick Vujicic and Kanae Miyahara

When Nick saw his future wife for the first time, his emotions were overwhelming; he felt like he had arms and legs. Kanae Miyahara is half Japanese and half Mexican; the woman's father moved to Mexico and organized his own business. Later, when the man died, the family moved to the United States. Kanae went to the same Evangelic church as Nick.

Three months after the meeting, in spring 2011, the couple decided to live together. It was challenging, but Miyahara quickly got used to the daily routine peculiarities. At that moment, Nick lost all his savings because of the economic crisis, but the woman did not leave him; she showed much wisdom and patience.

Nick Vujicic's wedding

In 2012, the man put an engagement ring into a box of chocolate ice cream that Kanae liked, and proposed to her; she accepted the proposal. The wedding ceremony was modest; only a few pictures appeared on the Internet. Nick described his love story in the 2016 book Love Without Limits.

The writer's wife loves her husband and helps him with his charity and preaching work. The couple often attends social events and sports matches.

Nick Vujicic with his wife and son

The next year, on Valentine's Day, Nick's first child, the son Kiyoshi James, was born. Fortunately, the baby was absolutely healthy and did not inherit his father's problems. The young parents were on cloud nine. Two years later, the second son, Dejan Levi, was born.

In 2017, the Vujicic family welcomed the twin girls: Ellie and Olivia. Nick shared the happy news on Facebook.

Nick Vujicic with his wife and daughters Olivia and Ellie

People from all over the world sent thank-you letters and presents to express their gratitude.

Today, Nick Vujicic and his family live in California. The man likes to fish and play golf and soccer in his spare time. The true Australian, Vujicic loves the sea and often goes surfing.

Nick Vujicic is an inspirational example for disabled people

The speaker regularly posts pictures on Instagram: lecture photos, personal announcements, family routine, and meetings with disabled people. Fans particularly like to see their favorite play gold.

Present days

Today, Nick Vujicic continues to carry out his mission; his speeches are scheduled for years. The man is ready to go to the end of the world to inspire people in despair.

Nick Vujicic in Kyiv in 2018

In 2018, the speaker visited Moscow, St. Petersburg, and several Ukrainian cities: Lviv, Zhytomyr, Kyiv, and Odessa.

Nick Vujicic's net worth is $500,000 in 2019.

Filmography

2009 - The Butterfly Circus

2013 - Life. Instruction For Use

Bibliography

2010 - Life Without Limits: Inspiration of a Ridiculously Good Life

2013 - Unstoppable: The Incredible Power of Faith in Action

2014 - The Power of Unstoppable Faith

2015 - Stand Strong

2016 - Love Without Limits

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