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Alicia Alonso: A Ballerina from Cuba (1920-2019)

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Alicia Alonso: A Ballerina from Cuba (1920-2019)

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When Alicia was young, she loved ballet. One day, she fell ill and her eyesight got worse and worse. She had to stay in bed for months, but she kept on dancing in her mind. When they called her in order to dance the ballet ''Gigelle'' in New York City, although she was partially blind, she accepted.  Even though she could barely see, she danced with grace and confidence and the audience fell in love with her. She travelled a lot dancing, but her dream was to teach classical ballet in Cuba. She was the founder of Ballet Nacional De Cuba. Find on Web one video you like of her dancing performance, post the link and share your comments.

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Yusra Mardini: A swimmer from Syria (Born in 1998)

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Yusra Mardini: A swimmer from Syria (Born in 1998)

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Yusra was training every day with her sister and her father in a local swimming pool in Damascus, Syria. One day, when Syria was at war, a bomb destroyed the local swimming pool. Luckily, she and her family were not there at that time. Same days later, a bomb destroyed her house and her family had nowhere to live. She and her sister decided to go to Germany because they heard that it was a good place for swimmers. They joined a group of refugees and started a one-month journey across many countries. Then, from Turkey, they took a boat to the Greek Island of Lesvos. The boat was made for five or six people, but on the boat there were twenty people. Suddenly, the motor broke down. Yusra , her sister and an other boy jumped into the sea and pushed the boat for three hours until the island. When Yusra reached Germany, the first thing she asked was : ''Where can I find a swimming club?''. In 2016, she participated in Rio Olympics as a member of the first ever Olympic refugee team. Find one video from her participation in the Olympics, share the link on the comments and express your thoughts about her story.

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Serena Williams: A tennis player from USA (Born in 1981)

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Serena Williams: A tennis player from USA (Born in 1981)

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Serena was trained with her sister, Venus, from a very young age, by their father every day in a public tennis court in their neighbourhood. Their father taught himself how to play tennis, so as to train his daughters.  Serena won her fist tennis tournament when she was only four years old! The city where they were living was very poor and filled with gangs. Even the members of the gangs would go to the tennis court to watch these two sisters play. Their father was telling to everyone that they would become the best tennis players in the world. And so they did! Serena is the number one Tennis Player in world and her sister is the number twelve! Find one video on the Web showing their passionate play and share one commenting on it.

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Wangari Maathai: An environmental activist from Kenya (1940-2011)

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Wangari Maathai: An environmental activist from Kenya (1940-2011)

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Wangari was living in a village in Kenya. The lakes started to dry up and streams started to disappear near her village. Also, government cut down trees to make room for farms, and people needed to walk for miles so as to collect firewood. Wangari knew she had to do something and she called a meeting with some of the other women. They decided to gather seeds from the forest and plant trees. It started with a few women but the idea expanded beyond Kenyan borders. Thanks to this idea, called the Green Belt Movement, forty million trees were planted and Wangari was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work. Find information and pictures about the Green Belt Movement and share them on the comments.

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Hypatia: A mathematician and philosopher from Egypt (370-415)

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Hypatia: A mathematician and philosopher from Egypt (370-415)

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Hypatia was a Greek girl living in the Ancient Egyptian city of Alexandria. In Alexandria, there was a huge library with thousands of scrolls, the books of that era when people were writing on papyrus, which was made from a plant. At that library, Hypatia and her father were studying together scrolls about philosophy, math and science. Hypatia created new theories about geometry and arithmetic and started to write her own scrolls. She also built the astrolabe: an instrument which could calculate the position of the Sun, the Moon and the stars. Hypatia started to teach astronomy and her classes were crowded. She refused to wear traditional women' s clothes, and gave her lesson dressed in scholar's robes as the other teachers. Sadly, all her works were destroyed when the library of Alexandria was burned down. But her students wrote about her and her brilliant ideas. Find on Web information about the papyrus scrolls, about the library of Alexandria and the astrolabe of Hypatia. Share pictures and information on the comments.

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Amelia Earhart: An aviator from USA (1897-1937)

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Amelia Earhart: An aviator from USA (1897-1937)

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Amelia loved adventure and to fly. She bought a yellow plane and called it ''The Canary''. Some years later, she became the first woman to fly alone across the Atlantic Ocean. The flight was dangerous as there were strong winds and storms, but after fifteen hours she arrived at a field in Northern Ireland. The next challenge was to fly across the world. Unfortunately, her plane disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean and was never found. Find on the Web one picture of her plane, post it on the comments describing it and comment her story!

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Ruby Nell Bridges: An activist from USA (Born in 1954)

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Ruby Nell Bridges: An activist from USA (Born in 1954)

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Ruby was a smart and brave six-year-old girl living in New Orleans. She had to walk miles to get to her school, even there was one which was closer to her house. But at that school there were only white children allowed, and she was black. Her mother thought that this was unfair and she wanted her daughter to go to the closest school. The school members decided to accept Ruby at school only if she could pass a tough exam, hoping her to fail. Ruby passed the exam and she was very excited! But her first day at school, there was a crowd shouting racist slogans at the gate.  Every day Ruby had to go to school accompanied by four bodyguards who protected her. Her story and the pictures of her going to school inspired the artist Norman Rockwell  to create a famous painting called ''The problem we all live with''. Find on Web the painting, post the link of it on the comments and share your thoughts.

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Rosa Parks: An activist from USA (1913-2005)

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Rosa Parks: An activist from USA (1913-2005)

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Rosa, a black woman, grew up in Alabama, in a black-and-white world where black people and white people went to different schools, prayed in different churches, shopped in different stores, went to different toilets and drank from different drinking fountains. Even they were on the same bus, they had to sit in different areas: white people on the front and black people on the back. If a black person protested against that situation, he or she was thrown in jail. One day, when Rosa was forty two years old, she was going back home from her work with the bus and it was crowded. She was sitting at the back of the bus and the seats for the white people were not enough. The bus driver ask her to stand up and give her seat to a white person. She said no and she passed the night in jail. However, black people understood that they could say no to injustice and they started a boycott and they did not use any bus until the law was changed. The bus segregation ended after one year, thanks to Rosa 's ''NO''! Search pictures on the Web about the racial segregation in USA and post one on the comments sharing your thoughts.

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Marie Curie: A scientist from Poland (1867-1934)

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Marie Curie: A scientist from Poland (1867-1934)

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Marie from a very young age she knew she wanted to be a scientist! She loved math and physics. However, University in Poland was only for men. When she was young, her parents died and she had not enough money to study abroad. She started to study at a secret University. When she managed to collect money, she went to study at University of Sorbonne in France which was accepting girls. There, she started to do experiments and she was fascinating by minerals and their rays. She discovered two new elements: polonium and radium, and she came up with the term ''radioactivity''. She won two Nobel prizes and she became the first woman to teach in a French University. She also offered a lot of help to injured soldiers during World War I, creating little X-ray vehicles, called ''Little Curies'', which could help doctors to find what was wrong. Find information and pictures about Mari's life and post them on the comments, sharing your thoughts!

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Amna Al Haddad: A weightlifter from United Arab Emirates (Born in 1989)

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Amna Al Haddad: A weightlifter from United Arab Emirates (Born in 1989)

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Amna  was unfit and she was not happy about that. When she was eighteen years old, she decided to start working out and she discovered weightlifting. She became passionate about it. When the International Weightlifting Federation allowed Muslim women to compete in a unitard (an outfit that covers all skin), she started participating in competitions and she became an inspiration for young women. She also participated in the Olympic Games in Rio. Amna says that: ''Being a girl does not mean you can 't be as strong as a boy, or even stronger!''. You can find on web her quotes and pictures while she is weightlifting. Share a quote or a picture on the comments expressing your thoughts!

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Malala Yousafzai: An activist from Pakistan (Born in 1997)

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Malala Yousafzai: An activist from Pakistan (Born in 1997)

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Malala was living in a peaceful valley and she was loving school. But one day, a group of armed men called the Taliban took control of the valley. They forbade girls from going to school and many girls started to stay home. However, Malala thought that this was unfair and she wrote it online. She also said on TV that: ''Education is power for women''. A few days later, two Taliban men found Malala on her school bus and shot her with their guns on the head. Malala was strong and she did not die. Thousands of children sent her letters when she was at the hospital and her story became famous.  She is the youngest person ever to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Find famous Malala 's quotes on the Web, post one on the comments and share your thoughts!

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Manal Al Sharif: Women 's Rights Activist from Saudi Arabia (Born in 1979)

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Manal Al Sharif: Women 's Rights Activist from Saudi Arabia (Born in 1979)

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Manal always wanted to drive a car but religious rules in her country forbid women from driving.In 2011, she decided to drive and break the rules. She borrowed her brother's car and she drove around her city. She made a video while she was driving and she posted it on Youtube, encouraging more women to do the same. She said in the video: ''If men can drive, why can 't women?''. A few days later, she was arrested and she had to promise not to drive again. In the meantime, her video had thousands of views and brave Saudi women who were inspired from Manal started also to drive. Find on Youtube Manal 's video, watch it, post the link on the comments and share your thoughts concerning her speech.

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Frida Khalo: Artist from Mexico (1907-1954) 

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Frida Khalo: Artist from Mexico (1907-1954) 

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Frida is considered one of Mexico 's most famous artists. When she was six years old, she got sick and she had to stay in bed for nine months. Although she recovered form the illness, she continued to have problems with walking. However, she started to play football and to swim, which was something unusual for girls at that time, so as to make her body stronger. In 1922, she started to study and she was one of the few female students attending school and she became known for her love of traditional and colourful clothes and jewellery. Unfortunately, she had a bus accident and she was severely injured. Then, she started to paint in order to overcome her pain. She created 143 paintings and she is very famous about her self-portraits. Find your favourite in the Web and post its link in the comments! Do not forget to write your comments for the painting you chose!