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(Dublin, 1854 – Paris, 1900) British writer. Son of the surgeon William Wills-Wilde and the writer Joana Elgee, Oscar Wilde had a quiet and uneventful childhood. He studied at the Portora Royal School in Euniskillen, at Trinity College in Dublin and, later, at Magdalen College in Oxford, where he remained between 1874 and 1878 and where he … Read more

(Oprah Gail Winfrey; Kosciusko, Mississippi, 1954) American businesswoman and television presenter who maintained unusual audience levels for twenty-five years with her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-2011). After this stage, she founded her own television network, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), in which she has continued to develop her work and enjoying extremely high levels of popularity. Since … Read more

(Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu; Skopje, present-day Macedonia, 1910 – Calcutta, 1997) A nationalized Indian Albanian nun who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. When Mother Teresa of Calcutta died in 1997, the Missionaries of Charity congregation already had more than five hundred centers in a hundred countries. But perhaps the order she founded, whose goal is … Read more

(Michael Jeffrey Jordan; New York, 1963) American basketball player considered the best in the history of this sport. Certainly, since basketball was invented by an American gym teacher in the late 19th century. Until the 1980s, a prodigy comparable to this legendary basketball player was never seen. At 1.98 meters tall, Michael Jordan was a tenacious defender, an excellent … Read more

Maya Angelou grew up as a girl who decided to stop talking after being raped. A small bird caged in her own silence. But, one day, the bird began to sing and spread its wings and, from that moment on, nothing could stop it. We wanted to pay a small tribute to this great writer and person … Read more

(Martin Luther King Jr.; Atlanta, 1929 – Memphis, 1968) American Baptist pastor, defender of civil rights. Since 1955, the long struggle of black Americans to achieve full rights has seen an acceleration in whose leadership the young pastor Martin Luther King would soon stand out. His nonviolent action, inspired by the example of Gandhi, mobilized a … Read more

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Florida, USA, 1835 – Redding, id., 1910) American writer. A tireless adventurer, he found in his own life the inspiration for his literary works. He grew up in Hannibal, a small riverside town on the Mississippi. At the age of twelve he was left without a father, he abandoned his studies and entered as an … Read more

Mark Cuban (July 31, 1958) was a businessman, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. In addition, he is the owner of Landmark Theaters, and Magnolia Pictures and president of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. Cuban was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. And he enjoyed certain comforts as a member of a working-class … Read more

(Norma Jean Mortenson; Los Angeles, 1926 – id., 1962) American actress. She had a difficult childhood, which was spent in various orphanages. At the age of twenty, Marilyn Monroe began to work as a model and, after some roles in various minor films, in 1950 talent scout J. Hyde proposed her to participate in the films The Asphalt Jungle and Naked Eva , … Read more

(Grantham, United Kingdom, 1925 – London, 2013) British politician, Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Margaret Hilda Roberts studied chemical sciences at the University of Oxford and worked for four years as a chemical researcher. In 1951 she married Denis Thatcher, a top oil industry executive, who introduced her to politics. In 1953 she began studying tax … Read more