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William Hogarth 1697 – 1764 “The Marriage-a- la-Mode” “The Election Entertainment” “The Graham Children” social life, satire
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The Graham Children The Election Entertainment
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The Marriage-a-la-Mode Merchant Lord Squanderfield Marriage-a-la-Mode Name 3 paintings
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William Turner 1775-1851 “The Shipwreck” “Snow Storm” “Rain, Steam and Speed” light, atmosphere, colour
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“The Shipwreck” “Snow Storm”
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Rain, Steam and Speed 1844 Great Western Railway What colour did Turner dislike?
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Antonio Vivaldi 1678-1741 The Four Seasons concertos What city is Vivaldi`s life connected with?
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Joseph Haydn 1732-1809 80 string quartets 100 symphonies 50 sonatas 30 operas “Papa” of symphonies and quartets Is he Italian composer?
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Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 48 preludes and fugues 200 cantatas a lot of church music Who took part in teaching Bach music?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791 Symphonies “The Marriage of Figaro” “The Magic Flute” How old was Mozart when he started making tours and giving concerts?
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Ludwig van Beethoven 1770-1827 The Moonlight Sonata The Ninth Symphony When did he become deaf?
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky 1840-1893 10 operas 3 ballets 6 symphonies 7 large symphonic poems
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Name his operas and ballets
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William Shakespeare 1564-1616 The Globe Theatre comedies, tragedies and histories poems, sonnets, lyric poetry
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Hamlet Romeo and Juliet Where was he born?
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Charles Dickens 1812-1870 David Copperfield Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations
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What reform did he dedicate his life?
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Rudyard Kipling 1865-1936 “The Jungle Book” The Nobel Prize in 1907
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What did he do in India?
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882 Smith professor of modern Languages at Harvard “The Song of Hiawatha’ “Paul Revere`s Ride”
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What was he honoured in England?
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Mark Twain 1835-1910 Samuel Clemens “By the mark, twain!” “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer’ “The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn”
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What is his real name?
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O`Henry 1862-1910 William Sydney Porter 600 stories What did he criticize?
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Agatha Christie 1890-1976 The Queen of Mystery 78 crime novels 19 plays A billion copies in English A billion in 63 foreign languages Outsold only by the Bible
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What was Agatha Christie famous for?
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Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 The greatest Artist Astronomer Architect Engineer Evom Ton Seod Nus Ent The Sun Does Not Move
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How did he write in his notebooks?
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The Last Supper
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Michael Faraday 1791-1867 The first electrical motor The first generator – dynamo Laws of electrolysis
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What laws did he formulate?
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Christopher Columbus at the age of 14 became a sailor sailed to Europe, Africa, Western Asia October,12 in 1492
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Santa Maria What continents did he explore?
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Thor Heyerdahl Norwegian explorer Famous for Kon Tiki expedition 20 million copies of his book on Kon Tiki Ra Two Where did he try to find huge mysterious stone statues?
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April,12 1961 1963 1965 Who made the first “space walk”?
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