Vesna Parun is the most important Croatian poet of the 20th century. Through the collection Dawns and Whirlwinds from 1947, she opposes the war and the politically dictated communist ideological artistic concept. She is the forerunner of the poetics of the second Croatian literary modernism (1952-1969) and "the rounders".
She was born on April 10, 1922, on the island of Zlarin.
From the age of 14, she supported herself by teaching. She finished elementary school in Vis and attended high school in Šibenik and Split. She did not finish her study of Roman studies and philosophy in Zagreb because of the war, frequent illnesses, and several unhappy romantic relationships. She participated in youth work actions. During her marriage, she lived in Bulgaria (1962-1967). Since then, she lives modestly in Zagreb. In 2000, due to her disability, she was placed in Stubičke Toplice, where she died on October 25, 2010.
She writes under the pseudonym Pave Versa.
In 87 books that she wrote, she passionately and sincerely writes about love, nature, the position of women, life's pain, mourning, dark moods, and resignation.
She wrote the poem "Pramaljeće" when she was ten years old (1932), and the poem "Zov" in 1938. She wrote plays, fables, aphorisms, epigrams, essays, critics, and poems for children, and four of her plays were staged.
The most famous works :Poems, Black Olive, Slavery, Let Me Rest, You and Never, Faithful to the Otter, Coral Returned to the Sea, Wind of the Thrace, Haunted Rain, Apocalyptic Fables, Bird of Time, Salto mortale, Walking Tripod, Wormwood Fables, Night for Mischief - Mine life in 40 bags, Map of Magdica, I want shallot, not poppy, Miki Trasi and grandma Pim Bako, Marija and the sailor, Donkey island,
She translated from Slovenian, Bulgarian, Franc and German and she is the most translated Croatian poet. She was awarded several times. She was the winner of the Vladimir Nazor Annual Award in 1959, and again in 1982 for lifetime achievement. She was admitted to HAZ as a corresponding member.
Literature:
Parun, V., Stid me umrijeti, Mladost, Zagreb, 1989. (29. 12. 2023.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ti23IRyHUQ (27. 12. 2023.)
https://www.biografija.com/vesna-parun/ (17. 12. 2023.)
https://skolski.hrt.hr/emisije/877/vesna-parun-78 ( 27. 12. 2023.) https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Parun (17. 12. 2023.)
Marie Curie
Marie Curie was a French chemist and physicist of Polish origin. She was born on November 7, 1867 in Poland, where she spent her early years. She was an excellent student from an early age, and in 1883 she graduated as the best in her class. At the same time, she participated in the secret resistance to the Russification of Warsaw society, and in 1863, when Russia suppressed the Polish uprising and forbade women from entering the university, she participated in the work of the illegal "Flying University", holding private lectures in Polish. In 1891, at the age of 24, he went to study in Paris. At the University of Paris (Sorbonne) she graduated (1893), received her doctorate (1903) and worked as the first professor from 1906. She discovered and researched natural radioactivity. She realized that atoms can turn into other atoms when they spontaneously emit radiation. From a large mass of uranium pitch, she chemically isolated a very small amount of the new chemical element radium, which is a million times more radioactive than uranium (1898). Another radioactive chemical element that she discovered in honor of her homeland was called polonium. She received the Nobel Prize for Physics with her husband P. Curie and A. H. Becquerel in 1903, and in 1911 the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. She was the first member of the Paris Académie de médicine from 1922, the first director of the Radio Institute in Paris. Her younger daughter Eva wrote her mother's biography, and her older daughter Irene Joliot-Curie received the Nobel Prize in 1934. In honor of the Curie couple, the unit of measurement of the activity of a radioactive source was named curie, the chemical element curium, the radioactive mineral kyrite, it was named after Curie-Skłodowska planetoid (7000 Curie) and radioactive mineral sklodovskite. She refused to patent her process so that other scientists could conduct research without problems. We can therefore say that, among other things, Marie Curie was also the great-grandmother of the open source movement. In 1906, she became the first woman to teach at the Sorbonne. Marie Curie created 18 mobile surgical units in 1914. Marie Curie died on July 4, 1934 in Sancellemoz sanatorium. She was buried next to her husband at the Sceaux cemetery, but in 1995 their remains were transferred to the Pantheon in Paris. Thus, Marie Curie continued to push the boundaries even posthumously, as the first woman buried in the Pantheon.
Literature: https://voxfeminae.net/strasne-zene/maria-sklodowska-zena-koja-je-pomicala-granice/
https://enciklopedija.hr/natuknica.aspx?ID=12996
Antonija Gorički
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama or Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama is an author, lawyer and former first lady of the United States of America. She was born on January 17, 1964.
Michelle is from Chicago and grew up with her parents Fraser and Mariana Robinson. She was insecure about herself and thought she wasn't smart and capable enough. Her parents always supported her.
A young lawyer, Barack Hussein Obama, got a job in the same company. They fell in love, got married, she became the mother of two daughters to whom she devoted a lot of attention. When Barack ran for president of the USA, she quited her job and took a prominent role in his campaign. Barack won the election, Michelle became the first Afro-American first lady of the United States of America.
As the first lady, she started the "Let's move!" program, a program to combat childhood obesity. They provided healthy and nutritious food in schools, donated to poor communities, planted vegetable gardens all over America. They encouraged children to be active. They planted a garden on the lawn of the White House. Fruits from the garden were served at the White House and donated to public kitchens and food banks.
She supported and fought for the education of girls and women. She encouraged young people to continue their education after high school: "Never see your challenges as obstacles!" While living in the White House, she supported veterans and military families.
After the end of the mandate, Michelle Obama continued her work as an author, publishing the autobiographical books "Becoming" in 2018, "The Light We Carry" in 2022, which became world bestsellers. There are documentaries and films about her life and success. She continued to care and fight for equality and social problems.
Michelle says: "Always be yourself and never let someone else distract you from your goals!"
Sanda Dubravčić
Sanda Dubravčić is the best Croatian figure skater and a respected doctor. She was the first Croatian figure skating representative who competed at the Olympic Games. She is the only Croatian competitor in figure skating who was in the top ten competitors at the Olympic Games, World and European’s Championships.
She was born on August 24, 1964 in Zagreb. At the age of five, her mother, a doctor and a former volleyball player, took her ice skating for fun. During that summer she went to roller skating school and after that she started to train ice skating.
When she was eight, she became the champion of Croatia and Yugoslavia in roller skating and figure skating in a cadet category. She participated in nine European and seven World’s championships, also she participated at two Olympic games and two “Univerzijada” games. She won The Golden Spin of Zagreb five times, she also won the second place twice and the third place once. She holds the record as the most trophy figure skater of this competition.
The Golden Spin of Zagreb is the oldest annual senior-level figure skating competition held in Zagreb, Croatia every year, since 1968. She was the best athlete of Zagreb, Croatia and Yugoslavia in 1981. In 1984 at the Winter Olympic games in Sarajevo, she lit the Olympic flame. Sandra is the only Croatian athlete and also the first woman in general who had that honor. She won tenth place then. That competition was the last one in her figure skating carrier.
Sandra did not leave sport and figure skating after ending her skating carrier. She is a medical advisor for the International Skating Council since 1998, she is also a member of the Croatian Olympic Committee and the figure skating referee of the The Golden Spin of Zagreb.
She graduated at medical faculty, got married and added her husband's surname to hers. Today her name is Sanda Dubravčić-Šimunjak, she is the leader of the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Sveti Duh, hospital in Zagreb.
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https://www.24sata.hr https://sportklub.n1info.hr https://www.enciklopedija.hr https://www.zagreb.info
Lorena Mikulec
Anne Boleyn
She was the Queen of England from 1533 to 1536, as the second wife of King Henry VIII. The circumstances of her marriage and execution by beheading for treason and other charges made her a key figure in the political and religious upheaval that marked the beginning of the English Reformation.
The year of her birth is not exactly confirmed, which is why it is not known how old she was at the time of her execution.
She was educated in the Netherlands and France, after which she returned to England in 1522. She returned to England to marry her cousin James Butler, 9th Earl of Ormond and 2nd Earl of Ossory. The plan was cancelled, and Anne secured a place at court as a servant to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon.
After the count did not approve the engagement between Anne and Henry Percy, King Henry VIII. he began to seduce her.
King Henry decided to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon, because of Anne. Pope Clement VII did not approve of their marriage. It was obvious that the Catholic Church would not support King Henry's plans. Because of this, Henry and his advisers began to destroy the power of the church in England.
Henry and Anne were officially married on 25 January 1533, following a secret wedding on 14 November 1532. On 23 May 1533, the newly appointed Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, declared Henry and Catherine's marriage null and void; five days later, he declared Henry and Anne's marriage valid.
Their marriage caused the separation of the Church of England from the Catholic Church.
Anne was crowned Queen of England on June 1, 1533. On September 7, she gave birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I .Henry was disappointed because he did not get a male heir and after three more attempts he decided to seduce Jane Seymore.
He accused Anne of fraud and she was executed on May 19, 1536.
Source : https://www.hrp.org.uk/tower-of-london/history-and-stories/anne-boleyn/#gs.3cqukn
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York on October 11, 1884. She was born Anna Eleanor, but went by her middle name. She grew up in a fairly rich family, but had a difficult childhood.
Her mother died when she was eight years old, and her father died when she was only ten years old. When she turned fifteen, her grandmother sent her to a boarding school near London, England. She later returned to New York where she worked as a teacher.
In 1905, she married Franklin Roosevelt. They had six children.
Eleanor was named First Lady of the USA. She was a successful diplomat and was the first president of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, where she oversaw the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, one of the most important steps in the development of international human rights. She organized regular press conferences in White house for female correspondents, this was her tactic to force media agencies to hire female journalists if they wanted access to the conferences. She oversaw the adoption of the UDHR in 1984. Franklin fell ill with paralysis and she began to engage in public political activity.
While she was first lady, she wrote a newspaper column called "My Day" in which she talked about daily life in the White House. Unfortunately, she passed away in 1962 at the age of 78.
Literature: https://www.enciklopedija.hr/natuknica.aspx?ID=53343 https://hr.tristarhistory.org/eleanor-roosevelt-kids
Van
Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart known as "Lady Lindy" was an extraordinary pilot who left an indelible mark on the history of aviation. She was born on July 24, 1897, near Howland Island in the central Pacific Ocean. She was a determined woman who broke many records in the world of flying and is best known for being the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia and her sister Muriel grew up with their maternal grandparents due to financial instability at home. Her mother was Amelia Otis who married Edwin Earhart, a man who struggled with alcohol addiction and was constantly looking for ways to put his family on a solid financial footing. Her father, Edwin Earhart was a railroad attorney, and her mother came from an immune family. Edwin was constantly struggling to find secure and steady work, so his family was constantly moving. Because of this, Amelia attended many schools, and graduated from Hyde Park High School in Chicago. After graduating, she went to her sister's house in Toronto for the Christmas holidays. There she saw wounded soldiers returning from the First World War and volunteered for the Red Cross. In 1918, she left college to become a nurse in Toronto. After the war, she dropped out of nursing school because her parents insisted she live with them in California, where she took her first life-changing airplane ride.
Since then, she attended flying lessons and bought her first plane in 1921. After a while, promoters asked for a woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean and choose her. On June 17, 1928, Amelia Earhart took off from Canada as a passenger in a seaplane piloted by Wilmer Stultz and Louis Gordon. When she landed in Wales on June 18, she became an international celebrity.
In order to justify her fame, she decided to fly around the world on June 1, 1937, with Fred Noonan as her navigator. They headed east from Miami with numerous stops for fuel. During the trip, Amelia reported that they were running out of gas and announced, "We're running north and south," which was the last message she sent. It is believed that the plane crashed somewhere in the sea, and on July 19, 1937, it was declared missing.
Sources used:
https://www.ameliaearhart.com/
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amelia-Earhart
Valentin Kožić
Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan, known as mother of modern dance. Born on May 26th, 1877 as the youngest of four children of engineer and banker Joseph Charles Duncan and pianist Mary Isadora Gray. A little after she was born her parents divorced and she grew up with her mother, brothers and sister.
She left school when she was 10 years old. At that time, she fell in love with dancing and started giving dancing instructions to children from the neighborhood. She got her first official job in Augustin Daly's dance troupe in New York, where she trained for a while with the famous ballerina Marie Bonfanti.
She founded her first dance school for children in Berlin in 1904, Through the school, she met young hopeful dancers Anna, Maria-Theresa, Irma, Liesel, Gretel and Erika, whom she later legally adopted in 1919.
At a Moscow party when she was 44 years old she met the poet Sergei Yesenin. In the studio of the painter Georgi Jakulov and to the sounds of the International, she was performing her famous dance with a scarf when the 26-year-old poet saw her for the first time. He called her a goddess. They got married in 1922, but their marriage lasted only three years and the poet committed suicide a few months after the divorce by hanging himself with her scarf.
Her dancing was characterized by the power of change, abstraction and liberation. In dance routines, she used running, jumping, throwing and other energetic activities. When asked what her dance meant, she readily answered: If I could explain to you what it means, there would be no point in dancing.
She had affairs with men and women, and gave birth to two children by two different men even though they were not married. She had a daughter, Deirdre Beatrice and a son, Patrick Augustus 4 years later. Unfortunately in 1913, she lost both children in a traffic accident.
In her autobiography called My Life, she admits that she begged the Italian sculptor Romano Romanelli to sleep with her because she desperately wanted another child. Her wishes came true very quickly. She gave birth to a son in August 1914, but the newborn died immediately after birth.
After all those tragedies her life came to an end on the night of September 14, 1927. A long silk scarf decorated with the works of Russian artist Roman Chatov that she was wearing got caught in a tire and broke her neck while she was driving in a car.
Her adopted daughters continued to spread Isadora's method to new generations even after her death. Today, Isadora Duncan is called the mother of dance and the founder of modern dance, and in 1987 she was included in the dance Hall of Fame in New York.
Literature: https://zadovoljna.dnevnik.hr/clanak/isadora-duncan-boginja-modernog-plesa-o-kojoj-su-sanjali-najslavniji-muskarci-20-stoljeca---518379.html https://voxfeminae.net/strasne-zene/isadora-duncan-poezija-u-pokretu/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isadora_Duncan
L.P.
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks was an African-American activist who became famous for her brave act of resistance to segregation on a bus. On December 1, 1955, Rosa refused to give up her seat to a white passenger, after which she was arrested. Her act of courage sparked the Montgomery bus boycott and became a symbol of the fight for equality and dignity. Thanks to her contribution, the law on the abolition of segregation in public transportation was adopted and she received the status of an icon in American culture.
She was born as Rosa Louise McCauley on February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. From early childhood, Rosa met with racial discrimination and activism for racial equality. At an early age, her mother taught her to read, and later she went to school in Pine Level, Alabama. Her childhood was marked by walking to school while the white children were transported by the bus.
"I could watch the bus go by every day. But, for me, it was a way of life - we couldn't do anything but accept it as something normal. The bus was one of the things when I realized that there is a world of whites and blacks."
At the age of 11, Rosa attended the Montgomery City Industrial School for Girls, which she had to leave in 1929 to care for her sick grandmother and mother. In 1932, she married Raymond Parks, with whom she joined the Montgomery National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). With his help, she got a high school education. Rosa's husband died of cancer in 1977. In 1992, she published her autobiography 'My Story', and in 1999 she received the Congressional Gold Medal of Honor.
She passed away on October 24, 2005 at the age of 92. The funeral lasted seven hours and many television stations could not broadcast it in its entirety. Rosa Parks became a symbol of civil courage and a fighter for racial equality, and her courage, struggle and perseverance earned her the status of an icon - both in American and world culture.
Literature: https://zena.net.hr/lifestyle/rosa-parks-zivotna-prica-prve-dame-civilnog-pokreta-949e34de-3262-11ec-b341-f6ab32a44c23 https://zaposlena.hr/aktualno/rosa-parks-aktivistica-koja-je-pokrenula-prosvjede-afroamerikanaca-za-rasnu-ravnopravnost/ https://povijest.hr/vazneosobe/rosa-parks-prva-dama-civilnog-pokreta/
A.K.
JUNKO TABEI
Junko Tabei was a Japanese mountaineer, teacher and author. She is the first woman to conquer the highest peak in the world, Mount Everest. She is also the first woman to win the Seven Summits challenge.
Junko Ishibashi was born on September 22th, 1939 in Miharu, Fukushima. She was the fifth of seven children in her family. She became interested in mountain clambing when she went on a school trip to Nikoo National Park.
She studied English and American literature at Show Women's University in Tokyo. In 1962, she joined a hiking group in order to have the opportunity to go on trips and find partners. In the meantime, she worked as an editor of a scientific magazine and sometimes gave English and piano lessons.
During a hike, she met the mountaineer Masanobu Tabei, her future husband. Junko's parents did not allow them to marry because Masanobu did not finish college. Although their marriage was not approved, Junko was happy with him. They later had two children.
In 1969, she founded Joshi-Tohan, a mountaineering club for women. He received a lot of criticism and had a hard time finding sponsors because of the position of women at that time. Junko led the members of her club on many expeditions and they achieved many successes.
In 1970, Junko led her club on an expedition to Annapurna III in Nepal. Their ascent was very demanding due to very bad conditions, but they managed to reach the top. Before that, the top was conquered once, but by a different route.
Five years later, they received a permit to climb Mount Everest. They started in the spring of 1975. At an altitude of about 6,000 meters, their camp was buried by an avalanche, but the local Sherpas saved them. In May 1975, they successfully reached the top and Junko Tabei was declared the first woman to conquer Mount Everest.
In 1992, Junko broke a new record by climbing the seven peaks of the world. She climbed Mount Everest (1975), Kilimanjaro (1980), Mt. Aconcagua (1987), Denali (1988), Mt. Elbrus (1989), Mount Vinson (1991) and Puncak Jaya (1992).
In 2000, she enrolled in an postrgraduate course in environmental science at the University of Kyushu. After her studies, she became the president of the Himalayan Adventure Trust of Japan, whose goal is to preserve and protect the environment.
She was diagnosed with cancer in 2012, but that still didn't stop her. At the age of 76, Junko Tabei has visited peaks in 76 countries. She died on October 20, 2016.
Literature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Tabei https://voxfeminae.net/strasne-zene/junko-tabei-zivot-posvecen-planinama/
Lucija Čepek
JANE AUSTEN
ane Austen, one of the most important female writers in English literature, is renowned for her exceptional narrative skills, particularly in depicting the position of women during the Georgian era.
Born on December 16, 1775, into a modest family, she spent much of her life as an unmarried woman, residing in various counties. Educated at home within a stimulating environment, she commenced her writing endeavors at an early age, with her family atmosphere contributing to the development of her literary talent.
Njezin prijelaz s bujnosti na ozbiljniji pogled na život ogleda se u romanu "Lady Susan". Ovaj prikaz žene usmjeren prema korištenju vlastitog intelekta služi kao studija frustracije koju žena doživljava u društvu koje ne prepoznaje njezine talente.
One of her significant novels, "Sense and Sensibility," anonymously published in 1811, follows the story of two sisters – the sensible Elinor and the emotional Marianne. The novel employs character and narrative contrasts, often utilizing sharp irony and gentle humor.
"Pride and Prejudice," published in 1813, further explores the theme of opposition, especially through the heroine Elizabeth Bennet, who questions her own prejudices against the wealthy Mr. Darcy. These novels provide a witty insight into characters and customs in England during the transition from the 18th to the 19th century, with a particular focus on the culture of conversation and interpersonal relationships. Jane Austen's storytelling makes courtship games engaging and refreshing, frequently commenting on the very acts of storytelling.
Due to the time in which she lived, there is no video footage featuring Jane Austen herself. Her life was relatively short, as she passed away at the age of 41 from an illness, although the exact nature of the illness remains unknown. Theories range from infectious diseases to tumors. She died in Winchester, never having married and leaving no descendants.
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https://povijest.hr/nadanasnjidan/jane-austen-slavna-engleska-spisateljica-1817/#google_vignette
Sabina Čehulić
Margaret Bourke-White
She is famous for being an American photographer who made a large contribution to photojournalism. She is also famous for being the first recognized female documentary photographer, as well as for being the first one to work with the US Armed Forces.
She was born on June 14, 1904 in New York. She was the daughter of a design engineer who worked in the printing industry. She attended many universities; at the time she took up photography as just a hobby. When she graduated from college and moved, she opened her very own photographic studio in Cleveland and started working as a professional photographer.
Using a hyphen, she combined her own last name with her mother's maiden name (Bourke) in order to create a professional name. She started her career in 1927 as an industrial and architectural photograph and soon gained a reputation for her originality. In 1929, publisher Henry Luce hired her to work for his new magazine, Fortune. Bourke-White was sent to Germany to photograph the Krupp ironworks in 1930. She also went on to photograph the first five-year plan in the USSR.
She became one of the first four female photographers to work for Life magazine after the start of its publication in 1936. Her photo series of the Fort Peck Dam in Montana was featured on the magazine cover and used in a story published in the first issue. In 1935, Bourke-White met a Southern novelist named Erskine Caldwell, whom she was married to from 1939 to 1942.
Over the next couple of years and during the time of World War II, Bourke-White made a series of photo-essays about the events that were taking place in Europe. She was the only Western photographer to witness the German invasion of Moscow in 1941. She wrote a book about the invasion called ,,Shooting the Russian War''. She was also the first woman who accompanied the United States Air Force crew on their bombing missions in 1942. She travelled Germany with Patton's army in 1945. Her photographs of starving concentration camp prisoners and corpses in gas chambers horrified the world. These experiences enabled her to perfect the dramatic style that she had used in industrial and architectural themes. The projects also introduced people and social issues as a topic in her body of work, and she developed a compassionate and humanitarian approach to such photographs.
In 1953, Bourke-White became ill with Parkinson's disease. She continued to take photographs and write. She also published a few books about her work - the last photo-essay published during her lifetime, Megalopolis (1957), as well as her autobiography, Portrait of Myself (1963). She resigned from Life magazine in 1969. She died on August 27, 1971 in Stamford, Connecticut. Margaret Bourke-White's photojournalism has shown her unique ability to communicate the intensity of major world events while still respecting formal relations and aesthetic reflection. She was one of the most respected photojournalists in the country during the 30s and 40s, and her documentary work was among the most popular of that time.
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Bourke-White
https://www.icp.org/browse/archive/constituents/margaret-bourke-white
S.S.
MOTHER TERESA
Mother Teresa, real name Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, was born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, then the Ottoman Empire (present-day Northern Macedonia). She grew up in a religious family and already at an early age showed compassion and love for people in need.
When she was 18, she joined the religious order of Sister Loretto in Ireland, where she changed her name to Teresa. In 1929, she arrived in Calcutta, India, to teach at the school. But, moved by the suffering of the poor, she decided to leave the school environment and dedicate herself to direct service to the poorest.
In 1950, with the support of the Vatican, she founded the Order of Missionaries of Love, dedicated to caring for the sick, abandoned children and the poor. Her selfless work has spread around the world, with missions to more than 100 countries. Mother Teresa dedicated her life to serving others, providing love, comfort and hope to those who were neglected.
Her exceptional contribution to society and humanitarian work were recognized when she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Mother Teresa has become a symbol of love and self-deception, and her legacy still lives through the work of the Order of Missionaries of Love and inspires people around the world to follow her example and do charity.
Mother Teresa changed the world with her incredible dedication to serving the most needy, leaving a lasting stamp of love and goodness.
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MARIJA JURIĆ ZAGORKA
Marija Jurić Zagorka was the first professional journalist and the most widely read Croatian writer who fought fiercely throughout her life to prove that she was someone despite the fact that she was a woman.
She was born on March 2, 1873 in the village of Negovac near Vrbovac. He comes from a wealthy family, mother Josipa Domin and father Ivan Jurić. Although in good financial condition, the family with four children lived, as Zagorka herself testifies, quite unhappily.
She spent her childhood in Hrvatsko zagorje, next to Lobor. At that time, girls received their only education at home, so Zagorka finished her first grade in Baron Rauch's castle with noble children. Later, as an extremely gifted and intelligent girl, she continued her education in Varaždin and Zagreb, where she finished the fourth grade at the High School for Girls in the Monastery of Mercy, and then left Zagreb.
At the insistence of her mother, at the end of 1891, she agreed to marry Andrija Matraj, a Hungarian railway official, with whom she went to Hungary. He tries to capitalize on her talent by writing in the Hungarian spirit, to which Marija does not agree due to patriotism. The marriage ends after only three years, with a dramatic escape from her husband's house (in 1895) and a severance of relations with the parental home.
She began hers journalistic career with the first anonymous publication of an article in Obzor in 1896. The article was published under the title Egy Percz (One Hour) and was a reflection of a patriotic and social revolt. Strossmayer then stood up for her and she was accepted at his behest as a political associate and referent of Hungarian-Croatian politics. She actively participated in political struggles, was a loud and harsh opponent of Hungarianization and Germanization. She initiated and edited the first newspaper in Croatia intended exclusively for women, and thus named - Ženski list, 1925-1938.
She left her mark in her literary work with the historical series of novels "The Greek Witch", 1912. and this gives importance to the development of Croatian dramatic literature. She died on November 29, 1957 in Zagreb.
Literature: https://ravnopravnost.gov.hr/arhiva/marija-juric-zagorka/biografija-marija-juric-zagorka/1539, https://www.enciklopedija.hr/natuknica.aspx?id=29566, https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marija_Juri%C4%87_Zagorka
Lena Jagić
Britney Spears
She is an American pop singer that got the status of a pop princess.
Britney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981 in Mississippi and she grew up in Kentwood in state of Louisiana. Her mother Lynne was a teacher in primary school and her dad was a building designer.
First time she appeared in public was when she was only 8 years old and was performing at the audition for a show Mickey Mouse Club, but she didn't pass the audition beacause she was too young. When she was 11 she applied for the audition again and passed it, with that she moved to Florida where the show was filmed. After recording the show she enrolled in high school, but when she was 15 she went to New York on a talk with the leaders of the Jive Record company. She signed a contract with them with the duration of two years to record her album.
In the period from 1998 to 2000 Britney Spears achieved a success. Her album ...Baby One More Time right after the realese in 1998 became the first album of the year in the United States. Due to her success she went on her first solo tour in June 1999. In the same year she got an awards for the best famale artist, the best pop singer, the best new artist and the best song. Her second album Oops!...I Did It Again appeared on the market in 2000 and became the best selling album by a female singer ever in the United States. Thanks to the album she was nominated for two Grammy awards which were The Best Female Pop Vocal Performance and The Best Vocal Pop Album.
Britney Spears also had an success as an actor. In 2002 she acted in the film Crossroads which achived a great success. For a short time it was on a second place
Princess Diana
On July 1, 1961, Diana Francis Spencer was born in Park House, the rented home on Queen Elizabeth II's Sandringham estate that her parents owned. She belonged to the British nobility as the youngest child and third child of Edward John Spencer and his first wife, Frances Ruth Burke Roche.
Diana's parents divorced when she was a little child due to their turbulent marriage, and she continued to live with her father along with her brother and two sisters. In 1975, she assumed the title Lady Diana Spencer upon her father's succession as Countess. Diana received her education at West Heath School (Sevenoaks, Kent) and Riddlesworth Hall.
Following her time at the Chateau d'Oex finishing school in Montreux, Switzerland, Diana traveled back to the United Kingdom and took a position as a nursery assistant at the Pimlico Young England Modern School. Diana and Prince Charles became engaged in 1981. The public greeted her with great enthusiasm when she became Princess of Wales following their July 1981 wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral.
William and Harry, their two boys, were third and second in line for the British throne at that time. Diana and Charles's incompatibility and adulterous encounters caused their marriage to suffer. They broke up in 1992, not long after it was made public that they had broken up. The couple's marital problems were extensively reported, leading to their 1996 divorce.
Diana kept up her public persona after the divorce and carried on with many of the charitable endeavors she had started in the past, supporting causes ranging from AIDS patients to the arts to children's issues. It took part in the campaign to outlaw landmines as well.
Diana brought her sons along to orphanages, homeless shelters, and hospitals. She took them out on public transportation and to fast food places to expose them to life outside of royal perks. She was dubbed the "People's Princess" because of her kindness, warmth, approachability, and humility.
Diana passed away in a car accident on August 31, 1997, in the Pont de l'Alma tunnel in Paris, while her chauffeur was evading paparazzi. The accident also claimed the lives of Dodi Fayed, her then-partner, and their driver, Henri Paul.
Literature: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Diana-princess-of-Wales https://edition.cnn.com/2022/08/31/world/gallery/princess-diana-a-life-in -pictures-25-years-after-her-death/index.html
Milka Babović
She was born in Skoplje , after many After many moving around Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro and Serbia, she lived in Zagreb since 1948 where she graduated from Pedagogical academy with a special focus on physical education and Croatian and German language.
Since 1951, she has been a member of the "Zagreb ASD Mladost", a long-time member of the athletics team in the disciplines of sprint (100 m), 80-meter hurdles and relay, multiple champion and record holder of Yugoslavia. She was twice the world student champion (1953 and 1957) and fifth at the European Championship in Bern in 1954. In the Sports News poll in 1953 and 1957, she was declared the best athlete of Yugoslavia.
She started sports journalism in 1949 in "Narodni sport" (today's Sports News). From 1957, she worked at Radio-television Zagreb, where she was the first female sports reporter in Croatia, one of the founders of the Sports Department of Croatian Television and its first editor.
She has won many awards and recognitions, including the Golden Pen of the Croatian Journalists' Association in 1974, the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Croatian Association of Sports Journalists in 1994, the annual State Sports Award "Franjo Bučar" in 2014, and the "Franjo Bučar" Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018.
https://www.telegram.hr/zivot/preminula-je-velika-milka-babovic/ https://zadarski.slobodnadalmacija.hr/zadar/tag/milka-babovic https://www.tportal.hr/tag/milka-babovic https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milka_Babović
Mateo Profeta, 1.Gb
Slava Raškaj was a Croatian painter between the 19th and 20th century. She became famous in painting despite the neglect of women in art at the time, and contributes to the development of Croatian painting.
Slava Raškaj was born in Ozalj on January 2, 1877. Since she was deaf and mute, she was educated at the Viennese Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, where she received basic art education. Returning to Ozalj, she continued painting. The teacher there, Ivan Muha, was the first to notice Slava's talent. After becoming the principal of the Zagreb Institute for the Deaf and Dumb, he invites Slava to move to Zagreb. He also asks his friend Vlaha Bukovac, who was a painter, to teach Slava. However, Bukovac was unable to find time to teach her, so Bela Čikoš-Sesija came instead.
From 1896, Slava took art lessons with Bela Čikoš-Sesija, who included her in the Society of Croatian Artists. Since then, she spends most of her time painting in the Institute's studio, and in Maksimir and the Zagreb Botanical Garden. In 1899, she moved back to Ozalj. During her life, she had trouble communicating with others because of her condition, which lead to appearance of symptoms of depression in 1901. The following year, she came to the Institute for the Mentally Ill in Stenjevac, where she stayed until her death in 1906.
Most of her opus consists of works in watercolor, but also in pastels, pencils and oil. In the beginning, she drew various flowers. During her lessons with Čikoš-Sesija, she started to paint still lifes and water lilies from the Zagreb Botanical Garden. The most significant period of Slava's painting begins with her return to Ozalj, when she paints native motifs and portraits, as well as motives from her childhood. Although she did not have an independent exhibition during her lifetime, her works appear at the Society of Croatian Artists' exhibitions, as well as at exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Paris. Her work belongs to the period of Croatian modernity.
Slava's works represent the highest achievement of Croatian painting between the 19th and 20th century. Her techniques of depicting the light and atmosphere are the pinnacle of watercolor painting. Today, various institutions are named after her, including the Center for Education in Split, the Day Rehabilitation Center in Rijeka, and the Ozalj Elementary School.
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P. K.
Blanka Vlašić
Blanka Vlašić was born on November 8, 1983 in Split, Croatia. She hasbecome one of the most successful Croatian athletes, particularly in high jump. Blanka started her sports career quite young, showing talent for athletics already during her childhood.
At the age of 16, Blanka Vlašić started making her mark. Still under 17 years old, she participated in the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000. The biggest leap in her career occurred in 2007 when she won the title of World Champion at the World Athletics Championships in Berlin.
Following this, she secured another 8 gold medals, the highest jump she made is 208cm. What is particularly highlighted in Blanka's career is her ability to cope with injuries and challenges, showing remarkable mental strength and determination. Her incredible professionalapproach to athletics makes her a role model for many young athletes in Croatia and around the world.
Outside of athletics, Blanka Vlašić is also known for her humanitarian work and community engagement. Her positive presence and contribution to society make her not only a sports hero but also an inspiration for many people.
Literature: https://croatia.hr/en-gb/greatest-sports-legends-of-croatia/blanka-vlasic https://olympics.com/en/athletes/blanka-vlasic https://zagrebmeeting.com/2021/02/19/high-jump-champion-blanka-vlasic-retires/?lang=en
Nika Vorel, 1. Gb
Ivana Brlić - Mažuranić
Ivana Brlić Mažuranić is one of the most famous writers for children and a Croatian writer recognized not only in Croatia, but also in the world. She wrote short stories, poems, novels, fables, fairy tales, essays and articles, and she was also busy in translation work.
She was born in Ogulin on April 18, 1874. as the granddaughter of the famous Croatian poet and Ban Ivan Mažuranić. She was educated privately. After marrying the politician Vatroslav Brlić, she moved to Zagreb, where she lived from 1878 to 1892. In 1902, she published a collection of stories and poems for children Valjani i nevaljani, and in 1905 another related book, School and Holidays.
As a distinguished writer, she was nominated four times for the Nobel Prize, and in 1937, as the first woman in our country, she was elected as acorresponding member of JAZU. Her literary heritage and manuscripts are in the Brlić Family Archive in Slavonski Brod, where the literary and cultural event In the world of fairy tales of Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić is held every year. The first novel, The Marvellous Adventures of Hlapić s Apprantice was published in 1913. It was in that novel that the principles of kindness and sacrifice based on Christianity came to the fore. By combining storytelling ability and ahumanistic view of the world, her novel became the first Croatian childrens novel and a model for later children novels and short stories. She experiencedher literary peak in the collection and quot Stories from Ancient Times published in 1916. In the collection of eight fairy tales, the characters are taken from Slavic Mytology to which the author gave certain characteristics. Characters such as Stribor, Tintilinić, Potjeh, Regoč, Kosjenka and Palunka, are a representation of human moral traits and feelings.
The works of Ivana Brlić Mažuranić have been translated into all major world languages, including Bengali, Hindi, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Persian. Because of the virtuosity she possessed, many called her the Croatian Andersen, because of the magical and mystical world of mythology. She died in Zagreb on September 21, 1938. when she committed suicide after a long struggle with depression.
https://www.biografija.com/ https://www.enciklopedija.hr/
Lorena Štehec, 1.Gb
Amelia Eahart
Amelia Eahart was an American aviator. She was the first woman who fly with athreeenine plane across the North Atlantic on June 17th , 1928 with Wilmer Stultz.
She was born on July 24th 1897 in the USA. Her husband is George P. Putnamand she has a brother named Eahart Morrissey and a sister named GraceMuriel. Her parents are Samuel Stanton Eahart and Amelia Otis Eahart. She’s 173 cm tall.
Amelia met airplanes as a child, but then she was not attracted to them. When she was older, she was at an airplane exhibition that changed her forever. While watching the plane move with her friend, something clicked in her, asshe was later able to say. Although she didn’t understand it at the time, she was convicend that the little red plane wanted to tell her something. When, on December 28th , 1920 she flew for the first time in a plane piloted by pilot FrankHawks, she knew that this was it. She knew she had to fly.
Although there were many trammels in front of her she never gave up. Inaddition, as she said few times, she never considered herself a typical women that is the kind of woman she “should” be according to society’s expectationsfrom the beginning of the 20th century. As a child, she climbed on trees, caughtrats and raced with boys.
She thought she would become a doctor, so she attended Columbia University, but she had to drop out due to financial difficulties. Her love for medicine was nurtured in a way by her role as a nurse during the First World War and it was then that she realized that she was fascinated by airplanes that flew over the country.
As her 40th birthday approached, Amelia was preparing for the feat of a life time. The plan was to fly around the world with pilot Fred Noonan and this become the first woman in history to do so.
During the flight of 1937 (the last flight of Amelia and Fred), time was not on their side. Amelia reported heavy clouds, after which radio contact with ITASCA was continuously lost. In her last message to air headquarters, she said they were leaking fuel and couldn't see anything because of the clouds. And there, all contact with the plane was lost. Amelia and Fred are missing.
Although the bodies of Amelia and Fred were never found, they were officially pronounced dead on January 5, 1939. However, there are many theories about what really happened and whether they even died along the way. It is alleged that they were actually American spies who were discovered by the Japaneseor that they committed suicide.
After the war, she worked as a social worker and saved every penny so shecould buy a used plane. It was a Canary, which she called so because of it's yellow color.
Literature:
https://www.ameliaearhart.com/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Amelia-Earharthttps://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/amelia-earhart
Vanessa Krsnik, 1.Gb
Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie was one of the most famous writers in history. She was a British writer of crime novels. She has been called the ‘’Queen of Crime’.
Agatha was born on 15 September 1980 in Torquay in English. When she was a kid, she showed love for writing. During World War I she worked as a nurse what gave her a inspiration for her novels. Her first novel was ‘’The Misterious Affair at Styles’’ where is also her famous character Hercule Poirot. She had married Archie Christie for first time 1914 ,and then remarried for a Max Mallowan 1930. With Max she traveled a lot, and that gave her a more inspiration for her books, like a ‘’Teen Little Indians’’.
She wrote over eighty novels and dramas, mostly detectiv stories. Her books have sold in billions copies. Some of her novels are adapted into a films, like a ‘’Death on the Nile’’. In some time she just disappeared, what caused a big worry in media. Later she returned and continued her work. She became one of a best-selling author of 20 century.
She was honored and she could carry a title of Dame. Dame Agatha Christie died on 12 1976, at the age of 85, but her legacy still lives on through her stories.
Literature:https://www.agathachristie.com/https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/christie-agatha https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agatha-Christie https://www.biography.com/authors-writers/agatha-christie
Andria Šuštić, 1.Gb
SERENA WILLIAMS
Serena Williams was born in Michigan on 26th September 1981. She is famous because of her incredible tennis skills. She retired from tennis at the age of 41. She started playing tennis at a very young age. She turned professional in 1995 and was only 14 at the time.
Since then, she has won many tournaments and won first place in the Olympics games in Sydney 2000.
She was also charitable and has donated to many charities such as Build African Schools, Common Ground Foundation, Elton John AIDS Foundation, Eva Longoria Foundation, Global Goals, Great Ormond Street Hospital i Hearts of Gold.
Serena grew up in California but in 1991 she and her family moved to Florida so she and her sister Venus can attend tennis academy. Her father Richard and her sister were of great importance in her journey to become professional tennis player. Her father was her first trainer, and her sister was her duo partner in a lot of competitions. After she has missed the first half of the season in 2022, she was playing in Wimbledon and lost in the first round. After the big loss she decided to retire after the U.S. Open as she claimed in the interview of the Vogue magazine. The reason behind that was that she wanted to be more oriented towards her family as she was pregnant and didn't want to play tennis during pregnancy.
Literature: https://www.serenawilliams.com/pages/tennis https://www.britannica.com/biography/Serena-Williams https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serena_Williams
Mark Crnković, 1.Gb
Marie Curie
Marie Curie, born Maria Salomea Sklodowska, was a Polish-French physicist and chemist who became the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to win the prize in two different scientific categories. She was born on November 7, 1867 in Warsaw, Poland. Which was then part of the Russian Empire. Her father was a mathematics and physics teacher, and her mother was a piano teacher. It is known that the earlier phase of Marie's life was filled with sad moments. Her sister died, and soon after, her mother.
After graduating from high school, Marie moved to Paris and enrolled at the Sorbonne, where she studied physics and chemistry. There she met her future husband, Pierre Curie, with whom she worked on the study of radioactivity.
In 1903, Marie, Pierre and Antonie Henri Becquerel received the Nobel Prize in Physics for their work on radioactivity. This was the first recognition for their contribution to science and the discovery of a new phenomenon in nature.
After the death of Pierre Curie in 1906, Marie took over his place at the Sorbonne and became the first female professor at that institution. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on isolation of radium and polonium. During World War I, Marie used her knowledge of radiology to help French soldiers.
She died on July 4, 1934 of leukemia, which was probably caused by long-term exposure to radiation. Her work had a great influence on the development of nuclear physics, medicine and technology. Her daughters, Irene and Eve, were also scientists and activists. Marie Curie remained a symbol of courage, curiosity and excellence.
LITERATURE:
https://biografija.net/marie-curie/ https://www.biografija.org/nauka/marija-kiri-marie-curie/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1903/marie-curie/biographical/
PATRIK OČIĆ 1.GB
Zlata Bartl
Zlata Bartl, known as “teta Vegeta“ , was a professor of chemistry, physics and mathematics. And she was an expert in food technology.
Zlata Bartl was born on February 20, 1920 in Slimenima, Bosnia and Herzegovina. She grew up in a rich family in Sarajevo, where she attended middle and high school. After finishing school, she attended the collage in Zagreb. She studied at faculty of natural sciences. After gradueting she returned to Sarajevo where she began teaching in a high school.
After the second world war she got itno jail beacuze she led a gurpe of student into Rome. She got tubercolosis while in prison. After 15 months in jail she finaly got out, but soon after her housband died.
She went on an official trip to Zagreb in 1955. Then he answered the ad of the Koprivnica company. In 1995, she started wshe works in Podravka as an expert in food technology. She did not know that she got a job that will chage her life. After four years, she discovered ingridient Vegeta that has made her famous to this day.
She has won many awards. For example : award for “tehničku kulturu Hrvatske“ , “Spomenicu Podravke za životno djelo“, “Status počasne građanke Koprivnice“ ,“Red Danice hrvatske“ and “Zlatne kune“ for life work
She died in hospital on July 30, 2008.
Literature: https://www.podravka.com/media/news/the-establishment-of-the-zlata-bartl-foundation/ https://emerging-europe.com/after-hours/zlata-bartl-the-woman-behind-the-best-loved-spice-in-the-western-balkans/
Jana Vorih, 1.Gb
Malala Yousafzai
Malala Yousafzai is a girl who lives in Pakistan. She loves going to school and learning new things. But sadly, some people in her country don't think girls should go to school. They believe girls should stay at home instead of studying. Malala doesn't agree with this. She thinks girls should have the same opportunities as boys to learn and grow. So, even though it's hard and some people don't like it, Malala speaks up for herself and for other girls who want to go to school.
One day, while Malala was on her way to school, something terrible happens. Someone with a gun comes onto her school bus and hurts her. It's a very scary and sad time for Malala and her family. But Malala doesn't give up. After she gets better, Malala becomes even more determined to fight for girls' education. She travels around the world, sharing her story and speaking out for girls' rights. She travels around the world, sharing her story and speaking out for girls' rights. People everywhere listen to her because they think she is very brave.
In 2014, Malala receives a very important award called the "Nobel Peace Prize" for her bravery and her work for girls' education. This makes her even more famous, and she continues to inspire people all over the world.
Malala's story teaches us that it's important to stand up for what we believe in, even when it's hard. She shows us that one person can make a big difference in the world. Now, because of Malala's bravery, more girls have the chance to go to school and follow their dreams.
LITERATURE: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/2014/yousafzai/facts/ https://enciklopedija.hr/clanak/yousafzai-malala https://i.pinimg.com/564x/6b/4a/59/6b4a59b3afbc8de055886a06fb3f5071.jpg https://youtu.be/ChQBHSL8vVgsi=XwGETSapKRbOtHmB https://www.nelsonmandela.org/uploads/files/_600xAUTO_crop_center-center_none/IMG_3881.jpg
Ana Jadek, 1.
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins
Adele Laurie Blue Adkins or more known as "Adele" is a english singer, copywriter, musician and a multi-instrumentalist. She is one of the world's best-selling music artists, with sales of over 120 million records.
She started singing at the age of four, and the Spice Girls inspired her to pursue a singing career. Adele wrote her debut song "Hometown Glory" at the age of 16. It was published in October 2007. She holds the Guinness World Record for the longest number of weeks at number one in the British charts. She is the only singer who has sold the highest number of albums sold.
Olivera Ćvirković
Olivera Ćirković was born on September 3, 1969 in Belgrade. She is a painter, writer, former professional basketball player and administrator and former convicted felon.
Olivera started playing basketball in 1986. She first played basketball in KK Voždovac, then in KK Crvena zvezda. After that, she became a representative of Yugoslavia. In 1988, she won a bronze medal with her national team at the European Junior Championship. After her playing career, she worked as sports director of Crvena zvezda.
After she left sports, she started selling fur coats and branded clothes in Belgrade. The goods she was selling were of dubious origin. With that job, she started dealing with crime.
She became a member of the "Pink Panther" international network of jewel thieves. She was the mastermind behind a criminal team robbing jewelry stores in Greece. She was arrested and convicted twice for participating in these crimes.
He was arrested for the first time in Crete in 2006. She was the organizer of the jewelry shop robbery. She spent two and a half years in prison for that crime. After being released from prison, she continued with crime, mostly robbing jewelry stores.
She was arrested the second time in March 2012 while preparing a theft. On July 12, 2012, she managed to escape from the central prison in Athens. She fled on foot to Serbia. She reassembled her team to carry out the next robbery on November 26, 2012. On November 29, 2012, she was arrested and sentenced to a total of 32 years in prison. She only spent 5 years in prison because her lawyer managed to convince the court to drop some of the charges. she was released in 2017.
LITERATURE:
https://scena.story.hr/Estrada/a7345/Zivotna-prica-Olivere-Cirkovic.html
KOLINDA GRABAR-KITAROVIĆ
Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović is a Croatian politician and diplomat, former Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration from 2005 to the beginning of 2008. She was born on 29. April 1968. in Rijeka, Croatia, as the first child of the Branka and Dubravka Grabar. Growing up, she had a family with whom she shared many happy moments. It was named after Zdenke Vučković Colinda from 1967. In 1996., she married university professor Jakov Kitarović, who was born and raised in Šibenik. She is the mother of two children, Katarina and Luke Kitarović.
She attended lower grades of primary school in Croatia, and graduated from high school in Los Alamos, USA. She graduated in English and Spanish from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb, and also perfected herself in the field of Portuguese. She has completed many schools and colleges with excellent grades and awarded many medals and scholarships. In 2019, she received the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Award.
She started her career in 1992 in the Ministry of Science and Technology of the Republic of Croatia, and as the first President of the Republic of Croatia in the history of the state of Croatia, she took office on 15. February 2015, and held office until 18. February 2020.
LITERATURE: https://www.predsjednik.hr/bivsi-predsjednici/kolinda-grabar-kitarovic/ https://rb.gy/gjvy9s https://rb.gy/papkx6
Lana Kotarski, 1.Gb
Victoria Woodhull
was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement, the first Victoria Woodhull woman to start a weekly newspaper, an advocate of "free love" and the first woman to run for president of the United States. She was born in Homer, Ohio, on September 23, 1838, and died on June 9, 1927.
Victoria and her sister became the first women´s to run a financial firm on Wall Street. She used her financial success to promote her political agenda: improving the rights of women, workers and the poor. She was involved in the women's suffrage movement. She made history in 1871 when she became the first woman to testify before a committee of the US House of Representatives. Victoria made history a second time when she ran for president of the United States. She also participated in the British women's suffrage movement and published the magazine Humanitarian with her daughters.
Victoria didn't have a good childhood, at the age of 11 she and her family were forced to leave the city. She spent most of her childhood traveling with the family medicine show, fortune-telling and selling patent medicines. She was married three times and divorced twice. When she married for the third time, she moved to England where she continued to live until her death in 1927 at the age of 88. She had two children with her first husband.
She advocated for women's equal education, women's right to vote and to control their own health decisions. She even criticized the Victorian ideal that a woman's place was first in the home. She was and still is a role model for all women, as well as others.
LITERATURE: https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/victoria-woodhull https://ehistory.osu.edu/biographies/victoria-woodhull
D.P
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Joanne Kathleen Rowling is known as one of the most famous writers of today. She was born on July 31, 1965, in Yate, United Kingdom. She graduated in French and Philology in 1986 from the University of Exeter. Her life changed drastically when she published the first novel in the series "Harry Potter" - "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".
In the early 90s, she went to Portugal where she taught English to foreigners. After a short marriage and the birth of her daughter, she moved to England and settled in Edinburgh. There, she lived on social welfare while teaching and continued to write. Rowling crafted an incredible career by writing about the magical world of the young wizard Harry Potter. The series became a phenomenon, winning numerous awards and selling hundreds of millions of copies worldwide. Her inventiveness in creating Hogwarts, characters such as Harry Potter, Hermione, and Ron, and epic adventures captured the imagination of readers around the globe. In addition to her literary success, Rowling has emerged as a humanitarian. She actively participates in charitable activities and supports numerous charitable organizations, particularly those focused on issues concerning children, education, and poverty.
Junko Tebei
She was born on September 22, 1939, and died on October 20, 2016. She was a Japanese mountaineer, writer and professor. She was the first woman to conquer Mount Everest and the first woman to conquer the Seven Summits.
Tabei wrote seven books. She is the founder of the Everest cleaning project from the debris left behind by climbers. She led the annual ascents of young people to Mount Fuji, due to the great earthquake in Japan in 2011.
From 1958 to 1962, Junko studied English and American literature, planning to become a teacher. After that, she returned to alpinism, as a member of the men's alpinist club. She came to all the major Japanese mountains, including Mount Fuji. When she was 27 years old, she married Masanobu Tabei, with whom she had a daughter, Noriko, and a son, Shinya. Her first major success was the ascent of Annapurna III, climbing the primary route from the south side, which was also the first Japanese ascent of this mountain. This success, as well as other alpinist climbs, in her opinion, were a contribution to changing the status of women in traditional Japanese society
After a long time of preparation, the expedition found itself on Everest in May 1975. An avalanche buried them at 6,300 meters. Tabei had also fainted, she couldn't even walk, but she recovered after a few days. She continued her ascent and on May 16, 1975, she reached the top of Everest, as the first woman in the world.
Mikaela Shiffrin
She She was born on the 13th of March 1995 in Vail (Colorado, USA). Coming from a ski loving family-her mother became nationals masters racer while her father grew up close to Vermont, a place known for its ski resorts. Both her older brother and she attended a high school that had its sport focus mainly on skiing.
Mikaela became a lover of skiing at a young age, racing against international competitors at only 14 years of age, in a famous italian competition called Topolino Games, winning both slalom and giant slalom. From this moment on she became obsessed with racing and winning medals.
Once she became 15, she was qualified to become a member of the Internation Ski and Snowboard Federation,meaning she could now attend any of the ski competitions, that required this age limit to be met. This same year she had competed and won in the North American Cup super combined race. Following this she would stand between the best three attendees on the upcoming three North American races, runner up on a super giant slalom, third place in a giant slalom and a victory in slalom.
She stopped skiing 2020 due to her father death, who was also her personal coach, and she decided to start again in 2021. Her last big injury was 2024, but she is now preparing for her next appearance.
LITERATURE: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mikaela-Shiffrin https://olympics.com/en/athletes/mikaela-shiffrin https://www.teamusa.com/profiles/mikaela-shiffrin-865708 https://youtu.be/jgc-aEYxKi0?si=Eat_FLTPPc9uvmyd
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Emma Watson
Emma Watson is an English actress and model. As a child artist she has since made a name for herself. She landed her first role as Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter series. She was born on February 15, 1990 in Paris. She is a British actress, women's rights activist and member of United Nations Goodwill Ambasador.
Her portrayal of Hermione Granger won her worldwide recognition in the "Harry Potter" series of films, J.K. Rowling's books. She loves music, sports, dancing and perform in school plays. Her natural acting instinct first surfaced when, at the age of 7, she won a poetry recital competition with James Reeves ' The Sea'. At the tender age of 9, she auditioned for the hit series Harry Potter and impressed the actors and film producers enough to land the role of Hermonie Granger, Harry Potter's intelligent bossy best friend and voice of reason.
Emma has won Young Artist and numerous other awards, National Film Award, Capri Art Film Festival Award, Youth Choice Award, People's Choise Awards, MTV MOvie Awards, Britannia Awards, British Fashion Awards, Youth nomination awards, and many others. Apart from her acting career, Emma Watson is famous becouse of her performance. She graduated from Brown University in English Literature, with distinction for advocating women's rights and education. She became a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations and for women, it played a key role in the #HeForShe campaign encouraging men suppport gender equality.
LITERATURE:
https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Watson
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emma-Watson
https://www.tportal.hr/lifestyle/clanak/petnaest-zanimljivosti-o-emmi-watson-20110617
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