Isabel Allende is a famous Chilean author.
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Biography ~ Shakira
Shakira is a very popular Colombian singer. She was born in Baranquilla in February 1977. Her father’s family is of Lebanese origin and her mother’s family comes from Catalonia and Italy. Their ethnic roots have had a great influence on the music of Shakira.
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Che Guevara
Ernesto Che Guevara was born on June 14, 1928 in Argentina. After studying medicine, he became a Marxist revolutionary and fought during the Cuban revolution of 1959 with Fidel Castro.
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Biografía ~ Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz was born on October 21, 1925 in Havana, Cuba. She was a very positive person and a great singer.
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Biography ~ Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso was born in 1881 in Malaga, Spain. His father was an art teacher and drew very well. Pablo began taking classes from his father when he was ten. Just a few years later he was drawing better than his father!
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Biography: Porfirio Diaz
José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz was a Mexican soldier and politician Born in Oaxaca Mexico in 1830. Diaz was of mixed Spanish and indigenous blood. His father died when he was only three years old and he was sent away to school at the age of six. His family was devoutly Catholic and he began training for the priesthood but he was called out to serve as a soldier during the Mexican American war.
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Biography – Fidel Castro (In Spanish)
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz, nació el 3 de agosto 1926 en Birán, Cuba. De niño asistió a escuelas católicas en la Habana. Su familia era rica porque su padre era un agricultor exitoso. Castro tenía dos hermanos y cuatro hermanas.
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Biography: Salvador Dali
Salvador Dali was born in 1904 in the Catalonia region of Spain. He was an excellent draftsman and his painting skills were influenced by Renaissance masters. He was a very imaginative man and had an eccentric manner. He was also famous for his unique mustache.
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Biography: Sigmund Freud (in German)
Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) war ein bedeutender österreichischer Arzt und Psychologe. Er ist Begründer der Psychoanalyse. Obwohl er als Jude geboren war, war er nicht ein religiöser Mann.
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Spanish Biography – Frida Kahlo
Frida Kahlo de Rivera was born in a town outside Mexico City in 1907. She was born in her parents’ home that is now called Casa Azul, or Blue house, owing to its color. She had three sisters and two half-sisters from her father’s first marriage. Her father was from Germany and her mother was Mexican, indigenous and Spanish in origin.
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