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Let's go through all sorts of incredible inhabitants of the Earth. I have met almost all of them separately before, but here the selection turned out to be quite good.
The total length of the nails was 6 meters 15 centimeters. On the right hand, Sridhar Chaillal did not grow nails.
about a meter long, the Chinese's nails grew in 15 years, but in general he began to grow them at the age of 23. "When I was 20, I read about a Hindu who grew his nails about a meter long. I decided to go around him," says Lee.
"Until 1992, my nails accidentally broke twice: the first time when I moved things, the second - through the fault of my friend. Each time I had to start over," the record holder admitted.
Meanwhile, the world record for the length of nails belongs to 65-year-old resident of Salt Lake City Lee Redmond. Last year, she entered the latest issue of the Guinness Book of Records by growing the longest nails in the world - their total length is 7 meters 51 centimeters. 
The largest and smallest heads. 
The largest palms. A man named Hussein Bisad (Great Britain) gained fame because of his exorbitantly large palms. The length of the palms from the tips of the middle fingers to the wrist is 26.9 cm. 
A man named Radhakanta Bajapayee (India), became famous for the fact that the longest hair 13.2 cm grows from his ears. 
A resident of the Indian city of Bhopal B. Di Tyagi got into the Guinness Book of Records as a person who has the longest hair in the world growing out of his ears: the length of unusual vegetation reaches 10.2 centimeters. 
Longest nose. The figure, created in the image of the German nobleman Gustav von Albach, who lived in the 18th century. in Bremen. He was famous for his unusually long nose. Gustav turned his ugliness into an object of fun, jokes, and was a universal favorite, especially for children. Participated in carnivals (fortunately he did not need a mask). 
A rapidly aging child. In connection with the mother's illnesses (according to some sources, the abuse of drugs and alcohol), he was born in 1811 in Austria, weighing 1 kg 733 g, and 25 cm tall. 
The shortest man. The shortest man was Gul Mohammed from New Delhi (India). In 1990, when examined at the Ram Manohar Hospital, he was only 57 cm tall. He died of a heart attack in 1997. 
The heaviest newborn. January 19, 1879 Seville (Ohio, USA) Anna Bates (Canada), whose height was 2 m 27 cm, gave birth to a boy weighing 10 kg 8 g and 76 cm tall. The boy lived only 11 hours. 
The longest hair. 
The fattest man on earth. 
American Kathy Jung today has the narrowest waist in the world - 38.1 cm. The record holder has practically not removed her corset for 14 years, and she has about a hundred of them. Recently, another “achievement” appeared in the Guinness Book of Records: the volume of the most immense female waist is 160 cm. 
The "Amazing People" program gives participants the opportunity to show their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in! This is a project about the limitless possibilities of our brain, which are still little understood. The first two seasons of "Amazing People" have already shown how many extraordinary people with unique abilities are in the world!
The most amazing people of Russia and the world - in the new season of the show "Amazing People"!
Each of them is a discovery! Each of them is a sensation! For several years in a row, amazing people have shocked the audience with their unique abilities, which are hard for an ordinary person to believe in!
"Amazing People" is a project about the limitless possibilities of the brain, still little explored. And this means that the success of the performance of each number has a scientific explanation!
"Amazing People" is a Russian adaptation of the world famous show The Brain. After the tremendous success of the first season in Russia and the release of the project in the second season on the international level, the number of fans of the show has increased significantly! Contestants from all over the world, stars, record holders and winners of foreign analogues of the project dream of getting into the Russian show! The participants of both seasons had both direct students and inspired adepts who decided to master the same disciplines and try their hand at the show! "Amazing People" inspires new amazing people!
In the new season of the show, the audience will again be amazed by the unusual abilities of seemingly ordinary people - from all over the world! Unique memory, lightning-fast counting skills in the mind, high-speed solving of mathematical problems, synesthesia, fluency in dozens of languages, speed cubing, imitation of bird voices, orientation by the stars - these are far from all the talents of our superhumans!
You will see: outstanding mathematicians, whose lightning-fast calculations are difficult to check even on special calculators; masters of world-class mnemonics, champions of the Guinness Book of Records; a unique six-year-old girl with incredible physical strength and at the same time developed mental abilities; a polyglot speaking more than 24 languages; clock man (he doesn't need a watch to tell the time!) and eagle vision man; the USSR record holder for high-speed bilingual typing, who is considered one of the best typists in the world and prints in 16 languages; the best speedcuber in the country, who creates artistic images from Rubik's cubes (the largest Rubik's cube painting in the CIS is his work). And many other unique, talented and amazing people of all ages from all over the world! And for the first time in the history of Russian television, a hypnotist dog will take part in the competition!
The show will be attended by contestants from Germany and Macedonia, the USA and India, China, Turkey and Mongolia, the CIS countries and the Baltic states. Russia is represented by more than 30 cities, including Moscow, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Kyzyl, Chelyabinsk, Sochi, Vologda, Orenburg, Belgorod, Dmitrov, Kislovodsk, Novosibirsk, Samara, Ulyanovsk, Yekaterinburg, Arzamas, Novosibirsk, Nizhnevartovsk, Omsk, Irkutsk , Samara, Voronezh and others.
In the new season, amazing people will have to go through new complex and interesting tests. The rules remain the same: seven contestants take part in each edition. At the end of the program, the auditorium selects by voting one winner who has made the greatest impression. In the final episode of the show, the finalists of all previous episodes will gather to compete for the main prize - the Winner's Cup and one million rubles!
Star guests in the hall help the audience to choose the best participant: TV presenter Olga Shelest, choreographer and TV presenter Yevgeny Papunaishvili, Russian athlete, Honored Master of Sports in boxing Natalya Ragozina and TV presenter Maria Sittel. They comment on the speeches, but do not influence the voting process in any way. The professional assessment of the unique abilities of the contestants is given by the expert of the program - candidate of biological sciences, director of the Institute of Cognitive Neurosciences, Professor Vasily Klyucharev.
Let's be amazed together!
Show host: TV presenter and producer Alexander Gurevich
Axel - for thinking about me,
Stuart for guiding me
and Joss for being amazing.
I'm alone. All alone.
I feel my heart beating in my chest, and in the depths of my soul I want to run home to my parents with a screech. I am thirteen. Okay, thirteen and a half. And the worst thing is that at my age that "and a half" really matters, as if in the fact that you are six months closer to the age of consent, which will come in four years, and in three years after that you will be able to drink alcohol, there is reason to be proud. Anyway, the point is, I'm thirteen. With a half. Those who are thirteen and a half should not be forced to deal with such things. Here, the parents could not do anything.
Well, what - what the hell am I going to tell them? “Mom, dad, the X-Men are in captivity. Any thoughts?
It’s a terrible thing to be in a position so much beyond the parent’s ability to explain something, advise something, or at least help in some way. It can’t be fixed over a plate of fresh homemade cookies and a glass of cold milk, while my father says that the rest of the girls are just jealous of me, and my mother says that I should be proud of my damn hair, which does not want to straighten despite the best efforts of the most diligent hairdressers. All those sweet platitudes, all those assurances, are worthless when…yes, that’s right – when the X-MEN, THE GREATEST MUTANT HERO TEAM IN THE WORLD, ARE CAPTURED. And only I - only I can help.
It's just unfair that all this fell on my shoulders. Well, who am I? Katherine Pride, a big-headed thirteen-year-old girl with Magendavid around her neck and her soul wide open.
I'm in the cargo hold of a small hovercraft speeding down some unfamiliar street in New York, so you can judge for yourself how my life has taken a turn - when was the last time you saw a hovercraft on the streets of Manhattan? Villains - in the forward compartment of the ship. I can't see them, I can only hear them discussing their plans - but even then in the most general terms. I can't understand the point.
Suddenly I hear my own name. Some thug asks about me. Some woman answers. Her voice is familiar to me.
I decide to take a chance and see what happens. Hesitantly, I press my hand against the bulkhead, and the molecules of my body penetrate the metal. I can walk through a bulkhead like a ghost. Just in case, I hold my breath - it is not known what will happen if I inhale while inside the wall. It pinches the skin. I pass through the bulkhead, appear from the other side ...
And I see a woman. I see from the back, but I recognize her.
It's the same woman, Miss Frost! The one that heads the academy where my parents wanted to put me before they decided to send me to another one run by Professor Charles Xavier. Yes, this is the same woman, the same Emma Frost, who looked me straight in the eyes and said that we would be great friends.
But why the hell is she dressed up like that? Briefs, thigh-high boots, corset, cape - and it's all white! Who is driving the boat? Hugh Hefner himself from Playboy?
Emma Frost and her goons are holding the X-Men captive. I have to rescue them. But how? These guys have weapons and superpowers, and I'm just me.
I'm waiting. I wait for the moment - and suddenly I make my move. We are no longer on the boat. When did we leave it? I don’t know, but suddenly – once, and I’m in some building. The X-Men are here, in cages. I pass through the wall and see one of the X-Men being dragged into the cage - Storm, the weather charmer. I go up to her, but she suddenly tells me to get out, and ... my God, it's Emma Frost! Noticed me and sends her thugs after me! I run, my heart bursting from my chest, I dive head first through the floor.
- Shut down the complex! Frost screeches from behind. “Get into groups and search everything!” Find Kitty Pryde immediately!
Never in my life have I faced such pure malice, such an indomitable desire for revenge. It becomes clear that she intends to do something terrible to me.
Once outside, I rush into the alley. It's freezing cold, and I'm only wearing jeans, a tank top, and a light vest. Shivering from cold and fear. Suddenly, a light illuminates the back alley. Automobile! He rushes at me, and I run, not seeing anything around, unable to concentrate on anything. I'm too scared. I stumble. I'm falling. Thoughts are jumbled in my head. Instead of penetrating the ground, I hit it hard with my shoulder.
But there is no pain. I do not know why. By all accounts, it should be.
In the field of view - nothing but headlights rushing from side to side. The headlights shine brighter and brighter. Desperate to scream. I open my mouth and I can't. The squeal gets stuck in my chest, and I squeeze it out with force - through my throat out - at first soft, stifled, and then, finally ...
I jump up abruptly, sit up in bed, as if my own screeching is pulling me out of sleep and up into the world of wakefulness. Immediately I put my hands over my mouth, horrified that my squealing could disturb my parents. They were so kind that they let me flip over in my old room while I was in the process of moving, and the last thing I wanted was to wake them up in the middle of the night.
There is silence in the house. The bullet whistled past.
I turn on the bedside lamp and squint into the light. Three in the morning. The room is a memorial to who I once was. There are garlands of boy band posters on the walls. Once they contained my whole world. In the past, when my world was calm. In the past, when my world was clear.
The letter is still on the nightstand. A crisp white sheet of paper, neatly folded into thirds. And it should be crumpled into a tight lump or torn to shreds. Yes, that's what he should have done. But no, the letter is still on the bedside table, as if teasing, mocking me. It needed to be torn off, but here it is - an eyesore, like a pimple at the prom. Knowing the author, knowing her... If I had destroyed this letter, another would simply have appeared after it, and after it a third, and after it hundreds more, blown through the window, thrown into the chimney, like in "Harry Potter", overflowing the living room leaving no room in her for anything but her, except this witch.
I take a moment to think about my dreams. For most, nightmares are just random thoughts and fears that sit in the depths of the subconscious, float to the surface of the sleeping mind and throw the person into the very middle of the worst possible turn of events. But imagine what kind of life I have: everything that I just dreamed of actually happened to me - bar by bar, note by note. All these feelings, all these terrible encounters, are as fresh and real as they were years ago when I first experienced them. Unfiltered, unchanging, not faded over time...
I thought it was all behind me. After all, my "career" has had much, much worse nights. There were losses that broke my heart.
There was Jean Grey, a red-haired heroine in my life, probably the strongest telekinetic on Earth… The woman who saved me that very night from those chasing me in the alley… Beloved of Scott Summers, commander of the X-Men.
She is dead.
In my life there was Peter Rasputin - Colossus, a metal-plated guy from a Russian village, impenetrable from the outside, so tender and vulnerable inside ... my beloved.
And he's dead.
And not only they...
I remember when I was twelve, Joey Riceman, crossing the street on his way to the deli, was hit and killed by a car. I was in love with him at the time and cried for weeks. Literally. Weeks. Death seemed unimaginable.
Now it is called "service cost". I left the service. Left the X-Men. And yet the letter is on the nightstand, teasing me like it's mocking me.
Letter from her. From Miss We-be-beautiful-friends.
I take the letter, intending to finally crush it and be free of her once and for all. The standard letterhead, printed in plain small type, doesn't say a word about what "Professor Xavier's School for Gifted Children" actually means.
September 2 on the channel "Russia 1" starts the third season of the show "Amazing People". the site recalls the most sensational performances of the previous two seasons. Are you weak at the age of 4 to speak 7 languages?
Photo: frame from the show "Amazing People"
The Russian adaptation of the Chinese TV show The Brain has been on screens for two years now. In each episode of the program, seven contestants demonstrate their unusual abilities: high-speed mental arithmetic, hypnosis, multilingualism, phenomenal flexibility and much more. The main thing is that the mental or physical abilities of the sites must really go beyond what the average person can.
At the end of each episode, the audience chooses a winner, and all episode winners compete against each other in the final show. The most amazing of the "Amazing People" gets one million rubles. The program is hosted by Alexander Gurevich, well known to viewers from another show - “One Hundred to One”.
Photo: frame from the show "Amazing People" more on the topic
The opinion of Internet users does not always coincide with the opinion of the audience in the hall, who by their vote weed out six participants and give a ticket to the final only to one. Viewers on YouTube "vote" views and comments - there are videos that gain more than one million views.
Photo: frame from the show "Amazing People". Program experts Olga Shelest, Evgeny Papunaishvili, Natalia Ragozina and Vasily Klyucharev.
Using the techniques of mnemonics, a primary school teacher Svetlana Belichenko during the test, she must memorize the meaning and location of 196 hieroglyphs in two minutes. The girl makes mistakes, but in general she gives many correct answers, despite the fact that she only “touched a little” Japanese.
The video with Svetlana's performance has collected almost 1.5 million views on YouTube.
Five year old Vika Alieva scored exactly twice as much - 3 million views. She calls herself a "cool mathematician." During the test, in a matter of seconds, she correctly adds up the numbers in her mind, which very quickly replace each other on the screen. Then the task becomes more difficult: the girl is offered to read the rhyme and count at the same time. She can handle it too!
In the comments, adults write that after watching the video, they sharply doubted whether they deservedly received their "five" in mathematics at school.
Magical World: it's even a shame that a 5 year old child knows math better than you :(:(
Fatima Shuppe_: and then I realized that A's in math are false. because in my mind I can’t 4 + 28, but here it is at 5 years old ..
Participants demonstrated in the show not only mental, but also physical abilities. Oksana Sytova I had to blindly, from memory, repeat the plastic sketches fixed on the blades of a huge carousel - and I coped with all the figures, except for one!
5 million people watched Oksana's performance on YouTube. In the comments under the video, many viewers accused the creators of the show of being staged: the gymnast could not know which way the carousel would spin, but she immediately took the correct pose:
Giz Gizov: the statement did not even ask in which direction the blades would start spinning and took a pre-rehearsed pose
Olga Bykova: How does she know the speed of rotation?
play game: She can see through this bandage!
Perhaps everyone knows the name of the four-year-old polyglot Bella Devyatkina. More than six million views were collected on YouTube by a video with Bella's performance: she speaks to seven people in seven different languages and solves riddles. In addition to her unique linguistic knowledge, she is well versed in dinosaurs and the structure of the solar system.
Who do you consider the most worthy example and inspiration for yourself personally? Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin, or maybe your grandfather? Our world has been forming for several millennia, and a lot of historical figures took part in this difficult process, who made their invaluable contribution to science, culture and many other spheres of life, both in their countries and all of humanity. It is very difficult and almost impossible to choose those whose influence was the most significant. However, the authors of this list still decided to try and collect in one publication the most inspiring personalities in the history of world civilizations. Some of them are known to everyone, others are not known to everyone, but they all have one thing in common - these people have changed our world for the better. From the Dalai Lama to Charles Darwin, here are 25 of the most outstanding personalities in history!
25. Charles Darwin
The famous British traveler, naturalist, geologist and biologist, Charles Darwin is best known for his theory, which changed the idea of human nature and the development of the world in all its diversity. Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection suggests that all kinds of living organisms, including humans, descended from common ancestors, and this concept shocked the entire scientific community at one time. Darwin published The Theory of Evolution, with some examples and evidence, in his revolutionary On the Origin of Species in 1859, and our world and the way we know it has changed a lot since then.
24. Tim Berners-Lee
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Tim Berners-Lee is a British engineer, inventor and computer scientist, best known as the creator of the World Wide Web. He is sometimes called the "Father of the Internet" and it was Berners-Lee who developed the first hypertext web browser, web server, and web editor. The technologies of this outstanding scientist have spread worldwide and have forever changed the way information is generated and processed.
23. Nicholas Winton
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Nicholas Winton was a British philanthropist, and since the late 80s, he became known primarily for taking 669 Jewish children from the territory of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia right on the eve of World War II. Winton moved all these children to British orphanages, and some of them even managed to be placed in families, which definitely saved them all from certain death in concentration camps or during the bombing. The philanthropist organized as many as 8 trains from Prague and also took the children out of Vienna, but with the help of other modes of transport. The Englishman never sought fame, and for 49 years he kept his heroic deed a secret. In 1988, Winton's wife found a notebook with records from 1939 and the addresses of the families who received the young rescuers. Since then, recognition, orders and awards have fallen upon him. Nicholas Winton died at the age of 106 in 2015.
22. Buddha Shakyamuni (Gautama Buddha)
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Also known as Siddhartha Gautama (from birth), Tathagata (who has come), or Bhagavan (blissful), Buddha Shakyamuni (the awakened sage of the Shakya family) was the spiritual leader and founder of Buddhism, one of the world's three leading religions. The Buddha was born in the 6th century BC into a royal family and lived in absolute isolation and luxury. When the prince matured, he left his family and all his possessions to plunge into self-discovery and seek to save humanity from suffering. After several years of meditation and contemplation, Gautama attained enlightenment and became a Buddha. Through his teachings, Shakyamuni Buddha influenced the lives of millions of people around the world.
21. Rosa Parks
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Also known as the “First Lady of Civil Rights” and “the mother of the freedom movement,” Rosa Parks was a true pioneer and founder of the black rights movement in Alabama in the 1950s, where there was still a strong racial segregation of citizens in those days. In 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, a courageous African-American woman and passionate civil rights activist, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger, disobeying the driver's orders. Her rebellious act provoked other blacks into what was later nicknamed the legendary "Montgomery Bus Boycott." This boycott lasted 381 days and became one of the key events in the history of the black civil rights movement in the United States.
20. Henry Dunant
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A successful Swiss businessman and active public figure, Henri Dunant became the first person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1901. During a business trip in 1859, Dunant faced the terrible aftermath of the Battle of Solferino (Solferino, Italy), where the troops of Napoleon, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Austrian Empire clashed under the leadership of Franz Joseph I, and the battlefield was left to die almost 9 thousand wounded. In 1863, in response to the horrors of war and the brutality of the fight, the entrepreneur founded the well-known International Committee of the Red Cross. Adopted in 1864, the Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded was also based on the ideas expressed by Henri Dunant.
19. Simon Bolivar
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Also known as the Liberator (El Libertador), Simon Bolivar was an outstanding Venezuelan military and political leader who played a key role in the liberation from Spanish domination of as many as 6 countries of South and Central America - Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama. Bolivar was born into a wealthy aristocratic family, but he devoted most of his life to military campaigns and the struggle for the independence of the Spanish colonies in America. The country of Bolivia, by the way, was named after this hero and liberator.
18. Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein is one of the most respected and influential scientists of all time. This outstanding theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate and humanist public figure gave the world over 300 scientific papers on physics and about 150 books and articles on history, philosophy and other humanitarian areas. His whole life was full of interesting research, revolutionary ideas and theories, which later became fundamental for modern science. Einstein was best known for his theory of relativity, and thanks to this work he became one of the greatest personalities in the history of mankind. Even after almost a century, this Theory continues to influence the thinking of the modern scientific community, working on the creation of the Theory of Everything (or the Unified Field Theory).
17. Leonardo da Vinci
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It is difficult to describe and list all the directions in which Leonardo da Vinci succeeded, a man who changed the whole world with his mere existence. Throughout his life, this Italian Renaissance genius managed to achieve unprecedented heights in painting, and in architecture, and in music, and in mathematics, and in anatomy, and in engineering, and in many other areas. Da Vinci is recognized as one of the most versatile and talented people who ever lived on our planet, and he is the author of such revolutionary inventions as the parachute, helicopter, tank and scissors.
16. Christopher Columbus
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The famous Italian explorer, traveler and colonizer, Christopher Columbus was not the first European to sail to America (after all, the Vikings had been here before him). However, his voyages launched a whole era of the most outstanding discoveries, conquests and colonizations, which lasted for several more centuries after his death. Columbus' travels to the New World greatly influenced the development of the geography of those times, because at the beginning of the 15th century people still believed that the Earth was flat, and that there were no more lands beyond the Atlantic.
15 Martin Luther King Jr.
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This is one of the most influential personalities of the 20th century. Martin Luther King Jr. is best known for his peaceful movement against discrimination, racial segregation and for the civil rights of black Americans, for which he even received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. Martin Luther King Jr. was a Baptist preacher and vibrant speaker who inspired millions around the world to fight for democratic freedoms and their rights. He played a key role in promoting civil rights through peaceful protests based on the Christian faith and philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.
14. Bill Gates
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The founder of the legendary multinational company Microsoft, Bill Gates was considered the richest man in the world for almost 20 years. More recently, however, Gates has become known primarily as a generous philanthropist, rather than for his success in business and the information technology market. At one time, Bill Gates stimulated the development of the personal computer market, making computers accessible to the most ordinary users, which is exactly what he was trying to achieve. Now he is passionate about the idea of providing Internet access to the whole world. Gates also works on projects dedicated to combating global warming and combating gender discrimination.
William Shakespeare is considered one of the greatest writers and playwrights in the English language, and he has had a profound influence on a whole galaxy of writers, as well as on millions of readers around the world. In addition, Shakespeare introduced about 2,000 new words, most of which are still in use in modern English. With his work, the national poet of England has inspired a great many composers, artists and filmmakers from around the world.
12. Sigmund Freud
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The Austrian neurologist and founder of the science of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud is famous precisely for his unique studies of the mysterious world of the human subconscious. With them, he forever changed the way we evaluate ourselves and the people around us. Freud's work influenced the psychology, sociology, medicine, art, and anthropology of the 20th century, and his therapeutic methods and theories in the field of psychoanalysis are still being studied and applied in practice.
11. Oskar Schindler
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Oskar Schindler was a German entrepreneur, Nazi Party member, spy, womanizer and drinker. All this does not sound very attractive and certainly does not sound like a characterization of a real hero. However, contrary to all of the above, Schindler was on this list absolutely deservedly, because during the Holocaust and World War II, this man saved about 1,200 Jews, rescuing them from death camps to work in his plants and factories. The heroic story of Oskar Schindler has been described in many books and films, but the most famous adaptation was Steven Spielberg's 1993 film Schindler's List (Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List).
10. Mother Teresa
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A Catholic nun and missionary, Mother Teresa devoted almost her entire life to serving the poor, the sick, the disabled, and orphans. She founded the charitable movement and the women's monastic congregation "Sisters of the Missionaries of Love" (Congregatio Sororum Missionarium Caritatis), which exists in almost all countries of the world (in 133 countries as of 2012). In 1979, Mother Teresa won the Nobel Peace Prize, and 19 years after her death (in 2016), she was canonized by Pope Francis himself.
9 Abraham Lincoln
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Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States and one of the most influential personalities in American history. Coming from a poor farming family, Lincoln fought for the reunification of the country during the Civil War between North and South, strengthened the federal government, modernized the American economy, but he earned a reputation as an outstanding historical figure primarily for his contribution to the development of a democratic society and the fight against slavery and oppression. the black population of the USA. The legacy of Abraham Lincoln still has a defining influence on the American people.
8 Stephen Hawking
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Stephen Hawking is one of the most famous and respected scientists in the world, and he has made an invaluable contribution to the development of science (especially cosmology and theoretical physics). The work of this British researcher and ardent popularizer of science is also impressive because Hawking made almost all of his discoveries despite a rare and slowly progressing degenerative disease. The first signs of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis appeared in his student years, and now the great scientist is completely paralyzed. However, a severe illness and paralysis did not prevent Hawking from marrying twice, becoming the father of two sons, flying in zero gravity, writing many books, becoming one of the founders of quantum cosmology and the winner of a whole collection of prestigious awards, medals and orders.
7. Unknown rebel
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This conditional name refers to an unknown man who independently held back a column of tanks for half an hour during the protests on Tiananmen Square (Tiananmen, China) in 1989. In those days, hundreds of protesters, most of whom were ordinary students, were killed in clashes with the military. The identity and fate of the unknown rebel remain unknown, but this photograph has become an international symbol of courage and peaceful resistance.
6. Muhammad
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Muhammad was born in 570 AD in the city of Mecca (Mecca, modern Saudi Arabia). He is considered a Muslim prophet and the founder of the Islamic religion. Being not only a preacher, but also a politician, Muhammad united all the Arab peoples of those times into a single Muslim empire that conquered most of the Arabian Peninsula. The author of the Qur'an started out with a few followers, but eventually his teachings and practices formed the basis of the Islamic religion, which has become the second most popular religion in the world today, with about 1.8 billion believers.
5. Dalai Lama XIV (The 14th Dalai Lama)
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Dalai Lama XIV or at birth Lhamo Dhondup (Lhamo Thondup) is a 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner and a well-known preacher of the Buddhist philosophy of peace, professing respect for all life on Earth, and calling for the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. The former spiritual and political leader of Tibet in exile, the 14th Dalai Lama always tried to find a compromise and sought reconciliation with the Chinese authorities who invaded Tibet with territorial claims. In addition, Lhamo Dhondrub is a zealous supporter of the women's rights movement, interfaith dialogues and advocates for solving global environmental problems.
4. Princess Diana (Princess Diana)
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Also known as "Lady Di" and "The People's Princess," Princess Diana has won millions of hearts around the world with her philanthropic work, hard work, and sincerity. She devoted most of her short life to helping those in need from third world countries. The Queen of Human Hearts, as she was also called, founded the movement to stop the production and use of anti-personnel mines, and was actively involved in the activities of several dozen humanitarian campaigns and non-profit organizations, including the Red Cross, Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital (London's Great Ormond Street Hospital) and AIDS research. Lady Dee died at the age of 36 from injuries sustained in a car accident.
3. Nelson Mandela
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Nelson Mandela was a South African politician, philanthropist, revolutionary, reformer, passionate human rights activist during apartheid (racial segregation policy) and President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He had a profound influence on the history of South Africa and the world. For his beliefs, Mandela spent almost 27 years in prison, but he did not lose faith in the liberation of his people from the oppression of the authorities, and after leaving prison he achieved democratic elections, as a result of which he became the first black president of South Africa. His tireless work for the peaceful overthrow of the apartheid regime and for the establishment of democracy has inspired millions of people around the world. In 1993, Nelson Mandela won the Nobel Peace Prize.
2. Jeanne d'Arc (Jeanne d "Arc)
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Also known as the Maid of Orleans, Joan of Arc is the greatest heroine in French history and one of the most famous women in world history. Born into a poor farming family in 1412, she believed she had been chosen by God to lead France to victory in the Hundred Years' War with England. The girl died before the end of the war, but her courage, passion and devotion to her goal (especially during the siege of Orleans) caused a long-awaited moral upsurge and inspired the entire French army for the final victory in the protracted and seemingly hopeless confrontation with the British. Unfortunately, in the battle, the Maid of Orleans was captured by the enemies, was condemned by the Inquisition and burned at the stake at the age of 19.
1. Jesus Christ
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Jesus Christ is the central figure of the Christian religion, and He has had such a strong influence on our world that He is often called the most influential and inspiring person in the history of mankind. Compassion, love for neighbors, sacrifice, humility, repentance and forgiveness, to which Jesus called in his sermons and personal example, were concepts that were absolutely opposite to the values of ancient civilizations during His life on Earth. Nevertheless, today there are about 2.4 billion followers of His teachings and Christian faith in the world.