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Outstanding people of Britain. - Coggle Diagram
Outstanding people of Britain.
Charles Darwin
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He is a naturalist, author of On the Origin of Species, and the founding father of the hypothesis that we are all descended from apes.
All living organisms have evolved over centuries and millennia from ancestors that can be called common.
Moreover, the main driving force of this process, according to Sir Charles, is the most ordinary miracle of natural selection and indefinite variability.
His ideas formed a solid foundation for the modern science of biology, the doctrine of natural selection in the evolution of species is called Darwinism, and the followers of the teachings of the great master are Darwinists.
David Beckham
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Could be seen in the squads of Real Madrid, Milan, Paris Saint-Germain and other pillars of continental football.
Despite his retirement, he continues to hold the record for the most appearances for the England national team, which he captained for six years.
The team that brought him worldwide fame is Manchester United.
Beckham first made his presence known when his goal against Crystal Palace allowed Manchester to win the British Youth Cup (1992).
Diana of Wales
The excessive attention of the paparazzi to the royal family ultimately played a fatal role.
Princess
Charlie Chaplin
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He began to move on to more serious social topics, acting as a director, scriptwriter, producer and, finally, composer.
However, the image of the extraordinary tramp was most remembered by the audience of good old England, and then the whole world.
At the end of the second decade, Charles left for the United States, where he became one of the three founders of United Artists.
A great worker, undoubtedly a talented and influential figure in silent cinema, he was named tenth in the first hundred of the greatest stars of world cinema at the turn of the millennium.
William Shakespeare
His pen has a very impressive legacy of comedies, tragedies, poems, chronicles, as well as 3 epitaphs.
Of course, the most replicated and beloved throughout the world is the story of young Romeo and Juliet.
Stories about King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello are no less in demand by each new generation of earthlings.
Isaac Newton
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Mathematician and physicist
Formulated theories of motion, gravity, and calculus, among a number of other topics he studied.
Sitting in his own garden one day after returning, he saw an apple fall from a tree. This inspired him to a new idea, which later developed into the law of universal gravitation.
James Cook
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He was a navigator who, during his short life, managed to win the love of his friends and the respect of his enemies.
He completed two circumnavigations of the world, managed to complete world maps and explore the southern islands of the Pacific Ocean and the ice of the Arctic.
Audrey Hepburn
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Actress, model and humanitarian. She received an Oscar for Best Actress in the film Roman Holiday.
Winston Churchill
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Statesman and politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain in 1940-1945 and 1951-1955, journalist, writer, honorary member of the British Academy, Nobel Prize laureate in literature.