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    Josselin Jeem Vilca Martha Rojas Yanira Rosales

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    The document provides biographies of famous people from literature, science, and arts in the United States. It discusses authors Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, who invented the detective fiction genre, Mark Twain, known for Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, L. Frank Baum who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It also profiles scientist Barbara McClintock who won the Nobel Prize for her work in genetics and astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. Inventions by Benjamin Franklin and the work of George Washington Carver developing new uses for peanuts are also summarized.

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    The document provides biographies of famous people from literature, science, and arts in the United States. It discusses authors Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, who invented the detective fiction genre, Mark Twain, known for Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, L. Frank Baum who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It also profiles scientist Barbara McClintock who won the Nobel Prize for her work in genetics and astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. Inventions by Benjamin Franklin and the work of George Washington Carver developing new uses for peanuts are also summarized.

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    The document provides biographies of famous people from literature, science, and arts in the United States. It discusses authors Ernest Hemingway, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature, Edgar Allan Poe, who invented the detective fiction genre, Mark Twain, known for Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, L. Frank Baum who wrote The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It also profiles scientist Barbara McClintock who won the Nobel Prize for her work in genetics and astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon. Inventions by Benjamin Franklin and the work of George Washington Carver developing new uses for peanuts are also summarized.

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    Josselin Jeem Vilca Martha Rojas Yanira Rosales

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    Josselin Jeem Vilca Martha Rojas Yanira Rosales

    FAMOUS PEOPLE
    Literature

    Science

    Arts

    The United States is known for its history, good economy, beautiful places to visit but is also known because celebrities were born there. There are , scientists, artists and writers. Then a small biography of each celebrity.

    LITERATURE

    Who wrote the old man and the sea ?

    BORN: July 21, 1899 DIED: July 2, 1961 He was an American author and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954.

    He wrote The Old Man and the Sea.

    BORN: January 19, 1809 DIED: October 7, 1849


    He was an American author, poet, editor and

    literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. He is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre.

    BORN: November 30, 1835 DIED: April 21, 1910


    He

    was an American author and humorist. He is most noted for his novels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), the latter often called "the Great American Novel."

    BORN: February 18, 1931


    She is an American novelist, editor, and

    professor. Her novels are known for their epic themes, vivid dialogue, and richly detailed characters. She won the Nobel Prize in 1993.

    BORN: May 15, 1856 DIED: May 6, 1919


    He

    was an American author of children's books, best known for writing The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

    Barbara McClintock (1902-1992)

    Won the Nobel Prize 'Physiology or Medicine "for the year 1983. The technique developed by McClintock to visualize maize chromosomes was one of his notable works. McClintock explained how cells respond to environmental stress to which they are subjected living organisms through a restructuring of its genome, these mechanisms explain the formation of new species, and would be the basis of evolutionary changes.

    Neil Armstrong (1930 - 2012)

    W as astronaut and the first human being to set foot

    on the moon on July 21, 1969, in the Apollo 11 Mission. He joined the astronaut program in 1962 and was command pilot for his first mission,Gemini VIII, in 1966. He was spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first manned lunar mission, and the first man to walk on the moon. He died in 2012.

    Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

    Franklin's inventions were multiple, such as: The glass harmonica:This is constituted by a number of glass plates and lined traversed by a shaft. With a pedal that rotates while playing with wet hands, the instrument records four octaves. Franlin oven:It is an iron stove that produces more heat and less smoke than ordinary open stove. BifocalsLens : Is having two different gradations in the same crystal. They are usually used by people with myopia, and even considers the creation thereof by Franklin, traditionally associated with it.

    George Washington Carver (18641943):

    He taught farmers to make a variety of recipes

    for peanuts. also made improvements in the preparation of various articles including foodstuffs. The list of these items is as follows: axle grease, adhesives, instant coffee, fuel briquettes, chili sauce, buttermilk, bleach, sidewalk, plastic, paper, metal polishing, etc. Is considered a renowned inventor, discoverer of over three hundred uses for peanuts and hundreds of them for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes.

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