British personalities Flashcards by Josée Paradis | Brainscape

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Stephen Hawking

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Astrophysicist, Big Bang, universe

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Charles Darwin

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Evolution, monkey

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Isaac Newton

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Gravity

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Alexander Fleming

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Penicillin, antibiotics

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Alexander Bell

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Telephone, deaf

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David Livingstone

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Exploration of Africa, slavery, missionary

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Sir Francis Drake

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Explorer, around the world

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Jane Austen

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Writer, Pride and Prejudice

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Sherlock Holmes

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Dame Agatha Christie

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Writer, detective novels, Hercule Poirot

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William Shakespeare

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Greatest British writer, Romeo and Juliette

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Charles Dickens

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Writer, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist

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John Lennon

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Beatles, Liverpool, composer/singer

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Florence Nightingale

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Nurse in the war

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Beatles

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Group of singers 4, Let it be, All you need is love

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Emmeline Pankhurst

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Suffragette movement, women’s vote

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Lady Diana

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People’s princess, Lady with the lamp, Prince Charles

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Queen Victoria

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Queen, long reign 1837-1901

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Queen Elizabeth II

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Longest reigning monarch, 1952-now, 4 children

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King Arthur

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King of Camelot, legend, knights of round table

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William Wallace

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Scottish knight, Scottish independence

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Winston Churchill

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Politician, 2nd World War

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Henry VIII

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King, married six times, protestant

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Margaret Thatcher

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First and only female prime minister