Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Pieter Bruegel the Elder (also spelled Brueghel or Breughel; Dutch: [ˈpitər ˈbrøːɣəl]; c. 1525–1530 – 9 September 1569) was one of the most important artists of the Dutch and Flemish Renaissance. He was a painter and printmaker known for creating large paintings of landscapes and scenes showing people working or living in villages, which are called genre paintings.

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Jan van Eyck

Jan van Eyck (pronounced van EYEK; Dutch: [ˈjɑɱ vɑn ˈɛik]) was a painter from Flanders who lived in Bruges. He was one of the first artists to develop a style later known as Early Netherlandish painting and was a major figure during the Early Northern Renaissance. Some people, like Vasari and Ernst Gombrich, called him “the inventor of oil-painting,” but this idea is now seen as too simple.

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Hieronymus Bosch

Hieronymus Bosch (born Jheronimus van Aken; about 1450–August 9, 1516) was a Dutch painter from Brabant. He was an important member of the Early Netherlandish painting school. His artwork, usually painted on oak wood with oil, often showed imaginative pictures of religious ideas and stories.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He created many devices in areas like electricity, sound recording, and movies. These inventions, which include the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and early versions of the electric light bulb, have had a great influence on the modern world.

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Saint Olaf

Saint Olaf (c. 995–29 July 1030), also known as Olaf the Holy, Olaf II, Olaf Haraldsson, and Olaf the Stout or “Large,” was the king of Norway from 1015 to 1028. He was the son of Harald Grenske, a smaller king in Vestfold, Norway.

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Jan Johansen (singer)

Jan Christian Johansen (born January 9, 1966) is a Swedish singer. He is most famous for singing for Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1995. The song he performed was called “Se på mig.”

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Branko Mikša

Branko Mikša (born February 13, 1947) is a retired Croatian politician. He served as Minister of Trade in 1992 and as Minister of Tourism and Trade from 1992 to 1993. Later, he became the Mayor of Zagreb from April 1993 to March 1996 after winning the 1993 local election.

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Joakim Nordström

Joakim Nordström was born on February 25, 1992. He is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who plays as a center and currently plays for HC Davos in the National League (NL). He won the World Championships in 2017 while playing for Sweden and the Stanley Cup in 2015 with the Chicago Blackhawks.

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María Luisa Bonet

María Luisa Bonet Carbonell is a Spanish expert in computer science who studies logic in computers, including how complex it is to prove things and methods to find the best solutions to certain types of problems. She teaches computer science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in Spain.

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