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Biography of Diana of Wales - Lady Di - Diana Spencer French

(1961/07/01 - 1997/08/30)

Diana of Wales
Lady Di
Diana French Spencer
Princess of Wales (1981-1996)

He was born on July 1, 1961 in Sandringham, Norfolk (Great Britain).
Daughter of Edward John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and Frances Ruth Burke, daughter of the 4th baron Fermoy. Her parents divorced when she was only 8 years old.
He studied at Riddlesworth Hall (Norfolk) and school West Heath of Kent and completed them in Switzerland, working as a kindergarten teacher.
In 1979, aged only 18, he began dating Prince Charles, ex-boyfriend of one of her two sisters. The new contact with the British Royal family (during her childhood already used to play with the children of Queen Elizabeth II, Eduardo and Andres) led to that was announced on February 24, 1981 the matrimonial link.
On July 29, 1981 they betrothed in St Paul's Cathedral (London). They had two children, Prince William (1982) and Prince Henry (1984). He was very loved by the people and constantly appeared in media around the world. Since the end of the 1980's, they started rumors about a possible marriage crisis. The separation was announced in December 1992. In early 1996, it agreed to the divorce petition filed in December 1995 by Prince Charles and both definitely obtained it on 28 August 1996.
Diana lost the treatment of Royal Highness in Exchange for the equivalent of EUR 180 million.
On August 30, 1997, when traveling along with her new partner Dodi Al Fayed, suffered a terrible accident in Paris that snatched both life. The body of the Princess was buried on an island in the middle of an artificial lake called the Oval Lake, located in an area of the grounds of Althorp, known as "the garden of delights". The place was chosen by her brother, Earl Charles Spencer, because he said it can "be cared without problems by the family and allows that it visited in private by the sons of Diana whenever they want it."

Biography of Pablo Escobar Gaviria

(1949/12/01 - 1993/12/03)

Pablo Escobar Gaviria
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria
Colombian drug trafficker

He was born on December 1, 1949 in the farming community known as El Tablazo, Rionegro, close to the Department of Antoquia.
He studied high school at a school in Medellín, where he joined a band which was dedicated to stealing tombstones in the cemeteries to then sell them.
Later engaged in the theft of cars, business which was later involved in the traffic of marijuana.
Between 1970 and 1973, when he began to speak of the income alkaloid from Peru and Bolivia Medellin, Escobar Gaviria served now connection to enervantes transportation and raw cocaine-processing. From Medellín and other Colombian cities is processed the drug, allowing it to accumulate a large Fortune who invested mostly in properties.
He was elected representative of the Chamber of representatives of Colombia for the new liberalism. At the beginning of the Decade of the 70s of the last century, he made works of benefit to the community with drug money, which allowed him to win a large number of supporters.
The June 16, 1976 Paul was captured along with her cousin Gustavo, with 39 kilograms of cocaine. In 1989 terrorists to the orders of Pablo Escobar popping an Avianca airplane in mid-flight; 197 people were killed. In December of the same year an autobus-bomba broke out in front of the building of the Administrative Department of security, the secret police headquarters, causing 70 deaths and 500 injuries.
Pablo Escobar surrendered to justice Columbus in June 1991, with the condition that was not extradited to the United States. Only thirteen months he spent in prison, in jail in Envigado, Antioquia, on July 22, 1992 she ran.
On Friday, December 3, 1993 in Medellín, Colombia, die man more feared and sought the world in those years. He received two shots during a military operation after a clash with Colombian army troops that were part of the search block created by the administration of President César Gaviria Trujillo to capture the head of the Medellin cartel.
In August 2004 it was reported that the Hacienda Nápoles, once symbol of power of the extinct drugs kingpin, will be hosting a museum on drug trafficking, a resort or a centre of development of agricultural projects. The hacienda of 1,800 hectares, which formerly housed a Zoo, was left in complete abandonment.

Biography of Pedro Salinas

(27/11/1891 - 1951/12/04)

Pedro Salinas
Poet, Narrator, playwright, essayist and literary critic, Spanish

He was born on November 27, 1891 in Madrid.
Doctorate in philosophy and letters.
He was reader in Spanish at the University of Sorbonne, Paris (1914-1917), Professor of literature at the University of Seville (1918-1926) and later in the Murcia.
He toured most of Europe and North Africa and worked as a reader at the English University of Cambridge (1922-23), being Professor of the Central School of languages in Madrid, a contributor to the center of historical studies and founder and Secretary of the International University of Santander (1933-1936). When it erupted the Spanish Civil War had to go into exile and worked as a professor at the universities of Wellesley and Baltimore, United States, and the University of Puerto Rico.
He published his first book of poems, omens (1924), under a strong influence of the also poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. After this, were becoming secure random (1929) and fable and sign (1931) within a line of internal inquiry. Voice you due (1933), title taken from a verse of Garcilaso de la Vega, is his capital work. Reason for love (1936) is a book filled with passion and concern. The trilogy, which makes it the best Spanish author of the so-called pure poetry, according to specialists closes with long lamento (1939). He gathered all his previous work in the volume together poetry (1942), publishes referred (1946) and everything clearer (and other poems) (1949). Confidence is a posthumous book (1952) where he recovers the intimacy of their first season.
He was the author also of the book of stories in prose, eve of joy (1926), the novel the incredible pump (1950), and a dozen plays little represented, including the source of the Archangel. He also wrote numerous studies on Spanish literature, such as Jorge Manrique or tradition and originality (1947) and La Poesía de Rubén Darío (1948).
Pedro Salinas created some of the most beautiful poems of love of literature in Spanish of the 20th century, who travelled in secret to a woman, the American Professor Katherine Whitmore. In addition, wrote many letters which came to light in 2002 with the title to her lover's "letters to Katherine Whitmore." The secret letters of the great poet of love", fifty years after the death of Salinas and twenty of his lover.
Pedro Salinas died on December 4, 1951 in Boston (United States), his remains are buried at the cemetery of San Juan de Puerto Rico.

Biography of Theodor Schwann

(1810/12/07 - 1882/01/11)

Theodor Schwann
German physiologist

He was born on December 7, 1810 in Neuss.
He studied at the universities of Bonn, Würzburg, and Berlin.
Professor of Anatomy (1838-1848) at the University of Louvain, Belgium. At the University of Liege, in Belgium, it was Professor of anatomy from 1848 until 1858, year in which changed the Chair of Physiology.
He established nature physical chemistry of life by applying the German botanist, Matthias Jakob Schleiden cell theory to the evolution of animal life.
It arose in 1836 a safe method to disprove the theory abiogenica: heated macerations in jars that the air was deleted previously, but not continued working in this line. It showed that the mature tissues of animal origin is in specific cells.
As Assistant to the German physiologist Johannes Müller in the anatomical museum in Berlin, he discovered pepsin, a digestive in the epithelium or tissue enzyme that covers the stomach of animals.
In addition, he has other research on the processes of fermentation, putrefaction, and blood and muscle contraction.
His main work is Microscopic Investigations on the Accordance in the Structure and Growth of Plants and Animals (microscopic investigations on the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants (1839).
Theodor Schwann died in Cologne on January 11, 1882.