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Twenty-one brands, ten years of persistence presence and five 100 crores hit films. The only name that emanates is Deepika Padukone. Deepika was born in Copenhagen in Denmark on 5th January 1986 to Prakash and Ujjala Padukone who then moved to Mangalore in Karnataka when she was one year old. Her father is a former professional badminton player, her mother works as a travel agent, and her younger sister is a golfer. Deepika completed her studies up to the sixth form, where she attended Sophia High School and Mount Carmel College. She attended Anupam Kher’s acting school ‘An Actor Prepares’

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The first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first ever person to win the Nobel Prize twice, the first woman to become a Professor in the University of Paris and the first to be entombed on her own merits in the Pantheon in Paris. Marie Curie was one of the most accomplished and towering scientific intellects this planet has ever seen. The Polish Physicist conducted pioneering research into radioactivity and coined the word “radioactivity” to describe the phenomena. It was not easy for a woman in the Victorian era to achieve such feat, but Marie did it. On 7

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Martin Luther King Jr. was a well known social activist and Baptist minister who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States during the mid-1950’s until up to his assassination in 1968. Here are 10 facts about Martin Luther King Jr. Born as Michael King Jr. on January 15, 1929, in Atlanta, Georgia, King Jr. had a revolutionary impact on the race relations in the United States, which began during the mid-1950’s. He played a pivotal and important role in ending the legal segregation of African-America citizens, as well the commencement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and

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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who is more popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869 in Porbandar, India. Born to Karamchand Gandhi and Putlibai, Gandhi became one of the most well known Indian Nationalist Leaders, who advocated India’s independence movement during the British Rule. The following are 10 facts about Gandhi. 1. Apart from his birth name which was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Gandhi was also given the title of ‘Father of The Nation’ by Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose. This title was affectionately accepted by the Indian community, who then referred to Gandhi as “Bapu” (Hindi translation of Father

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