Galiani Ferdinando

Ferdinando Galiani, detto l’abate Galiani (Chieti, 2 dicembre 1728 – Napoli, 30 ottobre 1787), è stato un economista italiano.

Nacque a Chieti nel 1728, da una famiglia originaria di Lucera: la sua formazione avvenne a Napoli, dove ebbe modo di conoscere l’opera di Giambattista Vico e fu allievo di Antonio Genovesi.
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Arreola Zúñiga Juan José

Juan José Arreola Zúñiga (September 21, 1918 – December 3, 2001) was a Mexican writer and academic. He is considered Mexico’s premier experimental short story writer of the twentieth century. Arreola is recognized as one of the first Latin American writers to abandon realism; he uses elements of fantasy to underscore existentialist and absurdist ideas in his work. Although he is little known outside his native country, Arreola has served as the literary inspiration for a legion of Mexican writers who have sought to transform their country’s realistic literary tradition by introducing elements of magical realism, satire, and allegory. Alongside Jorge Luis Borges, he is considered one of the masters of the hybrid subgenre of the essay-story. He published only one novel, La feria (The Fair; 1963).
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Luc Godard Jean

Jean-Luc Godard (French pronounced [ʒɑ̃lyk gɔˈdaʀ]) (born on December 3, 1930) is a French and Swiss filmmaker and one of the founding members of the Nouvelle Vague, or “French New Wave”.
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Conrad Joseph

Joseph Conrad (born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, 3 December 1857 – 3 August 1924) was a Polish-born English novelist. Many critics regard him as one of the greatest novelists in the English language—a fact that is remarkable, as he did not learn to speak English fluently until he was in his twenties (and always with a strong Polish accent). He became a naturalized British subject in 1886.
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Gay-Lussac Joseph Louis

Gay-Lussac, Joseph Louis (1778-1850), French chemist and physicist, known for his studies on the physical properties of gases. He was born in Saint Léonard and educated at the École Polytechnique and the École des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. After holding several professorships he became professor of physics at the Sorbonne from 1808 to 1832.

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Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-91), Austrian composer, a centrally important composer of the classical era, and one of the most inspired composers in Western musical tradition.
Born January 27, 1756, in Salzburg, and baptized Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilus Mozart, he was educated by his father, Leopold Mozart, who was concertmaster in the court orchestra of the archbishop of Salzburg and a celebrated violinist, composer, and author.
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Duby Georges

Georges Duby (October 7, 1919 - December 3, 1996) was a French historian specializing in the social and economic history of the Middle Ages. He ranks among the most influential medieval historians of the twentieth century and was one of France’s most prominent public intellectuals from the 1970s until his death in 1996.
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Disney Walter

Disney, Walt(er Elias) (1901-1966), American cartoon artist and producer of animated films.
Disney was born in Chicago on December 5, 1901. He left school at the age of 16; later he studied briefly at art schools in Chicago and Kansas City, Missouri. In 1923 he began to produce animated motion pictures in Hollywood in partnership with his brother Roy O. Disney. Disney produced (1926-28) a cartoon series, Oswald the Rabbit, for Universal Pictures. Steamboat Willie (1928), produced by his own company, introduced Disney’s most popular and enduring cartoon character, Mickey Mouse. This film also utilized sound for the first time in an animated cartoon. His Silly Symphony series was inaugurated with Skeleton Dance (1929); he first used color in a film of this series, Flowers and Trees (1932). Disney originated the feature-length cartoon with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and followed it with other feature-length films, such as Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1941), and Bambi (1942).
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Rueda Santos Salvador

Salvador Rueda Santos (Macharaviaya (caserío de Benaque), Málaga, 3 de diciembre 1857- Málaga, 1 de abril 1933), fue un periodista y poeta español. Fue precursor español del Modernismo
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Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice (born November 14, 1954) is the 66th United States Secretary of State, and the second in the administration of President George W. Bush to hold the office. Rice is the first black woman, second African American (after her predecessor Colin Powell, who served from 2001 to 2005), and the second woman (after Madeleine Albright, who served from 1997 to 2001 in the Clinton Administration) to serve as Secretary of State. Rice was President Bush’s National Security Advisor during his first term. Before joining the Bush administration, she was a professor of political science at Stanford University where she served as Provost from 1993 to 1999. During the administration of George H.W. Bush, Rice served as the Soviet and East European Affairs Advisor during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and German reunification.
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