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 And ‘the leader of Serb moderates, who has promised a closer union between Serbia and Montenegro and the return of Kosovo under the sovereignty of the Yugoslav federation after the raids policies of the butcher Slobodan Milosevic .

Born in Belgrade March 24, 1944 by a family from the village of the same name Kostunica (located in central Serbia), he spent a difficult childhood and uncomfortable, mainly because of the political commitment of his father, who after World War II ( after working as a judge and army officer) came into conflict with the Communist regime thus being ousted from office professional.

Young Vojislav Kostunica will leverage its strong will to complete his university studies (get a law degree in 1966) and a doctorate in 1974 with a dissertation on “The institutional opposition in the political system of capitalism.” Read the rest of this entry »

The sculptor and painter Pietro Cascella was born in Pescara, February 2, 1921.Even very young, following the passion of his father Thomas and his brother Andrew, became interested in painting.In 1943 (only 22 years) participating in the Fourth Quadrennial of Rome. In 1948 Venice Biennale is the first post-war period. In 1938 he moved to Rome where he attended the Academy of Fine Arts with Ferruccio Ferrazzi.

In the years that follow, along with his brother Andrew, works in a kiln for ceramics in Rome in the Valley of Hell. In the early ’50s, always with Andrea, creates works of pottery including large format. In 1956 he participated in the XXVIII Venice Biennale. E ‘of 1958, the initial design for the memorial at Auschwitz (designed with his brother) and the architect La Fuente, who after nine years will be built on a completely new design created by Pietro Cascella.  Read the rest of this entry »

She was born LaDonna Andre Gaines as in Boston, the third of seven children, the day December 31, 1948 but it is universally known as Donna Summer. Thanks to his huge musical hits of the 70s has long been considered the queen of disco (“Queen of Disco”). His career as a recording artist began before the advent of the hard kind that is popular and continues even after .

Longevity art of Donna Summer has been possible thanks to the variety of his repertoire that includes, in addition of course to disco music, even the R & B, gospel and rock: in his career he received numerous awards, including at least one Grammy award for each of musical categories mentioned. In 1968 she left the United States and moved to Germany where he had been engaged for the German version of the famous musical “Hair.”  Read the rest of this entry »

 The singer-songwriter Tracy Chapman in color is probably the most important folk singer black the eighties onwards, though, lost the vein of the dazzling debut, many of his works have proved a bit ‘confused and fragmentary. Born March 20, 1964 in a working class neighborhood of Cleveland, as a child had a special fondness for guitar, So that the six-stringed instrument became his favorite instrument of games, almost a sort of imaginary friend and companion.

How to prove when it gets to the success, in which the characteristic initial interviews were in monosyllables, Tracy was an extremely sensitive and introverted child, lost in her inner world. This is not to be neglected in the study, far from it. Read the rest of this entry »

(Vastervik, 1966) Swedish tennis player. Australia won the Open in 1985 and 1987, and the Wimbledon championship in 1988 and 1990, which placed him in the first place in the classification of the ATP.The father is a police officer. Stefan Little, shy and polite, at the age of seven he started to attend a course of municipal courts. With his first racket admires the rising star of the television Swedish tennis Bjorn Borg. In 1978 Stefan Edberg won the most important Swedish Under 12 race. Then the coach, the former champion Percy Rosberg, convinces the boy to leave the two hands: since then, the obverse and reverse of the Vole become the best shots of Stefan.

In the final tournament of under 16 ‘”Future” (Milan), the fifteen-strong Edberg was beaten by Australian Pat Cash. For the first time in the history of tennis, a boy in 1983 won the Grand Slam, all four major tournaments worldwide, in the Junior category: Stefan Edberg is Read the rest of this entry »

(Pozaverac, 1941 – The Hague, 2006) Serbian Politician, President of the Republic of Serbia between 1989 and 2000. Montenegrin parents, joined the Yugoslav Communist Party at age 18. After working as a director of several companies, in 1984 he devoted himself to politics, linked to the Communist League of Serbia, of which he was president between 1986 and 1988. In 1964 he obtained his law degree at the University of Belgrade and began his career in administrative and banking.

Sign in young Communist League. While in Belgrade to investigate the father commits suicide. Eleven years later, the mother will do the same. Even his uncle, a former general, commits suicide. These tragedies deep mark on the young Slobodan.
After university he joined the Communist Party: the path is forced to make a career in Yugoslavia Titus. Milosevic became the official “Tehnogas” in Belgrade, one of the largest industrial companies in Serbia. Read the rest of this entry »

Jean-Rene Lacoste was born in Paris, July 2, 1904. Great player, several times winner of the Davis Cup, seeded number one in 1926 and in 1927, has passed into history mainly for his career as a designer and French trader, creator of the famous brand that bears his name. His supporters have attributed the nickname “Crocodile”: The icon appears as a logo for her clothing line, a line started out as purely sporting. Moreover, it seems to be attributed to him the project of an automatic machine for launching tennis balls, for use during workouts.

The origins of the future “The Crocodile” as the French say, are those of the wealthy Parisian bourgeoisie. The young Rene attended the clubs most “in” the capital, but not wielding a racket until the age of fifteen years. Read the rest of this entry »

Max Carl Adolf von Sydow was born in Lund, Sweden, April 10, 1929. His is a noble and wealthy family, the father is a professor of ethnology at the University of Lund, while the mother teaches at an elementary school. His childhood was enriched by the culture that breathes in the family and his passion became the main theater. A passion that saw him starred in several shows at school, so that together with some friends founded an amateur theater company where he can experience his talent.

In 1948 he enrolled at the Academy Theatre in Stockholm in 1951 and began his acting career in theater. Just as stage acting was noticed by Ingmar Bergman, The director who will make it a famous actor and respected and their artistic collaboration will mark his career forever immortalizing the “Seventh Seal”, the undisputed masterpiece of Bergman and Von Sydow turns into an icon of film history, especially through the memorable scene in which he plays chess with Death. Read the rest of this entry »

( Vaxjo, 1964) Swedish tennis player. He won a three-time Roland Garros (1982, 1985 and 1988) and the Australia Open (1983, 1984, 1988 and 1989), and was champion at Flushing Meadow in 1988. He was part of the Swedish team that won the Davis Cup in 1984, 1985 and 1987. He retired in 1991. He was just 17 years and 9 months. The tennis Swedish, which was becoming an orphan Bjorn Borg, Had found a worthy heir.

Since then, Mats Wilander has remained for over seven years of elite tennis world, bringing ever greater triumphs and making it increasingly complete his game. Mats At the beginning, always in possession of uncommon intelligence tactics and held a formidable athletic and mental, was above all a great cyclist from the baseline, with the reverse bimane as Swedish school. Read the rest of this entry »

(Popowo, now Poland, 1943) Polish Syndicalist. He worked as an electrician at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk, but was fired for participating in the strikes of 1976.The father is a mason, and Lech can only attend the school. It begins to work as a mechanic soon. After two years of military service with the rank of corporal, is employed as an electrician in a big company: Leny of Gdask Shipyard. In 1968 he married Danuta from which they will separate again. They have eight children.

His work as an electrician brings him into conflict with the sad situation of Polish workers. In December 1970, assists the Gdask strike during which police killed a large number of demonstrators. When the wave of protests against the communist regime takes effect in 1976, Walesa also actively involved, and because of his anti-government attitude is fired. Read the rest of this entry »