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Galloping Across Europe

Gaudi the Blessed

Was born in 1852 in Reus Studied architecture in Barcelona

1883 - met a manufacturer Eusebi Guell who shared Gaudi’s views on modern architecture.

Eusebi Guell became a financial angel-protector for Gaudi, his associate and friend.

One of Gaudi’s professors told about him “He is either a madman or a genius”.

His biggest project was Sagrada Familia, a cathedral that he had been building for more than 40 years.

. “It will look like a forest. Mild light will flow through the windows and it will seem to you that the stars themselves pour light on you. ”

Was born on October 9, 1940 in Heerlen, the Netherlands. Studied in Academy of Art in Maastricht. 1960 - received a scholarship from the Belgian government to study at the Belgian national Institute for Fine Arts in Antwerp. Willem Haenraets

Willem travelled, worked and exposed his pictures in many places in Europe – Paris, Holland, Germany, Spain and outside Europe – the USA, Japan. Now he lives in Spain.

Secret Garden Irish consists of the violinist Fionnuala Sherry and the Norwegian composer and pianist Rolf Løvland.

The duo has sold over 3 million albums all over the world.

Clinton Darryl "Clint" Mansell, (born 7 January 1963) is an English musician, composer, and former lead singer and guitarist of the band Pop Will Eat Itself.

His soundtracks include ones to the films π, Requiem for a Dream, The Hole, The Fountain, Black Swan and computer game Mass Effect 3.

Marek Okon from Poland is 30. He’s really passionate about painting and considers it a big part of his life. When it comes to digital art, he’s self taught, or rather Internet taught. He is known to the Internet community under the nickname Ome. N 2501.

His hobby and pastime have become his job. Marek has already worked for such famous companies as Legendary Pictures, Naughty Dog, Bio. Ware, Timegate, Sega, Games Workshop, Solaris, Imagine. FX, Sony Online Entertainment, Cry. Tech. At the moment he is working on the computer game “The Last of Us”.

Limkis is a Russian girl Masha Gubar who creates digital art. She studied fine arts in Saratov Art College and in School Generic Photo in Switzerland. Now she works for Mental Games Company and continues to develop her gift and to create new bright and eccentric digital art works in her extraordinary manner.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

IRELAND. RIVERDANCE.

Riverdance is a theatrical show of traditional Irish step Riverdance dancing, known for its fast leg movements while body and arms are kept nearly immovable.

It originated as an interval performance during the Eurovision Song Contest. Riverdance first performed at the Point Theatre, Dublin on 30 April 1994.

In 1995 the Riverdance video remained in the charts and became the all time highest selling music video in the UK. It features and popularizes the Irish culture worldwide.

Michael Ryan Flatley, the artistic director and founder of Riverdance Dancing Show is Irish American. Flatley was the first American to win the World Irish Dance Championships and numerous All-Ireland Flute Championships.

Flatley created and choreographed the original Riverdance and led the show to great success.

In February 1998 Flatley broke his own record in tap-dance performing 35 taps per second.

RUDYARD KIPLING

Bombay, India, is the land where Rudyard Kipling was born in 1865 and began to write his books. His father was a teacher at a Bombay school of art. Indian servants took care of Rudyard and taught him the Hindi language of India. His respect for this country remained with him throughout his life and colored much of his writing.

At six, young Kipling was taken to England educated at English College in North Devon.

Limited family finances prevented Kipling from going to a University. He returned to India instead and became involved in journalism He wrote articles based on his travels in Northern India. Many were later collected in the book “From sea to sea”.

Between 1887 and 1899 Kipling traveled around the world. He visited China, Japan and lived for a few years in America where he married an American Caroline Starr Balistier

Kipling ‘s works “The Jungle Book”, “Kim”, and “Just So Stories” at once gained wide popularity with the public.

His private life was unhappy. He lost his daughter and after his son’s death in World War I he almost stopped writing. In 1936 Kipling was at work on a collection of autobiographical notes, when he died on January 17, a few weeks after his seventieth birthday.

A talented storyteller, Kipling was one of those rare writers who were successful both in prose and poetry. In 1907 he became the first British writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature.

The most famous his works: “The Jungle Book”

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