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Selamat datang teman-teman, inilah info bagi kita-kita: yaitu kehidupan para tokoh terkenal (Quoted by Kevin from THE GIANT BOOK OF 1000 GREAT LIVES by Jonathan Law, published by Magpie Book, London 1997)

1. Muhammad Ali
   

Muhammad Ali, former name Cassius Clay (1942- ) US BOXER. He won the olympic light-heavyweight gold medal in 1960 and is the only man to have won the world heavy-weight championship 3x (1964, 1974, 1978). In 1967, having become a black muslim and changed his name, he was deprived of his title and forbidden to box for 3 years for refusing to serve in the US Army on religious grounds. With his slogan" I'm the greatest", he became well known for his flamboyant and colorful style. He now suffers from Pakinson's disease as result of blows to the head.

2. Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)

Italian explorer, popularly regarded as the discoverer of America. He maintained that the earth was round and that Asia could reached by sailing westward. In 1492, the king and the queen of Spain agreed to finance his voyage of exploration and he set sail with 3 ships, the Santa Maria, the Nina, and the Pinta. He reached Dominica and Cuba and called them the west Indies, thinking that they were part of Asia. He later explored the central and south American mainland and many more of the Caribbean islands, where he set up rich trading posts.

2. The Solar System
"WHAT IS THE SOLAR SYSTEM?. The solar system consist of the sun and the many objects that orbit around it --nine planets, over 150 moons, and countless asteroids and comets. The system occupies a disc-shaped volume of space more than 12,000 million km (7,500 million miles) across. At the centre is the sun, which contains more than 99 percent of the Solar System's mass". (Quoted by Kevin from Visual Encyclopedia of the space, David Hughes and Robin Kerrod, DK London,2006,p.32), 10-12-07