We tend to think kids must always inherit fortune from their parents.

However, there are some people who plan to pledge  majority of their fortune to charities, instead of handing it down to their offspring.

The James Bond star Daniel Craig, who has two daughters, thinks that inheritance is distasteful and will get rid of it before he goes.

Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay doesn’t want to spoil his five kids by giving them his fortune.

Simon Cowell, the creator of X Factor and Got Talent, will probably give his money to kids or dogs charity.

WORDS
to inherit: to receive money, property from someone after they have died.
to hand down: to pass something onto someone younger.

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Carlo Acutis was an Italian boy, born in London, who died at the age of fifteen after a short illness.

His parents were brought up in secular families but their son’s great faith in God brought them to the faith.

 His skills in programming enabled him to create websites for his parish and Vatican in the early 2000s.

One of the wisdoms he shared says: “All people were born originals but many die as photocopies.”

His mother gave birth to twins precisely to four years to the day after his death.

WORDS
secular: without any religion. 
parish: an area cared for by one priest. 

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“Smart people learn from everything and everybody, average people learn from their experiences and stupid ones have all the answers.” 

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people,”

“Let them who would move the world first move themselves.” 

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Boris Yeltsin, who died on April 23 at age 76, was the first elected president of Russia.

Yeltsin began his career for the Communist Party in the Soviet city of Sverdlovsk.

In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev made him the mayor of Moscow.

He became internationally famous in 1991 for standing on a tank during a coup which tried to remove Gorbachev from power.

Yeltsin started several economic reforms as president – many of which were very unpopular with the people.

Yeltsin was the leader of Russia during the First Chechen War from 1994 to 1996.

On December 31, 1999 he handed power to Vladimir Putin.

Yeltsin had been suffering from poor health for many years. He died of heart failure.

WORDS
mayor: an elected person that leads a town or city. 
coup: an illegal and violent taking of power. 
to hand: to give to. 

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Empress Maria Theresa was the absolute sovereign who ruled the Austro-Hungarian empire for forty years in the 18th century.

She gave birth to sixteen children and still managed to implement several significant reforms.

She wanted to educate her empire and introduced the schooling system compulsory for children between ages 6-12 of all levels of society.   

Her other reforms included the areas of public health, administration, forestry and military.  

WORDS
empress: a woman ruler of great power.
sovereign: a monarch, a  king or queen. 
compulsory: required, mandatory. 

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Zdeno Chara, or Big Z as he is called in the ice hockey world, was captain of the Boston Bruins team.

He was also  the tallest player in the league and probably the strongest one, too.

He has recently visited several orphanages and institutions assisting people with  disabilities in his homeland of Slovakia and gave hundreds of sports shoes to their residents.

“I was raised to be humble and grateful, for as little as I had or as much as I have, and to always care for others through my actions and not just words. The truth is, to give makes me happier than to get.” Zdeno Chara 

WORDS
sneakers (UK trainers): light, comfortable shoes used for sports activities. 
orphanage: a home for children who have no parents.
humble: not arrogant, proud or assertive. 

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Muhammad Ikram was born without hands in a poor family of nine children.

He was a deprived  child facing barriers to accessing an education.

Anyway, he has always had a passion for snooker and watched other people playing it.

As unimaginable as it may seem to many of us  he has managed to play the game of snooker by pushing the cue ball with his chin.

He believes he will play at the international level one day.

WORDS
deprived child: a child under 18 years of age who is not given  proper care and education. 

cue ball: the ball used in games such as snooker or billiard.

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In 1963, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space.

When she was very young, she developed an interest in parachuting.
Through this skill, she was able to become a cosmonaut.

She spent three days aboard the Vostok 6 in June 1963.

In 2000, she received an award in London as the Greatest Woman Achiever
of the Century.

WORDS
cosmonaut: a Soviet or Russian astronaut.

Be Able To = to have qualities or skills to do something successfully. 

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Raoul Wallenberg was a Swedish diplomat who worked in Budapest during the Second World War.

He helped to save lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews who would have been sent to the concentration camps by the Nazis.

Wallenberg provided Hungarian Jews with Swedish passports.

It is not known what happened to Wallenberg. He was placed on a train leaving from Budapest on January 17, 1945 and he was never heard from again.

WORDS
diplomat: a person, such as an ambassador, who represents a government.
concentration camp: a place where prisoners of war are kept under harsh, terrible conditions.

“…he was never heard from again. = … nobody has heard about him since that time, he has disappeared.” 

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Arkhipov was a Soviet Navy officer and a deputy commander of the ballistic missile submarine K-19 during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962.

He was the only one, of the three senior officers on board, who refused to authorize a nuclear torpedo attack against the United States Navy.

This shy and humble man received the first „Future of Life Award“ which was presented posthumously to his family in 2017.

WORDS
humble: believing that one is not important.
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