At the end of each year it is accepted to make various selections, devoted to certain categories of people.They have made a similar selection of the most famous inhabitants of the Earth with disabilities and by employees of World Health Organization.
Voting was opened on December 3 of the past year when in the world International Day of Disabled Persons was celebrated and lasted till the end of 2020.
Following the results of voting into the list entered:
Stephen Hawking the Nobel Prize winner studying fundamental laws which operate the Universe.His books A brief history of Time and Black Holes and Baby Universes and other Essays became best sellers.
Already at 20 Stephen was almost completely paralysed because of development of the incurable form of atrophic sclerosis and remained in this condition till the end of life.The scientist said that the prospect for early death has forced him to understand that life is worthy to live.
The astrophysicist at 76 died.Shortly before death in March, 2018 the professor moved only fingers of the right hand with which he operated the moving armchair and the special computer at which he talked.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt 32nd US president.In 1921 Roosevelt was seriously ill with poliomyelitis.Despite attempts undertaken for many years to win illness, Roosevelt remained paralysed and chained to an invalid carriage.
In the presidential campaign of 1932 he won an impressive victory over Herbert Hoover, who could not manage to take the country out from the economic crisis of 1929-1933 known in the history, as Great depression.
It became the unique American president elected more than for two terms.One of the most considerable pages are connected with Roosevelt’s name in the history of foreign policy and diplomacy of the USA, in particular, an establishment and normalisation of diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and participation of the USA in the Antihitlerite coalition.
Aleksey Petrovich Maresyev the Soviet pilot on whom “The Story of a Real Man” was written. As a result of the wound received in April, 1942, doctors were compelled to amputate Maresyev’s both feet in the area of shin, but life was rescued. Despite the hardest traumas, in February, 1943 the pilot returned to his aircraft.
After the end of war some more years he worked as the instructor of school of the Air Forces in Moscow.Aleksey Petrovich all life was very active and struggled for the rights of invalids.
After war the veteran travelled all over the country much, became the honourable citizen of many cities and served a live proof of that circumstances which can be overcome.
Ludwig van Beethoven the German composer, the representative of the Viennese classical school.In 1796, being already famous composer, Beethoven started to lose hearing: he developed tinnitus an inflammation of the internal ear.
By 1802 Beethoven completely become deaf, but from now on the composer created the most famous works.In 1803-1805 Beethoven wrote an opera “Fidelio”.Besides, at this time piano sonatas with Twenty eighth on the last, Thirty second, two sonatas for violoncello, quartets and vocal cycle To the distant beloved were created.
Being already absolutely deaf, the composer created two most monumental compositions Missa solemnis and Symphony No. 9 in D minor.
Bethany Meilani Hamilton American professional surfer.The girl started to be engaged in surfing in her childhood.At 13 she lost her left hand, having undergone to a sudden attack of a shark.
And it nearly cost her life.But despite of everything, a month later Hamilton again returned back to her surfing.And after two years she won first place in female battalion division Explorer in the national championship NSSA.
Now Bethany is a writer, and her board with trace of a sting of a shark is exposed in the Californian museum of surfing.
Erik Weihenmayer the first-ever rock-climber who reached tops of the Everest, being blind.He lost sight when he was 13.Despite it, he could finish his study, and then and became the teacher of high school, then the trainer in wrestling and sportsman of world class.
About travel of Weihenmayer the television film “Touch the top of the world” was shot.Except the Everest, the climber subdued the seven of the highest mountain peaks of the world, including Kilimanjaro, and Elbrus.
In Turkmenistan there is variety of the organisations which are engaged in rendering assistance to people with disabilities.So, in 2019 the Support Center for Disabled Persons had a hothouse economy located on five hundred square metres.
In it representatives of public organisation grow various vegetable crops.It provides people not only fresh foodstuff, but also workplaces, and, in turn, helps them to feel high-grade members of society.