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"Champions are made of something they have deep inside of them.
A desire, a dream, a vision.
They must have last minute stamina.
They have to be fast.
They must have the skill and the will.
But the will must be stronger than the skill.
Ayrton Senna

Aryton Senna was the greatest brazilian driver of all time was born in Sao Paulo on March 21, 1960.

Today he would complete 50 years and certainly still participate actively in racing either on your own team or even running on events like the 24 Hours of LeMans. Senna was three times world champion of Formula 1 in the years 1988, 1990 and 1991 and also twice runner-up in 1989 (a championship very controversial given to his punishment at the final race) and 1993 (third year of Schumacher in the category)

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Roberto Burle Marx is internationally known as one of the most important landscape architects of the 20th century. An artist of multiple facets, besides being a landscape designer he was also a remarkable painter, sculptor, singer, and jewelry designer, with a sensibility that is shown throughout his work. Born in São Paulo in August 4th, 1909, Roberto Burle Marx moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1913. During the years of 1928 and 1929 he studied painting in Berlin - Germany, where he was often seen at the Dahlem Botanic Garden's greenhouses. In this garden he noticed for the first time the beauty of the tropical plants and the Brazilian flora.

His first landscape project was a private garden for a house designed by the Architects Lucio Costa and Gregory Warchavchik in 1932. Since then, his landscape works improved as well as his painting and drawing.

In 1949, he bought a 365,000m2 estate in Barra de Guaratiba, in the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, where he started to organize his big collection of plants.