Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Gabriel Betancourt Mejía (born April 27, 1918 in Medellín – died March 23, 2002 in Bogotá) was a Colombian economist and diplomat who served as Colombia's Minister of National Education in two occasions, and Permanent Delegate to UNESCO. Gabriel Betancourt was born in Medellín on April 27, 1918 to Pedro Nolasco Adriano Betancur Toro and Mariana Mejía Arango as the youngest of 9 children. Betancourt was a member of the government of president Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. He later became assistant director of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). He was also head of the education
Winifred M. A. Brooke Smithsonian Institution. She died in Alton, Hampshire on 4 November 1975. The Royal Geographical Society holds Brooke's notes on Switzerland and her guidebooks. The genus and some of the species named in honour of Brooke are: As Author: As Illustrator: Winifred M. A. Brooke Winifred Mary Adelaide Brooke (16 February 1893 – 4 November 1975) was a British botanist, illustrator and author who made scientifically significant collections of botany specimens, including in the Bolivian Andes. The plant genus "Misbrookea" was named in her honour by Vicki Funk. Brooke was born on 16 February 1893 in Stroud Green, London, England. She