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    The colorful personalities of famous people come alive to share their shortcomings, passions and achievements. Cross the boundaries imposed by time and space, and come face to face with your favorite (and not so favorite) historical figures.
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    King’s Counsellor: A Review

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    Following the great success of the film. 'The King's Speech' it is interesting to take a look behind the scenes of the Royal Household...

    The Turing Test and Philosophies of Alan Turing

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    Brief look at the philosophical workings of Alan Turing, famous for the Turing test, Enigma code-breaker and founder of computer science. Famous for the Turing...

    Theodore Roosevelt Junior, Founding Father of The American Legion

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    At the conclusion of World War I, Theodore Roosevelt envisioned a non-political association of veterans. The result became the American Legion. Two months after World...

    Horace and Baby Doe Tabor, Scandal and Romance

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    The year was 1878. Horace and Augusta Tabor spent twenty years of their marriage traveling from one mining camp to another, providing the miners...

    Eumenes of Cardia

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    We know nothing of Eumenes’ early life before he became a friend of Philip II of Macedon (342 BC) and then his secretary,...

    Billy Bishop – Canadian Flying Ace

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    William Avery Bishop, also known as Billy Bishop, was born in Owen Sound, Ontario on February 8, 1894. He was the third of four...

    Alexander The Great

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    Born in July of 356 BC in Pella, Macedon, Alexander The Great was one of the most successful military commanders in all of history....

    Cornelius Vanderbilt: Commodore Vanderbilt

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    Cornelius Vanderbilt dropped out of school at the age of 11 to work on the docks in New York. By age 16 he was...

    Nikolai Gogol: Famous Novelist, Failed Apostle

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    Gogol was a writer at odds with his own genius. What he did well-the comic and strange-he did not value. What he strove to...

    Dolley Madison’s Early Life: The Tragedy Before the Triumph

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    Dolley aka "Dolly" Madison, known as the originator of traditions continued by subsequent First Ladies, experienced personal tragedies in her early life. Dolley or "Dolly"...
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