Cornelius Vanderbilt: Commodore Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt dropped out of school at the age of 11 to work on the docks in New York. By age 16 he was...
Cleopatra VII of Egypt – Ptolemaic Majesty
Cleopatra took the throne from her father, Ptolemy XII, at the age of eighteen. A few years later, she was swept off of it,...
Jack Brent: International Brigade Spanish Civil War
Canadian Origins
There must always be a place for physical objects as reminders of people and events in history. The recent chance observation of a...
Matilda of England: Empress, Countess and Queen
Matilda I of England (1102-1167) is deemed so hazardous to the idea of male rule in England that she is listed in genealogies as...
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Born in 1756 in the city of Salzburg, Bavaria, to Leopold and Anna Maria Pertl Mozart, his father was one of the leading musical...
Alexander The Great
Born in July of 356 BC in Pella, Macedon, Alexander The Great was one of the most successful military commanders in all of history....
The Great Enrico Caruso
Considered the greatest operatic tenor that ever lived, Enrico Caruso's life had humble beginnings in Naples, Italy where he was born on February 25,...
The Life and Struggles of Winston Churchill: Winston Ignored
In the 1930s, Winston worked hard and long, but fruitlessly, to impress on the British government that Hitler and Nazi Germany were dangerous and...
The Life and Struggles of Winston Churchill: World War One
Winston found his post as Home Secretary depressing, but his next task in government as First Lord of the Admiralty brought him even greater...
Johan Christian Fabricius: The Danish Zoologist
Johan Christian Fabricius lived from 7 January 1745 to 3 March 1808 and was a Danish zoologist specializing in insects which included what are...