Lyndon Baines Johnson was born on August 27, 1908, near Stonewall, Texas, in a small farmhouse on the Pedernales River. He was the eldest of five...
Parks turned a NAACP activist in 1943 and took part in a number of excessive profile civil rights circumstances. She was awarded quite a few honors for...
Edison’s most famous inventions include the phonograph, motion picture camera and the electric light bulb. Thomas Edison’s record 1,093 patented inventions have greatly improved the world...
John Paul II was a very influential figure in the Catholic Church and the world at large. He was known for his strong stance against communism...
Van Gogh’s life was marked by poverty and mental illness. He suffered from depression and anxiety throughout his life and was hospitalized several times. In 1890, he died...
Leonardo da Vinci died on Might 2, 1519, at Cloux [now Clos-Lucé], France. He was a Renaissance man who excelled in portray, sculpture, structure, engineering, science,...
Jawaharlal Nehru was a principal leader of the Indian nationalist movement in the 1930s and 1940s. He was elected as a president of the congress for...
Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco; Spanish: Francisco; born Jorge Mario Bergoglio) is the head of the Catholic Church, the bishop of Rome and sovereign of...
Pope Francis was born Jorge Mario Bergoglio on December 17, 1936, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He’s the bishop of Rome and the chief of the Roman Catholic...
Queen Victoria was born on Could 24, 1819. Her mother and father had been Edward, Duke of Kent and Strathearn and Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld. She married Prince Albert...