Elon Musk is a South African-born American entrepreneur who co-founded the electronic-payment firm PayPal and formed SpaceX, maker of launch vehicles and spacecraft. He was also one...
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, situated within the Jura area of France. He grew up within the city of Arbois, and his...
John Maynard Keynes was an English economist, journalist, and financier best known for his economic theories (Keynesian economics) on the causes of prolonged unemployment. He was born...
Charles de Gaulle’s political profession spanned each world wars and his political profession, interrupted by a brief retreat from public affairs within the Fifties, occurred throughout...
Charles de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who acted as leader of the Free French during the Second World War. He was one of the...
The Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity is an annual award of €1 million that recognizes people, groups of people and/or organizations from all over the world whose...
Greta Thunberg is a Swedish environmental activist who worked to address the problem of climate change. She was born on January 3, 2003, in Stockholm, Sweden. She is...
Barack Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii. His father, also named Barack Hussein Obama, grew up in a small village in Nyanza Province,...
Barack Obama was the 44th president of the United States (2009–17) and the first African American to hold the office. Before winning the presidency, Obama represented...
Rosa Parks was an American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955. This act of...
