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...
Disney’s other notable works include Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Pinocchio (1940), Fantasia (1940), Dumbo (1941), Bambi (1942), Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951),...
Walt Disney was born on December 5, 1901, in Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood. He was an American motion-picture and television producer and showman, famous as a pioneer of...
George Orwell was a British writer who wrote novels, essays, and non-fiction books that explored political and social issues of his time. He was born in India...
Beethoven’s hearing began to deteriorate in his late twenties and he became completely deaf by his forties. Despite this, he continued to compose some of his most...
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...
Elvis Presley was an American standard singer broadly often called the “King of Rock and Roll” and one in all rock music’s dominant performers from the...
Martin Winston Churchill was a British statesman, orator, and author who as prime minister (1940–45, 1951–55) rallied the British people during World War II and led...
Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until...