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Cleopatra
Cleopatra
Elizabeth
Cleopatra Vll was born in 69 BC, in Alexandria, Egypt. Despite what people say today, that she was glamorous and beautiful, she was far from it. She is shown on ancient coins with a long hooked nose and ...
Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Metallifuckinka
Chuck Close (born 1940) is an American photorealist specializing in close-up portraits and self-portraits. Close is one of the very few modern realists or photorealists who focus on the human fac...
Queen Victoria
Queen Victoria
Mark Shuler
Queen Victoria was born in 1819 and she died in 1901. She was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901). Queen Victoria was born Alexand...
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams
Unknown
Hello, I'm John Quincy Adams. I grew up in Braintree, Massachusetts, and when I became an adult I traveled with my father on his diplomatic missions until I became interested in political journalis...
Saint John Bosco
Saint John Bosco
Unknown
A man with a vision, with an awareness of the good that lives in people, with an ability of dreaming dreams of beauty for those he met along his way, this is John Bosco.
St. John Bosco (1815-1888) ...
Charles Et Secondat, Baron De La Brede Et De Montesquieu
Charles et Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu
Unknown
Charles de Secondat, Baron de la Brede et de Montesquieu was born in 1689 to a French noble family. "His family tree could be traced 350 years, which in his v...
Daniel Webster
Daniel Webster
Anonymous
Daniel Webster was the ninth born son of Ebenezer Webster, who was a farmer and tavern-keeper. He was born in Salisbury, New Hampshire on January 18th in 1782. He was nicknamed “Black Dan.” When he ...
JFK: His Life And Legacy
JFK: His Life and Legacy
Unknown
On November 22, 1963, while being driven through the streets of Dallas, Texas, in his open car, President John F. Kennedy was shot dead, apparently by the lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald. The...
Carl Gauss
Carl Gauss
Carl Gauss was a man who is known for making a great deal breakthroughs in the wide variety of his work in both mathematics and physics. He is responsible for immeasurable contributions to the fields of number t...
Dr. John Henry Doc Holliday
Dr. John Henry 'Doc' Holliday
Unknown
On August 14, 1851 in Griffin, Georgia, John Henry Holliday was born to Henry Burroughs and Alice Jane Holliday. Their first child, Martha Eleanora, had died on June 12, 1850 at six mon...
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes lived from 1596 to 1650. He was a French mathematician, philosopher, and anatomist. He contributed to modern ideas, mainly those associated with science, rational thought, and the scientific met...
Carl Gustav Jung
Carl Gustav Jung
Unknown
Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a son of a minister in Switzerland. He was born on July 26, in the small village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. He was named after his grandfather, a professor of med...
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Unknown
Napoleon Bonaparte, who is also known as the "little Corsican", was born on August 15,1769 in Ajaccio, Corsica. His family had moved there from Italy in the 16th century. His original name was Nap...
George Washington
George Washington
charlie brown
Washington, George (1732-99), commander in chief of the Continental army during the American Revolution, and later the first president of the United States. He symbolized qualities of discipl...
Bram Stoker
Bram Stoker
Unknown
Abraham (Bram) Stoker was born November 8, 1847 at 15 The Crescent, Clontarf, North of Dublin, the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Stoker was bedridden with a myriad of childho...