Biography

Ezra Ames (1768-1836), a famous American portraitist, was born in Massachusetts and worked as a furniture and carriage painter until 1790 when he decided to devote his talent to portraits…

Vallabhbhai Patel was born on October 31, 1875, in a farmer’s family in Nadiad, Gujarat. His father, Zaverbhai, had served in the army of Jhansi ki Rani, and his mother,…

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois, known as W.E.B. Du Bois, was born on February 23, 1868, in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. While growing up in a mostly European American town, he…

Jesse Jackson was a U. S civil rights leader. He became a part of the movement as a college student and was influenced by Martin Luther King. He was born…

In 1908, Theodore Huebner Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan. There he was raised by his mother and father, who owned a greenhouse with their uncle. As a child, he…

Edward Estlin Cummings (October 14, 1894 – September 3, 1962) will forever be an inspiring architect of poetry. He has written 2,900 poems, two novels, four plays, and many essays;…

Kenneth Lay once said “we had realized the American Dream and were living a very expensive lifestyle, the type of lifestyle where it is difficult to turn off the spigot….

Born May 7, 1840 in Votkinsk, Russia, Tchaikovsky was a famous composer during the romantic time period of music and was the most famous Russian composer. Tchaikovsky was born to…

Alexander Drummond, born in 1938, is a professional writer and former director of publications for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. Drummond, who grew up and attended…

Dr. Paul Robin Krugman is an American economist, bestselling author, and professor. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 2008 for Economics. Dr. Krugman is an international economics that experience’s…

Arthur Evans’ Father was an Archeologist, which may have led to Evans’ discoveries. His father also collected, which may have resulted in Arthur a love of archeology. Evans studied at…

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac, later known as Jack Kerouac, was born on March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts. He was born to his mother and father, Gabrielle Levesque and Leo…

It has often been said that Jeffrey Archer’s own story would make an international bestseller. He was born in London, brought up in Somerset, the son of a printer, and…

William Edward Burghardt Du Bois was born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on February 23, 1868 to Mary Silivans and Alfred Du Bois. A descendant of African American, French, and Dutch…

Dr. C.V. Raman was born on November 7, 1888 in an orthodox South Indian Brahmin family in tirchurappalli, Tamilnadu. His father’s name was Chandra Shekhar Aiyer who had special interest…

In his first trip to Mexico, in 1934, Henri Cartier Bresson is a country that is a paradox, a land where the past and present coexist dimensions offering surreal scenes….

In this paper, we will examine the life of Allan Pinkerton. We will examine how his history with law enforcement influenced the major events that involve the Pinkerton Detective Agency…

Alia Bhatt (born 15 March 1993) is an Indian actress and model who appears in Bollywood films. Born into a family where her parents, Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan, and…

Lev Davidovich Bronstein was a major political figure in the turn of the twentieth century for the USSR (Union of Soviet Socialists Republics) aka Russia. Bronstein’s impact was greater with…

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on July 18, 1918. He was born in Transkei, a small farming village in South Africa. He was the only child to attend school in…