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Diana, Princess of Wales

July 1, 1961 – August 31, 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, who is the eldest child and heir apparent of Queen Elizabeth II. Diana was born into an aristocratic English family with royal ancestry as The Honourable Diana Spencer. She was the fourth child of John Spencer, Viscount Althorp and his first wife, the Honourable Frances Roche, daughter of the 4th Baron Fermoy. Diana became Lady Diana Spencer when her father inherited [...]

Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine

May 2, 1729 – November 17, 1796 Yekaterina Alexeevna or Catherine II, also known as Catherine the Great was the most renowned and the longest ruling female leader of Russia, reigning from 9 July,1762 until her death on 17 November 1796 at the age of sixty seven. Her reign was called Russia’s golden age. She was born in Stettin, Pomerania, Prussia as Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt Zerbst Dornburg, and came to power following a coup and the assassination of [...]

William Blake

November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827 William Blake was an English poet, painter and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. His prophetic poetry has been said to form “what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language”.His visual artistry led one contemporary art critic to proclaim him “far and away the [...]

John Maynard Keynesl)

June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946 John Maynard Keynes,was a British economist whose ideas have fundamentally affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, and informed the economic policies of governments. He built on and greatly refined earlier work on the causes of business cycles, and is widely considered to be one of the founders of modern macroeconomics and the most influential economist of the 20th century.His ideas are the basis for the school of thought known as Keynesian [...]

Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell)

June 25, 1903 – January 21, 1950 Eric Arthur Blair,known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and commitment to democratic socialism. Commonly ranked as one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century and as one of the most important chroniclers of English culture of his generation,Orwell wrote literary criticism, poetry, fiction and polemical journalism. He is [...]

Galileo Galilei

February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642 Galileo Galilei ,often known mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the “father of modern observational astronomy”, the “father of modern physics”,the “father of science”,and “the Father of Modern Science”. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases [...]

Annelies “Anne” Marie Frank

June 12, 1929 – March 1945 Annelies “Anne” Marie Frank is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Her wartime diary The Diary of a Young Girl has been the basis for several plays and films. Born in the city of Frankfurt in Weimar Germany, she lived most of her life in or near Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. Born a German national, Frank lost her citizenship in 1941. She gained international fame posthumously after her diary was [...]

Florence Nightingale

May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910 Florence Nightingale, OM, RRC was a celebrated British social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing. She came to prominence while serving as a nurse during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was known as “The Lady with the Lamp” after her habit of making rounds at night. Early 21st century commentators have asserted Nightingale’s achievements in the Crimean War had been exaggerated by the media at the [...]

Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE

April 3, 1934 Dame Jane Morris Goodall, DBE is a British primatologist, ethologist, anthropologist, and UN Messenger of Peace.Considered to be the world’s foremost expert on chimpanzees, Goodall is best known for her 45 years study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park, Tanzania.She is the founder of the Jane Goodall Institute and the Roots & Shoots program, and she has worked extensively on conservation and animal welfare issues. She has served on the [...]

Thomas Paine

February 9, 1737 – June 8, 1809 Thomas Paine was an English American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. As the author of two highly influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, he inspired the Patriots in 1776 to declare independence from Britain.His ideas reflected Enlightenment era rhetoric of transnational human rights.He has been called “a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination”. Born in Thetford, England, in the county of Norfolk, Paine [...]