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Biographies Essays
Christoper Marlow
Christoper Marlow
Christopher Marlow
Christopher Marlowe was born on February 6, 1564 (Discovering Christopher Marlowe 2), in Canterbury, England, and baptized at St. George’s Church on the 26th of the same month, exactly ...
William Blake
William Blake
To some people William Blake is just an ordinary man. To others, Blake is an English poet, painter, and engraver. Blake was born on November 28, 1757, in London, where he spent most of his life. He was the ...
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren is American's leading designer in the classic tradition, who has stayed true to his own point of view, despite the seasonal vagaries of fashion. Mr. Lauren has always believed that fashion is functi...
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Stalin’s official reign of terror ended with his death in 1953, but the effects of his autocratic rule continued for many years to follow. His lasting hold on the people of the former Soviet Union still...
Henry Carey
Henry Carey
Henry Charles Carey
(1793 B 1879)
One of the most highly regarded and best known economist of the early eighteen hundreds was Henry Carey. Of all the many American economists in the first half of the ninet...
D.H. Lawrence
D.H. Lawrence
An English novelist and poet, D.H. Lawrence was born September 11, 1885, in Nottingham, England. He was the son of a coal miner and a school teacher. His mother, the school teacher, was socially superior. She ...
George F. Handel
George F. Handel
The Artistry of G.F.Handel
(1685-1759)
First Part
Halle - Hamburg - Rome 1690-1712
It's hard today to speak about Handel's life and works without mentioning the similarities between him and Bach; first of ...
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington
Booker T. Washington: Fighter for the Black Man Booker T. Washington was a man beyond words. His perseverance and will to work were well known throughout the United States. He rose from slavery, delive...
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez
Jennifer Lopez was born in the Bronx, New York on July 24, 1970. She was born in the United States to Puerto Rican Parents, Jennifer considers herself to be a Puerto Rican and she is very proud of her Hispani...
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
Kurt Cobain
The number one cause of death in teens is suicide? Looking back to one of the most commonly known and most devistating suicides, of Kurt Cobain lead singer of the former band Nirvana. In his time of ...
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
On the stormy morning of Sunday, February 12, Nancy Hanks Lincoln, wife of Thomas, gave birth to a boy. He was born on a bed of poles covered with corn husks. The baby was named Abraham after his grandfather....
John Lennon
John Lennon
John Lennon
Lennon was born in 1940 during the Nazi bombing of Britain and given the middle name Winston, after Prime Minister Churchill. Knowing firsthand the horror of a world at war and living through the era...
Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
On November 27, 1942, Jimi Hendrix was born as John Allen Hendrix in Washington at Seattle General Hospital. His childhood was not a privileged one, however, he did indulge himself in one particular way: Jimi ...
Florence Nightengale
Florence Nightengale
Florence Nightingale is remembered throughout the world for her heroic, almost superhuman labors in the field of nursing. Florence Nightingale was born in Italy in 1820 and was named Florence after her...
James Boswell
James Boswell
In 1757 it does not appear that he published any thing, except some of those articles in the Literary Magazine, which have been mentioned. That magazine, after Johnson ceased to write in it, gradually declined...