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Horace Mann
Horace Mann
Horace Mann was the father of the American School System. Horace Mann’s had many reforms on education. He was born in 1796. Mann determined what the purpose of education should be based on his own experien...
P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum
P. T. Barnum
Phineas Taylor Barnum reinvented the circus. His knowledge of what people want and how to make people think they want what he had was amazing. He constantly fooled people and had a way of makin...
Sam Adams
Sam Adams
Every so often, a man of true passion is born. A man exceedingly dedicated
to his principles, and very firm in his beliefs. Samuel Adams was such a
man. Adams was a patriot, and one of the more influential ...
Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer
LIBERALISM:
HERBERT SPENCER.
The most extreme reflection of nineteenth-century individualism is to be found in the encyclopedic system of Herbert Spencer (1820-1903). Both his paternal and maternal ancestor...
William Wallace
William Wallace
William Wallace:
What is the True Story?
For generations, William Wallace has been a hero to Scotland and a patron of freedom. After Mel Gibson’s portrayal of Wallace in the award winning movie, Bravehe...
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was bornabout 1480 in Sabrosa of a noble Portuguese family. His parents, who were members of nobility, died when he was about10 years old. At the age of 12, Magellan became a page to Qu...
Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest
Lee De Forest was born Aug. 26, 1873, Council Bluffs, Iowa. De Forest was the son of a Congregational minister. His father moved the family to Alabama and there assumed the presidency of th...
Donatello
Donatello
Donatello (1386-1466) was a master of sculpture in bronze and marble and was considered one of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists of his time. There is much more to know about him, though then the name...
Billy Graham
Billy Graham
"This is the Hour of Decision with Billy Graham, coming to you from Minneapolis Minnesota" Billy Graham, has preached to more than 210 million people through a live audience, more than anyone else in history. ...
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the second child of nine children. He lived in the suburbs of Boston but as his family grew his father's income increased and ...
Washington Irving
Washington Irving
Washington Irving was the first native American to succeed as a professional writer. He remains important as a pioneer in American humor and the development of the short story. Irving was greatly admired...
Ernest Rutherford
Ernest Rutherford
Rutherford was born on August 30, 1871, in Nelson, New Zealand. He was educated at the University of New Zealand and the University of Cambridge. He was a professor of physics at McGill Univers...
Alfred Nobel
Alfred Nobel
The inventor of dynamite was a very important roll to take part in. The ultimate inventor of it was a mane named Alfred Nobel. Before dynamite, miners had to use nitrogen to blow holes in rock and other thin...
Elvis Aron Presley
Elvis Aron Presley
At the time, no one realized that The world of music and entertainment would forever
change. It was noon, on January 8, 1935, when Gladys Smith Presley, a poor Mississippi
God-fearing sewing machine o...
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson has exceeded the point of recognition, and has become a role model for young and old alike. Her popularity has evolved over the years due in part for her notorious role as Special Agent Da...