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  More info about: Dowager Cixi, Empress of China
  Dowager Cixi, Empress of China
The Dowager Empress Cixi popularly known in China as the Western Empress Dowager, and officially known posthumously as Empress Xiaoqin Xian, was a powerful and charismat...
         
  More info about: Leopold II of Belgium
  Leopold II of Belgium
Leopold Louis-Philippe Marie Victor of Saxe-Coburg, succeeded his father, Leopold I of Belgium, to the Belgian throne in 1865 as Leopold II, King of the Belgians and rema...
         
  More info about: Mark Twain, Writer of Huckleberry Finn
  Mark Twain, Writer of Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain, pseud. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, American author, b. Florida, Mo. As humorist, narrator, and social observer, Twain is unsurpassed in American literature....
         
  More info about: Andrew Carnegie, Steel Magnate
  Andrew Carnegie, Steel Magnate
Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, on November 25, 1835. The son of a weaver, he came with his family to the United States in 1848 and settled in Alleghen...
         
  More info about: History of the Internet
  History of the Internet
1836 - Telegraph. Cooke and Wheatstone patent it. Why is this relevant? Revolutionised human (tele)communications. Morse Code a series of dots and dashes used to communic...
         
  More info about: Sitting Bull, Dakota Sioux Leader
  Sitting Bull, Dakota Sioux Leader
Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux Leader and Medicine Man, born about 1837. He was the principal chief of the Dakota Sioux, who were driven from their reservation in the Blac...
         
  More info about: Sisi, Empress of Austria and Hungary
  Sisi, Empress of Austria and Hungary
Elizabeth Amalia Eugenia was born in Munich on the 24th December, 1837, the fourth of nine children to Duke Maximilian in Bavaria and his wife Ludovika. She was born not...
         
  More info about: Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President
  Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President
Stephen Grover Cleveland was both the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (...
         
  More info about: J. P. Morgan, Banker
  J. P. Morgan, Banker
John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arra...
         
  More info about: Abraham Kuyper, Dutch Theologian
  Abraham Kuyper, Dutch Theologian
Abraham Kuijper generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime min...
         
  More info about: Johannes van der Waals, Physicist
  Johannes van der Waals, Physicist
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch scientist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids which describe the relation...
         
  More info about: Frederick Hollyer, Photographer
  Frederick Hollyer, Photographer
Frederick Hollyer's portraits offers us an exclusive glimpse into late-Victorian and Edwardian celebrity culture. His sitters ranged from HG Wells to the Nobel prize-winn...
         
  More info about: The Cherokee Trail of Tears Timeline
  The Cherokee Trail of Tears Timeline
People of the Cherokee Nation memorialize congress protesting the Treaty of New Echola...
         
  More info about: Georges Bizet, French Composer
  Georges Bizet, French Composer
Georges Bizet, French composer. Son of a music teacher, he gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire at age 9, and at age 17 he wrote the precocious Symphony in C Major...
         
  More info about: John Muir
  John Muir
Writer, conservationist. America's most famous and influential conservationist, John Muir was the founder of the Sierra Club and a major influence on conservation policy...
         
         
 
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