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  More info about: Lord Kelvin, William Thomson
  Lord Kelvin, William Thomson
The Right Honourable William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, GCVO, OM, PC, PRS was a Scottish-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer, an outstanding leader in the physical...
         
  More info about: Jules Verne, Pioneer of Science Fiction
  Jules Verne, Pioneer of Science Fiction
Jules Verne, French writer and pioneer of science fiction, whose best known works today are Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea(1870) and Around the World in Eighty D...
         
  More info about: Leo Tolstoy, Russian Writer
  Leo Tolstoy, Russian Writer
Count Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist and philosopher, considered one of the world's greatest writers. About 1876 the doubts that had beset Tolstoy since youth, fed by h...
         
  More info about: Muybridge, Father of Motion Picture
  Muybridge, Father of Motion Picture
Eadweard Muybridge is often called the father of the motion picture because of his photographic studies of animal motion. He began his career as a landscape photographer...
         
  More info about: Eduard Suess, Discovery Supercontinent
  Eduard Suess, Discovery Supercontinent
Eduard Suess was a geologist who was an expert on the geography of the Alps. He is responsible for discovering two of the Earth's major now-lost geographical features, th...
         
  More info about: Ernst Haeckel, German Naturalist
  Ernst Haeckel, German Naturalist
Ernst Haeckel was an eminent German biologist, naturalist, philosopher, physician, professor and artist who discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapp...
         
  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: 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: 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: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German army officer and airship inventor and builder. He entered the Prussian army in 1858 and served in the Seven Weeks War and in the Franc...
         
  More info about: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist
  John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. was an American industrialist who played a prominent role in the early oil industry with the founding of Standard Oil (ExxonMobil is the lar...
         
  More info about: Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
  Auguste Rodin, Sculptor
Auguste-René Rodin, French sculptor and draughtsman. He is the only sculptor of the modern age regarded in his lifetime and afterwards to be on a par with Michelangelo. B...
         
  More info about: Antonin Dvorak, Composer
  Antonin Dvorak, Composer
Antonin Dvorak was the greatest Bohemian composer and one of the leading masters of symphonic and chamber music of the late 19th century. Dvorak displayed unusual musical...
         
  More info about: Edward VII of the United Kingdom
  Edward VII of the United Kingdom
Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death on 6 May 1910. He was the first British mona...
         
       


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