… was born the first of nine children during 1924 in Harlem. His father, David, was a clergyman and a factory worker, and was the source of all of James Baldwin's fears. Baldwin's mother, Berdis, was a homemaker. Baldwin first started writing around…

… of the twentieth century, Time magazine affirmed Joyce's lasting legacy in the realm of English literature. James Joyce (1882-1941), the twentieth century Irish novelist, short story writer and poet is a major literary figure of the twentieth-century.…

… lasted precisely 304 years. Nicholas II ascended the throne of Russia with his new wife Alexandra Feodorovna in 1894; the new Czar and Czarina were 26 and 22. Most European nations had developed their technology slowly; and consequently, the people…

… May 29, 1917 around 3:00pm in Boston, Massachusetts. He was born in the master bedroom of the Kennedy's brookline house. His parents were Brookline Rose Fitzgerald and Joe Kennedy. At this particular time, a stressful war was near and his father…

… Brookline, Massachusetts, the second oldest in a family of nine children. Joe Junior, was born first, then Jack, Rosemary, Kathleen, Eunice, Patricia, Robert, Jean, and Edward. He was also the great-grandson of Irish immigrants who came to America…

… world-renowned French chemist and biologist who lived during the 1800’s. He founded the science of microbiology and proved the germ theory of disease. His work also provided the world with the process of pasteurization and important vaccines for severa…

… Gandhi, the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism and the prophet of nonviolence in the 20th century, was born, the youngest child of his father's fourth wife, on Oct. 2, 1869, at Porbandar, the capital of a small principality in Gujarat in western…

… Nigeria a gold -coast african villiage, sold into slavery to another village, moved to another village as a slave , and finally captured and sold to the European slavers. Equiano was bought by Michael Henry Pascal, a British naval officer, who names…

… also spelled Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, was born in Votkinsk, in the city of Vyatka, Russia, May 7, 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter, to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St.…

… He was one of the greatest factors that kept the confederacy alive through the four years of our Civil War. Through a rough childhood and many struggles, he rose to become one of the most respected leaders in history. He is revered as a hero,…