… oldest son of a shoemaker. He was very well educated. At twenty-three, he went off to London and became the dramatist for the theatre company owned by Lords Admiral and Strange. He was nicknamed “Kit” by his close friends. In the spring of 1593, a…

… was the second son of nine children of Joseph Patrick Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. The ancestors before him were of Wayford County in Ireland. John F. Kennedy's father served as first chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and a…

… the 26th president, but also a “nature lover and conservationist (Whitehouse).” Theodore Roosevelt became president in 1901 after the assassination of William McKinley, and was re-elected in the 1904 election. Being one of the younger presidents to…

… of Hodgenville Kentucky, rose to become one of the greatest presidents of the United States. During his attempt to keep the Union in the Civil War, he gained more power and authority than any president before him. A excellent politician, Lincoln was…

… David Salinger grew up in a New York City milieu. Salinger’s upbringing was not unlike that of Holden Caulfield, the Glass children, and many other characters used in his stories. “Being a diligent student was never his first priority: after he flunked…

… purpose and moderation are. His approach is very common sense, although somewhat wordy, with a notion that one needs to have experience in these areas to fully realize what they mean. He uses everyday occurrences when trying to explain these…

… Warhol was born in 1928 in Forest City, Pennsylvania. He attended Schenley High School in Pittsburgh until 1945 when he moved on to college. After graduating from the Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie-Mellon University, in June…

… have said that he visited Egypt and invented a device there now known as Archimedes' screw. This screw is a pump, still used in many parts of the world. When Archimedes was a young man, he studied with the descendants of Euclid in Alexandria.…

… United States (1861-1865) and one of the great leaders in American history. A humane, far-sighted statesman in his lifetime, he became a legend and a folk hero after his death. Lincoln rose from humble backwoods origins to become one of the great…

… Poe was born in Boston, grew up in Richmond, Virginia, and lived in six Eastern cities. His father was David Poe, a Baltimore actor. His actress mother, Elizabeth came to the United States as a kid. The parents were not that talented; they played small…