Personalities

Long before Gloria Vanderbilt’s name was on the back of her jeans or her son Anderson Cooper broke the news, Gloria Vanderbilt was in the […]

Founded in 1540, the Jesuits were originally a militaristic order of monks convened by the Catholic Church to travel the world and spread the word […]

Taken on March 5, 1960 in Havana, Cuba, by photographer Alberto Korda, this famous photo of Latin American revolutionary Che Guevara is one of the […]

Lillie Chin (mother of Vincent Chin, who was clubbed to death by two white men in June 1982) breaks down as a relative (left) helps […]

356 BC In the 4th century BC, one of the most notorious arsonists of antiquity, Herostratus, set fire to the impressive Greek temple of Artemis […]

King C. Gillette’s parents must have had high hopes when they named him. Luckily he lived up to the hype and became a wealthy entrepreneur […]

doctor Martin Luther King Jr. speaking before a crowd of 25,000 civil rights protesters from Selma To Montgomery, Alabama in front of the Montgomery, Alabama State Capital […]

It is probably hard to believe that a two-time Nobel Prize winner for her work in physics and chemistry, a person who discovered and coined […]

“Ok” is one of those words that are part of our vernacular that we don’t even think about, but  where did it come from  ? Theories abound, from […]

During his lifetime, John Keats was far from the most important poet of the Romantic movement. In fact, he had only been serious about poetry for […]