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   John Charles Fremont (1813-1890), was an American general and explorer, born at Savannah, Ga. He spent the years 1838-1839 exploring the ...

   Harriet Ware was an American composer. She studied piano under William Mason and pursued further studies in piano, voice, harmony and c...

   David Adams Warden was an American musician; born in London, England, in 1815; settled in the United States prior to the Civil War; was o...

BUFFALO BILL (William Frederick Cody) (1846-1917). Buffalo Bill was the last of the famous American frontier scouts. He was a sharp-shooter...

Iturbide    Agustin de Iturbide (1783-1824) was an emperor of Mexico. He was a native of Valladolid, Mexico. His father was a Spanish ...

   John Charles Frémont (1813-90) was an Amer­ican explorer, soldier, and politician, born in Savannah, Ga. After serving briefly as teach...

Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894)    Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894) was a noted German physicist. As a student at Berlin in 1880 he came under the...

Self-portrait by van Gogh     Vincent van Gogh  (1853-90) was a Dutch painter, born in Zundert, Brabant. From 16 to 22 he worked as an a...

   Alessandro Leopardi was an Italian sculptor: born in Venice in the last half of the 15th century; died there, about 1512. His earliest kn...

Victor Hugo    Victor Hugo (1802-85) was a French author, the greatest of the French romantics. His first volumes of verse, Odes el Poés...

F. W. Herschel    Sir Frederick William Herschel (1738-1822) was an English astronomer, born in Hanover, Germany. He went to England in...

Irving Berlin (1888-1989)     The American songwriter Irving Berlin helped define the modern American popular song. During his long car...

Verlaine    Paul Verlaine was a French poet, born in 1844. He became a figure in the Parisian half-world of struggling artists and writ...

King George VI    George VI, 1895-1952, king of Great Britain and Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the seas, was born in San...

F. Guizot (1787-1874)    Francois Guizot was a distinguished French statesman and his­torian. He was born at Nimes. At the age of twelv...

   Philip Freneau (1752-1832) was an American poet born in New York City, of Huguenot descent, and was graduated from Princeton in 1771, ...

  Shalom Aleichem is the pen name of Solomon Rabdjowitz, or Rabinovitz (1859-1916), Yiddish short-story writer and dramatist, born in Pereya...

Two Tahitian Women    Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was a French painter and leader in the post-impressionist movement, was born in Paris. Hi...

   Giuseppe Garibaldi was an Italian patriot. Born in Nice, France, July 4, 1807. Died in Caprera, Italy, June 2, 1882.    Garibaldi played...

   Johann  Gottlieb Fichte was a German philosopher and patriot. Born in Rammenau, Germany on May 19, 1762. Died Berlin, Germany, January ...