Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi, popularly known as Tiger Pataudi. He was the captain of the Indian cricket team, the youngest ever apparently, An Oxford graduate.
Rainer Maria Rilke was one of the most significant modernists to write in German. Born in Prague, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he escaped the military career expected by his father and devoted himself to literature.
Abraham Lincoln;: His life, work, and character. An anthology of history and biography, fiction, poetry, drama, and belles-lettres, by Edward Wagenknecht. Assassination Of Abraham Lincoln, Late President Of The United Sates Of America, And The Attempted Assassination Of William H. Seward And Frederick.
Adolphus Greely was only 18 years old but already a veteran of more than a year’s Army service by the time he was wounded in the face in combat in or near the West Woods at Antietam on the morning of 17 September He was a Corporal in Company B, 19th Massachusetts Infantry.
Saint George was born a Greek in Cappadocia, Asia Minor, today’s Turkey; after his parents died he travelled to Nicomedia, an ancient Greek city in Asia Minor, where he joined the Roman army under the Roman emperor Diocletian.
Biography. Mirtha Jung (born December 3, ) is a poet, an entrepreneur, and a writer who rose to fame following the release of the movie, Blow, in the year The film was about her drug smuggler ex-husband George Jung.
George Sakellaris is the founder and CEO of Ameresco, a clean technology integrator that trades on the New York Stock Exchange. He got his start working for the utility New England.
This set of trifold brochures features all 46 U.S. presidents from George Washington to Joe Biden. Perfect for biography reports and Presidents' Day, these foldable brochures are a great way to ensure your students are keeping their research organized and focusing on the most important aspects of th.
Ahlam bint Ali bin Hazeem Al Shamsi (Arabic: أحلام بنت علي بن هزيم الشامسي; born 13 February ), better known mononymously as Ahlam (Arabic: أحلام), is an Emirati singer and actress. She has released a total of 14 albums and numerous singles.
The man who would be king. George VI was born Albert Frederick Arthur George and often went by his nickname ‘Bertie’. He didn’t want to be king and was originally never meant to ascend the throne. As a boy and youth, he was shy and as the years passed by the chance of George becoming king dwindled.
England’s longest-ruling monarch before Queen Victoria, King George III () ascended the British throne in During his year reign, he pushed through a British victory in the.
Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, or Nellie Bly as she came to be known, was born in Cochran’s Mills, PA on May 5, Her paternal grandmother Catherine was one of Warren, PA’s (later to be renamed Apollo, PA) earliest settlers.