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Nancy Wake was born in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1912. The family moved to Australia in 1914 and after being educated in Sydney she travelled to Eur...

ONE of the greatest contributors to the first Oxford English Dictionary was also one of its most unusual. In 1879, Oxford University in England asked ...

Most of you, no doubt, know the story of Newton and the falling apple and how it led to his discovery of the law of gravity. But how much do you know ...

In 1669 Newton became professor of mathematics at Cambridge. Three years later he joined the Royal Society. The Royal Society was a group of learned m...

Alfred Nobel, the great Swedish inventor and industrialist, was a man of many contrasts. He was the son of a bankrupt, but became a millionaire; a sci...

Confucius, the greatest teacher in the history of China, was born in 551 B.C. He began to devote himself to serious studies and made up his mind to be...

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was the greatest British statesman of modern times. During his long, colorful public career he was a member of parli...

He became a great reader. He read every book and newspaper he could get hold of, and if he came across anything in his reading that he wished to remem...

Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, 40 volumes of essays...

Benjamin Franklin is remembered as an inventor, author, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. But all great people were kids once ...