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Edward Jenner was an English country doctor practicing in Berkeley, Gloucestershire, England, famous for his work introducing the Smallpox vaccine. Edward Jenner is alongside the likes of Joseph Lister, Robert Koch and Louis Pasteur in medical history. Edward Jenner’s great gift to the world was his vaccination for smallpox. This disease was greatly feared at […]

Helen Adams Keller was a deafblind American author, activist and lecturer. Helen Keller was born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Her disabilities were caused by a fever in February, 1882 when she was 19 months old. Her loss of ability to communicate at such an early developmental age was very traumatic for her and her family; as […]

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Ph. D., was a Nobel Laureate, Baptist minister, and African American civil rights activist. He is one of the most significant leaders in U. S. history and in the modern history of non-violence, and is considered a hero, peacemaker and martyr by many people around the world. King was […]

Thirteenth President. Born: January 7, 1800 in Cayuga County, New York. Died: March 8, 1874. Married to Abigail Powers Fillmore. In his rise from a log cabin to wealth and the White House, Millard Fillmore demonstrated that through methodical industry and some competence an uninspiring man could make the American dream come true. Born in […]

Twelfth President. Born: November 24, 1784 in Orange County, Virginia. Died: July 9, 1850 in Washington D. C. while in office. He got sick after eating cherries and milk at a July 4 celebration. He was the second president to die in office. Married to Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor. Northerners and Southerners disputed sharply whether […]

Third President. Born: April 13, 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia. Died: July 4, 1826 in Monticello in Virginia. Married to Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson. In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, «I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over […]

Vin Diesel is an American actor, writer, director, and producer. While he prefers to identify himself as a «multi-faceted» actor he has played a number of similar roles, as a result of early difficulties finding roles due to his very mixed heritage. He founded the production companies One Race Films, Tigon Studios, and Racetrack Records. […]

Michael Joseph Jackson, is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, actor, and philanthropist. He began his career as the lead singer of the Motown act, The Jackson 5, in the 1960s, and made his first solo recordings in 1971 as part of the Jackson 5 franchise. Jackson began a full-fledged solo career in 1979 and […]

Dr. Dre is an African-American record producer, rapper, and record executive, one of the most successful and well-known producers in the field of hip hop music. Dre is best-known as for his collaborations with West Coast hip hop artists such as Snoop Dogg, Warren G, and Tupac Shakur, and also as a former member of […]

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer of classical music, who lived predominantly in Vienna, Austria. Beethoven is widely regarded as one of history’s supreme composers who produced notable works even after he completely lost his hearing. Among his most widely-recognized works are his Fifth, Sixth and Ninth symphonies ; Piano Concerto No. 5 ; […]

Fourth President. Born: March 16, 1751 in Port Conway, King George, Virginia. Died: June 28, 1836 in Montpelier in Virginia. Married to Dolley Payne Todd Madison. At his inauguration, James Madison, a small, wizened man, appeared old and worn; Washington Irving described him as «but a withered little apple-John». But whatever his deficiencies in charm, […]

43-rd President of the United States. Born July 6, 1946. Married to Laura Welch Bush. George W. Bush is the 43rd President of the United States. He was sworn into office on January 20, 2001, re-elected on November 2, 2004, and sworn in for a second term on January 20, 2005. Prior to his Presidency, […]

Entrepreneur Russell Simmons a. k. a. Rush born in Queens, NY, is the co-founder, with Rick Rubin, of the pioneering hip-hop label Def Jam, and is also founder of another label, Russell Simmons Music Group. Simmons is the older brother of Rev. Joseph Simmons, better known as «Run» of Run-DMC, and is the son of […]

Elvis Aron Presley, also known as The King of Rock and Roll or The King, was an American singer and actor. Early in his career he was referred to as The Hillbilly Cat. Later, his friends referred to him as «E». Rolling Stone magazine said «Elvis Presley is rock ‘n’ roll» and called his body […]

Luther Vandross was an African-American R&B singer. During his career, Vandross sold 25 million albums and won eight Grammy awards including Best Male R&B Vocal Performance four times. He won four Grammy awards in 2004 including the Grammy Award for Song of the Year for the track «Dance With My Father», co-written with Richard Marx. […]

Jay-Z is a rap/hip hop performer and record label executive; one of the most popular and successful rappers of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Early career. Originally from the Marcy Projects in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn, Carter’s father abandoned the family when he was a young child and he was consequently raised by […]

Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of Edwin and Amy Earhart, was an American aviator and noted early female pilot who mysteriously disappeared over the Pacific Ocean during a circumnavigational flight in 1937. Early Life Amelia’s grandfather was Alfred Otis, a former federal judge and a leading citizen in Atchison who reportedly was not satisfied with her […]

Kevin Michael Costner is an American actor, producer, and Academy Award-winning director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award. His first leading role was the 1987 film The Untouchables, opposite Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, and Andy Garcia. Kevin Costner is well-known for his roles as […]

I wander thro’ each charter’d street. Near where the charter’d Thames does flow And mark in every face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infants cry of fear, In every voice: in every ban, The mind-forg’d manacles I hear How the Chimney-sweepers cry Every blackning […]

George Herman Ruth, , better known as Babe Ruth and also commonly known by the nicknames The Bambino and The Sultan of Swat, was an American baseball player and United States national icon. He was one of the first five players elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame and he was the first player to […]

Terrance Stanley «Terry» Fox, CC was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer treatment activist. He is considered one of Canada’s greatest heroes of the 20th century. Terry Fox was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada and was raised in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. After losing his leg at age 18 to osteogenic sarcoma, the young […]

First President. Born: February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Died: December 14, 1799 in Mount Vernon, Virginia. Married to Martha Dandridge Washington. On April 30, 1789, George Washington, standing on the balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York, took his oath of office as the first President of the United States».As […]

Doris «Dorie» Miller was an African American cook in the United States Navy and a hero during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was the first African American to be awarded the Navy’s second highest honor, the Navy Cross. Born in Waco, Texas, he enlisted in the Navy in 1939, and […]

Twenty-Third President. Born: August 20, 1833 in North Bend, Ohio. Died: March 13, 1901 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Married to Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison Nominated for President on the eighth ballot at the 1888 Republican Convention, Benjamin Harrison conducted one of the first «front-porch» campaigns, delivering short speeches to delegations that visited him in Indianapolis. As […]

Fifteenth President. Born: April 23, 1791 in Cove Gap near Mercersburg, Pennslyvania. Died: June 1, 1868 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Never married, was Harriet Lane’s uncle. Tall, stately, stiffly formal in the high stock he wore around his jowls, James Buchanan was the only President who never married. Presiding over a rapidly dividing Nation, Buchanan grasped […]

Dr. Condoleezza Rice became the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor, on January 22, 2001. In June 1999, she completed a six year tenure as Stanford University’s Provost, during which she was the institution’s chief budget and academic officer. As Provost she was responsible for […]

Dr. George Washington Carver was an African-American botanist who worked in agricultural extension in the southern United States. He taught former slaves farming techniques for self-sufficiency and is known for suggesting hundreds of uses for the peanut and other plants to increase the profitability of farming. Early years. Carver was born into slavery in Newton […]

First Lady of the United States. Married to President George W. Bush. Laura Bush is actively involved in issues of national and global concern, with a particular emphasis on education, health care, and human rights. In March 2005, Mrs. Bush made an historic trip to Afghanistan, witnessing firsthand the inspirational progress achieved by the Afghan […]

Nineteenth President. Born: October 4, 1822 in Delaware, Ohio. Died: January 17, 1893 in Fremont, Ohio. Married to Lucy Ware Webb Hayes. Beneficiary of the most fiercely disputed election in American history, Rutherford B. Hayes brought to the Executive Mansion dignity, honesty, and moderate reform. To the delight of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Lucy […]

Justin Randall Timberlake is an American singer who came to fame as a vocalist in the pop band *NSYNC. Justin Timberlake’s career began after a childhood stint on the American television talent show Star Search, when he became a cast member of The New Mickey Mouse Club teenage variety show. His co-stars on the show […]