Biography

Of the children who survived, George, Francis, and Horace became prominent scientists (an astronomer, botanist, and civil engineer). Son Leonard became a soldier, politician, and economist.

Nancy’s father was also named Tom.

Here he took advantage of the resonant transformer's ability to generate a strong alternating electr ...

He claimed that he often dreams of him, like other men dream of women.

Between 1787 and 1793, she wrote stories and farces (including humorous short stories and a history ...

Caesar's 10 legions were led by Scipio's 10 legions supported by 2500 units of Numidian cavalry and ...

However, the geographical knowledge of the time was not very extensive, and he was confident that it would only take a few days to reach distant lands - he had no real idea of the size of the globe.

It began its fall activities with Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar.” Seats were on three floors. Th ...

The price he had to pay for freeing 20.000 Poles from Russian prisons and gulags was to take an oath of allegiance and pledge not to return to Poland.