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  More info about: Sitting Bull, Dakota Sioux Leader
  Sitting Bull, Dakota Sioux Leader
Sitting Bull, Hunkpapa Sioux Leader and Medicine Man, born about 1837. He was the principal chief of the Dakota Sioux, who were driven from their reservation in the Blac...
         
  More info about: Sisi, Empress of Austria and Hungary
  Sisi, Empress of Austria and Hungary
Elizabeth Amalia Eugenia was born in Munich on the 24th December, 1837, the fourth of nine children to Duke Maximilian in Bavaria and his wife Ludovika. She was born not...
         
  More info about: Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President
  Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President
Stephen Grover Cleveland was both the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (...
         
  More info about: J. P. Morgan, Banker
  J. P. Morgan, Banker
John Pierpont Morgan was an American financier, banker and art collector who dominated corporate finance and industrial consolidation during his time. In 1892 Morgan arra...
         
  More info about: Abraham Kuyper, Dutch Theologian
  Abraham Kuyper, Dutch Theologian
Abraham Kuijper generally known as Abraham Kuyper, was a Dutch politician, journalist, statesman and theologian. He founded the Anti-Revolutionary Party and was prime min...
         
  More info about: Johannes van der Waals, Physicist
  Johannes van der Waals, Physicist
Johannes Diderik van der Waals was a Dutch scientist and thermodynamicist famous for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids which describe the relation...
         
  More info about: Frederick Hollyer, Photographer
  Frederick Hollyer, Photographer
Frederick Hollyer's portraits offers us an exclusive glimpse into late-Victorian and Edwardian celebrity culture. His sitters ranged from HG Wells to the Nobel prize-winn...
         
  More info about: The Cherokee Trail of Tears Timeline
  The Cherokee Trail of Tears Timeline
People of the Cherokee Nation memorialize congress protesting the Treaty of New Echola...
         
  More info about: Georges Bizet, French Composer
  Georges Bizet, French Composer
Georges Bizet, French composer. Son of a music teacher, he gained admission to the Paris Conservatoire at age 9, and at age 17 he wrote the precocious Symphony in C Major...
         
  More info about: John Muir
  John Muir
Writer, conservationist. America's most famous and influential conservationist, John Muir was the founder of the Sierra Club and a major influence on conservation policy...
         
  More info about: Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
  Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German army officer and airship inventor and builder. He entered the Prussian army in 1858 and served in the Seven Weeks War and in the Franc...
         
  More info about: Modest Mussorgsky, Russian Composer
  Modest Mussorgsky, Russian Composer
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, one of the Russian composers known as the Five, was an innovator of Russian music. He strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity,...
         
  More info about: Paul Cézanne, Postimpressionist
  Paul Cézanne, Postimpressionist
Paul Cézanne, French painter, one of the greatest of the Postimpressionists, whose works and ideas were influential in the aesthetic development of many 20th-century arti...
         
  More info about: John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist
  John D. Rockefeller, Industrialist
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr. was an American industrialist who played a prominent role in the early oil industry with the founding of Standard Oil (ExxonMobil is the lar...
         
  More info about: Piotr Tchaikovsky
  Piotr Tchaikovsky
Piotr Tchaikovsky, Russian composer, started piano studies at five and soon showed remarkable gifts. He began to compose at age ten, and soon after was sent to the Schoo...
         
         
 
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