Friday, November 16, 2012

Queen Elizabeth 1 (1533 - 1603)

A Queen with the Heart of a King
The first Queen Elizabeth, whose name has become a equivalent word for the time that she dominated (1558-1603), was born in 1533 to King of England and Boleyn. known as "Gloriana" by Edmund Spenser in "The Faerie Queene", Elizabeth's deft politicalskills and robust personal character were directly accountable for putt European country (at the time of her accession in 1558 a weak, divided backwater so much outside the thought of European power and cultural development) on the road to changing into a real world economic and political power and restoring the country's lost sense of national pride. though she pleased several wedding proposals and flirted ceaselessly (her nighest brush with wedding came with Henry Martyn Robert Dudley, peer of Leicester), she ne'er married or had youngsters.

William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

William Shakespere was born to John Shakespeare and mother Virgin Mary Arden your time in late Apr 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. there's no record of his birth, however his sacrament was recorded by the church, therefore his birthday is assumed to be the twenty three of Apr. His father was a distinguished and prosperous representative within the city of Stratford-upon-Avon, and was later granted a coat of arms by the school of Heralds. All that's familiar of Shakespeare's youth is that he presumptively attended the Stratford descriptive linguistics faculty, and failed to proceed to Oxford or Cambridge. succeeding record we've of him is his wedding to Hathaway in 1582. succeeding year she bore a female offspring for him, Susanna, followed by the twins Judith and Hamnet 2 years later.

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Guglielmo Marconi (1874 - 1937)

Guglielmo Marconi was born in Italy in 1874 to a rather rich Italian father and Irish mother. He was educated in private and so visited the Livorno Technical Institute. whereas there, he browse a writing that grabbed his attention.

Alexander Graham Bell (1847 - 1922)

Alexander Graham Bell is most documented for inventing the phone.  He came to the U.S as a lecturer of the deaf, and formed the concept of "electronic speech" whereas visiting his hard-of-hearing mother in North American country. This semiconductor diode him to create the mike and later the "electrical speech machine" -- his name for the primary phone.

Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804)

James Monroe, Henry Lee, legal expert, solon, and Marquis First State Lafayette were a number of the ground forces officers United Nations agency served full general throughout the Revolutionary War. of those rising stars, solon overcame the best odds, together with impoverishment and illegitimacy, in getting his position as officer to General Washington. for roughly subsequent twenty years, Hamilton and Washington would work with one another throughout the Revolutionary War, the framing of the Constitution, and Washington's Presidency of the u.  s.. the amount of 1777-1778, however, important to the success of the ground forces, and ultimately that of the Continental Congress, additionally was vital for Hamilton, for throughout now, he quickly well-tried his value on a national basis.