American athlete, Wilma Rudolph (1940 – 1994) showed an iron will to overcome obstacles and won three gold medals at the Olympic Games. She paved the way for black American athletes. A sick childhood Seventeenth of a family of twenty-one children, Wilma Glodean was born prematurely on June 23, 19
Lavrenty Beria (photo:public domain) Lavrenty Beria (1899-1953) - a close associate of Joseph Stalin, head of the NKVD. Lavrentiy Beria was born to a peasant family in Abkhazia. He studied at the engineering department in Baku. In 1917 he joined the Bolsheviks, and probably four years later he j
On 29 March 1949, Sardar Patel along with his daughter Maniben and Yadvendra Singh left for Rajasthan by plane from Delhi. An engine failure occurred mid-way and the planes contact with the radio was cut off. The driver of the aircraft landed the aircraft in the riverbed, which saved Patel. When P
French woman of letters, she is the daughter of the famous banker Necker and the wife of the Swedish ambassador in Paris. At first favorable to the Revolution, it then condemns it after the fall of royalty. She retired to Switzerland with her father, where she met Benjamin Constant. But on her retur