Lakshmi Bâî (between 1828 and 1834 – 1858), rânî (sovereign) of the principality of Jhânsi in northern India is a heroine of the revolt of the Sepoys, war of independence and resistance to British colonization. Annexation of the state of Jhansi Lakshmi Bâî was born in Varanasi (northern India) in
Sergeant-major in 1789 and president of the Jacobins club of Besançon, he became major general in 1793. Commandant of the army of the Haut-Rhin then of the North, he conquered Belgium and the Netherlands in 1795. But, rallied to the royalist cause, suspected of treason, he had to resign (1796). In 1
Lise Meitner is an Austrian-turned-Swedish physicist, known for her work in nuclear physics and for having played a major role in the discovery of nuclear fission. Forgotten by the Nobel Prize, she is one of the many women scientists whose work has not been recognized at its fair value. The first f
Trained as a goldsmith, Gutenberg is known as the inventor of the printing press. After leaving Mainz in 1428, he settled in Strasbourg around 1434. He associated with several bourgeois and designed stone cutting and mirror manufacturing processes using an alloy of lead, tin and copper. enriched wit