The youth and beauty of Agnès Sorel will very quickly bring her to the notice of the King of France, Charles VII . She is presented to him as the prettiest woman in the kingdom. Very quickly, in 1444, Agnès Sorel rose to the rank of unofficial first lady of the kingdom of France. She has the status
Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-mis) (1743 – 1833) was an American woman, abducted as a child by Native Americans and later assimilated into Native American culture. She is best known for negotiating a treaty for her tribe. The Kidnapping of Mary Daughter of Jane and Thomas Jemison, Mary was born in the f
Freda Josephine McDonald, known as Josephine Baker (1906 – 1975) was a singer, dancer, actress and conductor. Activist and member of the resistance during the Second World War, she was committed to the fight against racism . An artists childhood Freda Josephine Mc Donald was born on June 3, 1906 in
Thomas Edward Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia was a British officer and writer, who organized the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Among the works written by Lawrence of Arabia, the Seven Pillars of Wisdom (Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926) is considered a major