A war correspondent during his military career (1895-1899), his escape from prison in South Africa during the Boer War where he was to do a report brought him a certain celebrity. He was appointed Conservative MP in 1900, then joined the Liberal Party in 1904. Between 1906 and 1908, he was Under-Se
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) was a German composer and one of the greatest geniuses in the history of Western music. Placed at the junction of two eras with totally opposite tendencies, Beethoven , a contemporary of Haydn and Mozart, expressed classical perfection in his first compositions but a
Tunisian doctor and activist, Tawhida Ben Cheikh (1909 – 2010) is the first Muslim woman in the Arab world to become a doctor, pediatrician and gynecologist. From Tunis to Paris Tawhida Ben Cheikh was born on January 2, 1909, into a wealthy family in the city of Ras Jebel in northeast of Tunisia
Isabella Baumfree, nicknamed Sojourner Truth (circa 1797 – 1883) was an American abolitionist. A former slave, she became a fervent defender of the feminist and abolitionist cause. Emancipation Isabella Baumfree was probably born in 1797 in the city of Hurley (State of New York), in a family of s