Annie Cohen Kopchovsky, also known as Annie Londonderry (1870–1947), was the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by bicycle. The feat took him fifteen months. Young wife and mother Daughter of Beatrice and Levi Cohen, Annie Cohen was born in 1870, probably in Riga, Latvia, where her family or
King of England from 1509 to 1547, Henry VIII is best known for his complicated relationship with his wives, since he had two executed, and the annulment of his first marriage was the cause of the schism with Rome. Nevertheless, Henry VIII was also the king of an England who had the will to pose as
He is the kings bodyguard doctor. Marat is an embittered and solitary man, he writes alone his newspaper LAmi du Peuple where his violent articles have notably encouraged the massacres of September. He works to defend the sans-culottes within the Cordeliers club. Once the republic was proclaimed, he
He was born in 1480 into a family of minor nobility. He is a page at the court of Portugal then goes to the arms sector. In 1505, having become an officer, he took part in Francisco de Almeidas expedition to the East Indies, a first military and maritime experience which gave him a taste for travel