Qian Xiuling or Siou-Ling Tsien de Perlinghi (1912 – 2008) was a Sino-Belgian chemist who distinguished herself by intervening to save the lives of a war hero and 97 hostages during World War II. Studies in Belgium Qian Xiuling was born in 1912 in Yixing, in the Chinese coastal province of Jiangs
Louise-Élisabeth Vigée, known as Madame Vigée-Lebrun (1755 – 1842) is a great French painter, a talented portraitist. A precocious artist Louise-Élisabeth Vigée was born on April 16, 1755 in Paris, to a mother of peasant origins and a pastel father. She is entrusted to peasants and, six years la
Son of Sigebert III and Emnechildis. Prior to Dagoberts birth, the mayor of the Grimoald Palace had had his own son, Childebert, adopted. On his death, the king entrusts his young son, Dagobert, to Grimoald. The mayor of the palace has him shaved and sent to a monastery in Ireland with his mother. H
Włodzimierz Lenin in the photo from March 1919. Włodzimierz Lenin (1870-1924) Russian politician, communist activist and then the first leader of the Bolshevik party. He was born on April 22, 1870 in Symbirsk on the Volga as Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. From 1893 he was active in Marxist organizat