French politician, who became lame as a child, he was destined for an ecclesiastical career and became bishop of Autun. He is a deputy to the States-General and head of the constitutional clergy. He left the Church and left for the United States. He was later Minister of Foreign Relations thanks to
Shivajis kingdom was now very big. The Mughal armies in South India were completely ruined by the wounds of Shivajis sword. The old sultans of Bijapur and Golconda were dead and the new sultans had no power to resist. Therefore Shivaji was now the sovereign master of his kingdom. The general public
Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868 – 1921) was an American astronomer. His important discovery about the periodic brightness variations of Cepheid stars has allowed astronomers to measure great distances in the universe, including those separating the Earth from very distant galaxies. The “Harvard Comput
Woman of letters, poet and scholar, Ban Zhao (around 40-45 – around 117-120) is the first known Chinese historian. Daughter and sister of historians Ban Zhao was born around 40-45 in Fufeng, near the city of Xianyang, capital of the Qin dynasty and located in the center of present-day China. China