Bessie Stringfield (1911 – 1993), nicknamed The Motorcycle Queen of Miami was the first black woman to travel the United States alone and on a motorcycle, facing many racist and sexist prejudices along the way . A room on a map Bessie Stringfield was born in Kingston, Jamaica to a white Dutch mo
Born in Rennes in 1837, Georges Boulanger joined Saint-Cyr, a school for army officers, at the age of 17. He participated in several military campaigns and became the youngest general of his promotion in 1880.His entry into the political world began in 1886, when he was appointed Minister of War. He
Germaine Tillion ( 1907 – 2008), is a French ethnologist and resistance fighter. She has worked extensively on the Second World War and the Algerian War. Graduate in Ethnology Daughter of Émilie Cussac, writer, and Lucien Tillion, magistrate, Germaine Tillion was born on May 30, 1907 in Allègre (H
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