Son of a candle merchant, Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts; he is the youngest of a family of 17 children. In 1723, he settled as a printer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1727, he created a reading and discussion club, the Junto, and in 1731 founded the first library in
Teutons and Vikings were feared warriors. Not only their wild battle cry preceded them, but also the clang of their war weapons. In close combat, the men from the north used a dreaded short sword, the sax. From the Iron Age to the High Middle Ages, this cutting weapon cut through ranks - and even to
Fidel Castro he was the son of a Spanish sugarcane plantation owner who graduated in Law in 1950. His revolutionary trajectory began when he decided to fight for the overthrow of the Fulgencia Batista dictatorship in the 1950s. He was even arrested for the attack to the Moncada Barracks, but was gra
Chester William Nimitz (February 24, 1885, Fredericksburg, Texas – February 20, 1966) was an American Admiral. During World War II, he was Commander-in-Chief of United States Forces in the Pacific. He was commander of the American submarine fleets and was chief of the navigation office in 1939. Nim