Rosa Parks: The First Lady of Civil Rights
Rosa Parks (1913-2005): It might seem alien to you today, but in 1950’s America, discrimination was protected and enforced by the …
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Biographies for Kids
Biographies of people who have shaped our world
Biographies of people who made a difference and shaped our world. Short profiles for children on men and women who changed our world with path breaking ideas and actions. Personalities include statesmen, leaders, political thinkers, inventors, scientists, artists, writers, actors, sports persons and achievers.
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Michael Farday: The Self-Educated Inventor
Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867) Is it possible to become one of the most influential scientists in history without a formal …
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Buckminster Fuller: A Scholar, a Scientist and an Inventor
Buckminster Fuller (1895 – 1983): Imagine if you were a scientist, working in the freezing South Pole. You would be staying in a …
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Ada Lovelace, The Mother of Computing
Ada Lovelace (1815-1852): When you use your device, remember that Ada Lovelace was the first person to write a computer program. …
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B.R. Ambedkar: Father of the Indian Constitution
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891 – 1956): The slogan “Jai Bhim” is a salute to the man who spent his life fighting for the …
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Emmeline Pankhurst: Leading the battle for Women's right to vote
Emmeline Pankhurst (1858 - 1928): It was a little over 100 years ago that women were first allowed to vote in the United Kingdom …
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Confucius: The philosopher-teacher who taught kings how to govern
Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC): When the world thinks of traditional Chinese philosophy, they think of Confucius. He was the …
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Subhas Chandra Bose: The first man to set up a government of free India
Subhas Chandra Bose (1867 to 1945): Can the enemy of your enemy be your friend? Would you ask your enemy’s enemy for help even if …
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Nikola Tesla – Unsung Prophet of Electrical Age
If you ask anyone or check up in the encyclopaedia, who invented the radio or X-rays, chances are you will never come across the …
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Charlie Chaplin
All of us are very familiar with the mustachioed Little Tramp with the bowler hat and cane _ Charlie Chaplin. But behind this …
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Rabindranath Tagore
Mystic, painter and Nobel laureate for literature, Rabindranath Tagore was a prolific writer (3,000 poems, 2,000 songs, 8 novels, …
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Jacques-Yves Cousteau
If there is one person who single-handedly fascinated millions of landlocked viewers to venture underwater into the unknown, …
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