… was the 16th president of the United States. He is one of the best greatest men in American history. He was a humane, farsighted statesman in his lifetime, but when he died he became a legend and folk hero. Abraham Lincoln ‘s ancestry on his father’…

… Gracchus, (163-133 BC), was brought up under special care of his mother, Cornelia, daughter of Scipio Africanus the Elder. In 146 BC he took part in the capture and destruction of Carthage, on which occasion he is said to have been the first Roman…

… 6,1868 in Tscarskoe Selo, Russia. Nicholas was a well-educated child. He was also an intelligent man. His father was very strict so he spent most of his childhood in seclusion of the outside world. Czar was an unattractive man with brown hair and blue…

… I first saw him on TV. Some reasons for why he is my idol are: he is a very good basketball player, he is a very down-to-earth person, and he is a very fashionable person. Michael Jordan has been an inspiration to me and that is why he is my favorite…

… Millennium Queen of Roscommon Contest I was so proud and delighted. All sorts of things were running through my head. I was quite nervous about meeting the other girls and absolutely petrified about standing on stage in front of hundreds…

… Scotland. In 1848 the family came to America, settling at Allegheny, Pa. (now part of Pittsburgh). At twelve years old Carnegie got his first job as a bobbin boy in a cotton mill. He then moved on to work as a telegraph messenger for a railroad…

… millions of people all over the world. In China, Buddhist monks, known as the Shaolin, originally developed this art. They invented it to help train themselves physically and mentally. It taught people self-defense, to be disciplined and strong-minded,…

… days of slavery, and to present day America – prejudice and stereotypes have played a giant role in our history. So what is it that makes this situation any different? This problem has been debated for many years, and the end is not in sight. So it…

… 1968) was born Michael Luther King, Jr., but later had his name changed to Martin. His grandfather began the family's long tenure as pastors of the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, serving from 1914 to 1931; his father has served from then until the…

… house of Woolsthorpe, near Grantham in Lincolnshire, England. The calendar of his time would say that he was born on Christmas day 1642. In the present calendar he was born January 4, 1643. Isaac Newton came from a family of farmers but never knew…