Stories of our Ancestors
Throughout history there have been wild and wonderful people. They’re the ones who changed their time and brought about our future. These portraits and bios are a quick take on what they did and who they were.
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- Heinrich von KleistHeinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) was a poet, dramatist, novelist, and a short story writer. He was the first of the great 19th-century German dramatists and lived in the Kingdom of …
- Casimir DelavigneCasimir Delavigne (1793–1843) was the most talented of the dramatists, filling the gap between neoclassical tragedy and romantic drama, Delavigne first achieved popularity in 1819 with his play with Les …
- Cabeza de VacaÁlvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488-1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World. In 1527 he survived Narváez expedition and spent eight years traveling across what is now the …
- Vladimir LeninVladimir Lenin, (1870-1924) born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov. He was a Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars of the Soviet Union and became a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist. …
- Robert SoutheyRobert Southey (1774-1843) was an English poet of the Romantic school, and Poet Laureate from 1813. Southey and Lake Poets, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge began as a radical …