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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- Jim BowieJim Bowie, born James Bowie (1796-1836) was an American pioneer and trader. He also smuggled slaves to freedom. As a soldier, Bowie played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution. …
- Heinrich HertzHeinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857-1894) was a German physicist. He was the first to prove the existence of the electromagnetic waves. The waves were predicted in James Clerk Maxwell’s equations of …
- Jules & Edmond de GoncourtBrothers Jules ((1830-1896) & Edmond (1822-1896) de Goncourt were the aristocrats of modern French literature and publishing. They were born to nobility, cultivated, neurotic and extremely arrogant. Seldom apart their …
- Gustave FlaubertGustave Flaubert (1821-1880) was a French novelist. He was a leader of the literary realism movement in France. Flaubert helped install the realist school into French literature. He is best …
- Antonie van LeeuwenhoekAntonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was a Dutch microbiologist and microscopist in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. Know as the Father of Microbiology, Leeuwenhoek used his self-made lenses …