Jim 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. He was among the Americans who fought at the Battle of the Alamo.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DJHDRKZR
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Heinrich Hertz
Heinrich 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 electromagnetism. The unit of frequency, cycle per second, was named “hertz” in Hertz’s honor.Hertz T-shirt on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DKLX9ZGV
Jules & Edmond de Goncourt
Brothers 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 collaboration was so complete that there were rarely mentioned separately.Jules & Edmond de Goncourt T-shirts on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DN8LBHFV
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave 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 known for his masterpiece Madame Bovary.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5FFV7BX
Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich 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 Prussia of the Holy Roman Empire. His work was during the Romanticism literary movement. After serving in the Prussian army for seven year his life …
Casimir Delavigne
Casimir 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 Vêpres Sicilians. Inspired by the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, he wrote two impassioned poems. His “La Parisienne”, set to music by Daniel Auber, was …
Robert Southey
Robert 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 gradually shifted to conservative gaining respect for Britain and its institutions.Southey T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBGMTG7S
General Zaragoza
Cinco de Mayo is in remembrance of the battle at the city of Puebla Mexico. On May 5th 1862 young Mexican General Ignaciao Zaragoza faced down 6000 of the Napoleon III Zouaves. The Zouaves were an elite French fighting force with pristine uniforms and expensive equipment. Zaragoza had under his command only 4500 rag-tag men …
Alexander von Humboldt
Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer. He believed in science and Romantic philosophy. Humboldt travelled extensively in the Americas and wrote and published several volumes on his travels. He is considered both “the father of ecology” and “the father of environmentalism.”Alexander von Humboldt T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CZ6RLWKV
Gaetano Donizetti
Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (1797-1848) was an Italian composer, best known for 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, Donizetti was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century. He influenced Giuseppe Verdi.Gaetano Donizetti T-shirts on Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CXC2QF6L