Helen Keller was an author, activist, and speaker who was born on June 27, 1880 in a small town in Alabama, USA. She was born healthy, but at 19 months old, she had a brain congestion that left her blind, deaf, and unable to speak. Little Helen independently learned to communicate with her family and thus be able … Read more
As a precursor event of the French Revolution and the emancipation of America, the independence of the United States was one of the transcendental events of the transition to the Contemporary Age. In this sense, few characters deserve the qualification of “historical figure” as much as George Washington, head of the military campaigns of the War … Read more
Theodor Seuss Geisel was born on March 2, 1904, in Springfield, Massachusetts. His father owned a brewery until the start of Prohibition in the 1920s when the buying and selling of alcohol was made illegal. Geisel ‘s father then took a job superintendent of city parks, which included the local zoo. There, young Theodor spent many days drawing the animals and eventually developed … Read more
(Marysville, Missouri, 1888 – Forest Hills, New York, 1955) American writer, one of the pioneers in the genre of public relations, sales and self-help books. Paradigm of the writer who accumulates numerous experiences outside the literary field to later turn them into a book, he grew up on his parents’ farm and worked in the fields … Read more
(Kung Fu-Tse; Lu, present-day Shantung, China, h. 551 – 479 BC) Chinese thinker. Coming from a ruined noble family, throughout his life he alternated periods in which he worked as a teacher with others in which he served as an official of the small state of Lu, in the northeast of China, during the time of … Read more
CS Lewis was born on November 29, 1898, in Belfast , Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. He is the son of Florence Augusta, daughter of an Anglican priest, and Albert James Lewis, a lawyer. As a child he was fond of reading, especially fantasy stories. In 1908, he entered the Wynyard School, located in Watford, although he had previously … Read more
Over the centuries, the image of the Buddha has been depicted so many times that even in the West his effigy is as familiar as any other art object. We usually see him sitting on his legs in a meditative attitude, with a more or less protruding protuberance on the top of his skull and a … Read more
(San Francisco, 1941 – Hong Kong, 1973) American martial arts fighter and actor. A true myth of martial arts cinema, Bruce Lee is one of the icons of popular culture of the last third of the 20th century. As the promoter of a unique style of hand-to-hand fighting, Jet Kune Do, Lee favored a business of international … Read more
In 1960, when he was only fifteen years old, Bob Marley formed a vocal group, whose members also included Peter Tosh, another important figure in the genre. In 1962, Jimmy Cliff (another future big star) introduced Bob Marley to a producer and they recorded his first album, Judge Not . Under the name of The Wailing Wailers they recorded more than … Read more
(Boston, 1706 – Philadelphia, 1790) American politician, scientist and inventor. A student of electricity and everything that attracted his interest, inventor of the lightning rod and other useful devices, honest and efficient public figure and outstanding architect of the independence of the United States, Benjamin Franklin was perhaps the most beloved character of his time in … Read more