Born Israel Brodsky to an Eastern European immigrant family in Brooklyn, New York , as a child he befriended a newly arrived neighbor, Sid Tepper . Their mutual interest in music led to a successful musical collaboration that lasted more than twenty-five years....

Hilary Hinton Ziglar -better known as Zig Ziglar- was an  internationally famous salesman, speaker, author  and president of the Zig Ziglar Corporation who  was born on November 6, 1926  in Cofee, Alabama. His parents,  John Silas Ziglar , nicknamed «the Judge»,...

(Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill; Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire, 1874 – London, 1965) British politician especially remembered for his tenure as Prime Minister (1940-45) during World War II: with his «blood, sweat and tears» motto, managed to raise the...

Despite the efforts of his biographers, a background of legend is still hovering over the figure of Walt Disney (1901-1966). A repeated rumor assures that Disney was a European emigrant, probably Spanish, who arrived in the United States and who, later, for fear of...

(François-Marie Arouet; Paris, 1694 – 1778) French writer. Dominant intellectual figure of his century and one of the main thinkers of the Enlightenment, he left a heterogeneous and uneven literary work, of which his stories and books of ideological controversy...

Vince Lombardi is one of the most special figures in the National Football League (NFL) , the most important American football league on the planet , which this year celebrates its 100th season . This man, the son of Italian immigrants born in Brooklyn, is remembered...

(Tupac Amaru Shakur; New York, 1971 -1996) American rapper, probably the most influential in the history of the genre. Murdered in his youth in circumstances that have not yet been clarified, his premature death cut short a rising career and helped elevate him to the...

Third President of the United States of America (Shadwell, Virginia, 1743 – Monticello, Virginia, 1826). Thomas Jefferson belonged to the aristocracy of great landowners in the South, a position he had fulfilled by becoming a lawyer. His intellectual concerns...

(Athens, 470 BC – id., 399 BC) Greek philosopher. Despite the fact that he did not leave any written work and there are few ideas that can be safely attributed to him, Socrates is a leading figure of ancient thought, to the point of being called...

Muslim mystic poet from Persia, whose full name is Jalal al-Din Rumi. Although he was born in Balkh (Korasan), his life was linked to the city of Iconium (now Konya), in Turkey. It was there that he took the name of Rumi, replacing his original Mohamed, in honor of...

(Kilton, Illinois, 1911 – Los Ángeles, 2004) Cuadragésimo presidente de los Estados Unidos de América (1981-1989). Tras una breve experiencia en la radio, fue actor profesional de cine, interviniendo en múltiples películas de Hollywood entre 1937 y 1964. Nunca...

(Boston, 1803-Concord, 1882) Poeta y filósofo estadounidense. Maestro por Harvard y pastor unitario (1829), renunció al sacerdocio en 1832, tras perder a su esposa, aunque conservó el espíritu de su secta, que negaba la Trinidad. En Europa conoció a Samuel Taylor...

(Dublin, 1854 – Paris, 1900) British writer. Son of the surgeon William Wills-Wilde and the writer Joana Elgee, Oscar Wilde had a quiet and uneventful childhood. He studied at the Portora Royal School in Euniskillen, at Trinity College in Dublin and, later, at...

(Oprah Gail Winfrey; Kosciusko, Mississippi, 1954) American businesswoman and television presenter who maintained unusual audience levels for twenty-five years with her talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show (1986-2011). After this stage, she founded her own television...

(Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu; Skopje, present-day Macedonia, 1910 – Calcutta, 1997) A nationalized Indian Albanian nun who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. When Mother Teresa of Calcutta died in 1997, the Missionaries of Charity congregation already had more than...

(Michael Jeffrey Jordan; New York, 1963) American basketball player considered the best in the history of this sport. Certainly, since basketball was invented by an American gym teacher in the late 19th century. Until the 1980s, a prodigy comparable to this legendary...

Maya Angelou grew up as a girl who decided to stop talking after being raped. A small bird caged in her own silence. But, one day, the bird began to sing and spread its wings and, from that moment on, nothing could stop it. We wanted to pay a small tribute to this...

(Martin Luther King Jr.; Atlanta, 1929 – Memphis, 1968) American Baptist pastor, defender of civil rights. Since 1955, the long struggle of black Americans to achieve full rights has seen an acceleration in whose leadership the young pastor Martin Luther King...

(Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Florida, USA, 1835 – Redding, id., 1910) American writer. A tireless adventurer, he found in his own life the inspiration for his literary works. He grew up in Hannibal, a small riverside town on the Mississippi. At the age of twelve...

Mark Cuban (July 31, 1958) was a businessman, investor, and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA basketball team. In addition, he is the owner of Landmark Theaters, and Magnolia Pictures and president of the HDTV cable network AXS TV. Cuban was born in Pittsburgh,...

(Norma Jean Mortenson; Los Angeles, 1926 – id., 1962) American actress. She had a difficult childhood, which was spent in various orphanages. At the age of twenty, Marilyn Monroe began to work as a model and, after some roles in various minor films, in 1950...

(Grantham, United Kingdom, 1925 – London, 2013) British politician, Prime Minister from 1979 to 1990. Margaret Hilda Roberts studied chemical sciences at the University of Oxford and worked for four years as a chemical researcher. In 1951 she married Denis...

(Malcolm Little; Omaha, Nebraska, 1925 – New York, 1965) Revolutionary leader of the North American black minority. He was the son of a Protestant pastor and a mulatto woman, born from the rape of a black woman by a white man; During his childhood, he suffered...

(George Gordon; London, Great Britain, 1788 – Missolonghi, now Greece, 1824) British poet who is among the most emblematic representatives of European romanticism. Belonging to a family of the aristocracy of his country, he lost his father at the age of...

(Lao Tse or Lao-Tse; Northern China, around the 6th – 4th centuries BC) Chinese thinker, creator of Taoism. Known only by legend, the time in which he lived is disputed and there are even those who doubt the real existence of this character with an unknown name,...

Julia Carolyn McWilliams , born August 15, 1912, in Pasadena, California, was an American foodie, author, and television personality noted for her promotion of traditional French cuisine, especially through her shows on public television. The daughter of a prosperous...

Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003) was a country, gospel, rock and roll, and rockabilly singer, guitarist, songwriter, and actor. He was born in Kingsland, Arkansas, United States. His family did not enjoy a good economic condition, therefore, from...

(Liverpool, 1940 – New York, 1980) British singer and musician, founder and leader of The Beatles, the legendary Liverpool quartet that dominated the music scene in the 1960s. During his time in The Beatles, John Lennon contributed to the band his creative...

Fascinating and contradictory character, John F. Kennedy is one of the most remembered American politicians of the second half of the 20th century. After becoming the first Catholic to become president of the United States, he promoted a policy of reforms aimed at...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

(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,...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

(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...

She was born on February 2, 1905 in Petrograd , Russia.A week before her twenty-first birthday, she left the Soviet Union, never to return. The communist regime expropriated her father’s business and killed her family.Ayn met director Cecil B. De Mille who gave...

Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4, 1929 in the Belgian city of Brussels, descendant of a family of the Dutch aristocracy, the Van Heemstra. Her grandfather was a baron very close to the Court. Her father was a banker named Joseph Victor Henry Ruston and her mother an...

Arnold Schwarzenegger was born on July 30, 1947 in Thal , a rural town near Graz , Austria. Family Son of the local police chief, Gustav Schwarzenegger, and Aurelia Jadrny. Gustav served in World War II after joining the Nazi Party in 1938.Raised in a humble Catholic...

Western philosophy is based on the work of the three great ancient Greek philosophers: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Despite the unique relationship that united them (Socrates was the teacher of Plato, who in turn was the teacher of Aristotle), the orientation of his...

Angela Anaïs Juana Antolina Rosa Edelmira Nin y Culmell, known as Anaïs Nin, was a diarist, writer, writer, and essayist of both brief tales and erotica. These Anaïs Nin quotes uncover moving experiences on self-disclosure, connections, travel, and the sky is the...

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There are individuals who were recorded in the history of humanity, due to their many contributions. And speaking of this topic we have to mention the phrases of Karl Marx , a very outstanding philosopher. In addition, you can easily add the phrases of Karl Marx to...

There are movies that set the standard, because they manage to get into the minds and hearts of people, despite the passing of the years. For this reason we want to offer you the phrases of El Diario de Noa , a truly unique romance and drama film. In addition, you can...