18th Century– tax –

Benjamin Franklin.Born in 1706 in Boston to a candlemaker’s bustling household, he was the fifteenth of seventeen children. He helped draft the Declaration o...

Just saying his name seems to make the air itself lift and shimmer.Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He began composing at the age of five and swept across Europe as ...

In 1769, Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. Rising from the chaos of the French Revolution, he would go on to redraw the map...