Love in Letters– tax –

This article contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy. The author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina, and in his later years a religious thinker w...

Ludwig van Beethoven, the towering master of classical music. His Symphony No. 5 “Fate” and Symphony No. 9 “Choral” continue to resound as if they were common property of all humankind. Even as deafness consumed him, he carved sound out ...

He was called the Hero of the Late Tokugawa Era — Sakamoto Ryoma. He forged the Satsuma–Choshu Alliance, advanced the restoration of imperial rule,and became a driving force behind Japan’s transformation into a modern nati...

Benjamin Franklin. Born in 1706 in Boston, the fifteenth of seventeen children in the household of a humble candle maker,he grew up surrounded by noise, warmth, and light. As a statesman, he helped draft the Declaration of Independence.A...

Albert Einstein. The man who formulated the theory of relativity and is hailed as the greatest genius of the 20th century.But inside that brilliant mind swirled not only equations—it also held a passionate and tangled view of love. Born ...

Just saying his name seems to make the air lift, light and shimmering—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. He began composing at the age of five, a prodigy who dazzled all of Europe. The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute shine wi...