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The Brothers Grimm. When we hear their name, what first comes to mind is likely a delightful collection of fairy tales, adorned with colorful illustrations. Yet Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm—who also left an immense legacy as linguists—were qu...

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. The man who opened India's road to independence from the British Empire with weaponless resistance, holding up nonviolence and truth. Called "Mahatma" — great soul — his name is still known around the world as...

Osamu Dazai. No Longer Human, The Setting Sun, Run, Melos! —His works overflow with the fragility of human weakness, with a delicacy that seems barely alive. It is as if each of his loves left behind a record of a heart sl...

Among the monarchs of English history, few have stirred the imagination quite like her. Elizabeth I. Known as the “Virgin Queen,” she led 16th-century England into a golden age. She defeated the Spanish Armada, saw the flowering of Shake...

The mist along the Loire River of France would creep slowly across the fields at dawn, before dissolving into the morning light.In the fifteenth century, one young girl gazed upon that same landscape. Joan of Arc. Later, people would cal...

Dante Alighieri.A towering figure who symbolizes medieval European literature and stands among the greatest in the history of world letters. The long narrative poem that immortalized his name, The Divine Comedy, is a grand tale of a jour...

In the city of Florence, where light and shadow of the Renaissance intertwined,a young boy once looked up at the sky as he walked the cobblestone streets — Michelangelo Buonarroti. He was a man who carved souls into marble, painted the b...

Did the sun continue to shine even through the night? King Louis XIV of France — the man known as the Sun King — illuminated the skies of seventeenth-century Europe with dazzling brilliance.He ascended the throne at the age of ...

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...

In the streets of Athens, there was a peculiar man. He spoke of the “wisdom of knowing nothing,”and through his probing questions, sought to uncover the truth.A philosopher whose unique method of dialogue would shape the minds of generat...

Around the turn of the 11th century, in the middle of the Heian period, poetry and love were woven into the fabric of daily life, like light and shadow dancing together. In this era, one female poet left her name in history through the p...