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The man known as the storm child of the Bakumatsu era—Sakamoto Ryoma. He brokered the Satsuma-Choshu Alliance, helped bring about the Restoration of Imperial...

Did the sun shine even at night? Louis XIV of France—known as the Sun King—shone brilliantly in the sky of 17th-century Europe. Crowned at the age of just fo...

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...

In a corner of ancient Athens, there walked a strange man. A philosopher who preached the wisdom of knowing one’s own ignorance, who led others toward truth ...

His life read like a hardcover novel steeped in the scent of whiskey and cigarettes. Ernest Miller Hemingway.Born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois, he blazed th...

Can a young girl’s love bloom even in the midst of war? Anne Frank quietly asks us that question. Her life lasted only fifteen years.Yet her words transcend ...

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 swir...

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 ...

Martin Luther was a man who staked his life on the Word of God.He challenged the papacy, ignited the Protestant Reformation, and reshaped the very form of Ch...

William Shakespeare.A man who lived between poetry and drama, and captured the human heart between mask and truth. Think of Romeo and Juliet, or Hamlet.In hi...

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 danci...

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...