Bertha Sophie Felicitas Freifrau von Suttner (Baroness Bertha von Suttner), (9 June 1843 in Prague, [then in Austrian Empire] - 21 June 1914 in Vienna, [then in Austria-Hungary]), born as Gräfin (Countess) Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, was an Austrian novelist, radical pacifist, and was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Suttner was the daughter of an impoverished Austrian field marshal and governess to the wealthy Suttner family from 1873. She became engaged to engineer and nov

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Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d'Arc or Jeanne la Pucelle,[1] (6 January 1412 – 30 May 1431)[2] is a national heroine of France and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She stated that she received visions from God, through which she helped inspire Charles VII's troops to retake most of his dynasty's former territories, which had been under English and Burgundian dominance during the Hundred Years' War. She had been sent to the siege of Orléans by the the

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Catherine II of Russia, called the Great (Russian: Екатерина II Великая or Yekaterina II Velikaya, 2 May 1729 — 6 November [O.S. 17 November] 1796), born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst) — sometimes referred to as an epitome of the "enlightened despot" — reigned as Empress of Russia for more than three decades, from June 28, 1762 until her death. Early life

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Works There is only one known phrase by Rembrandt about what he sought to achieve through his art: the greatest and most natural movement, translated from die meeste ende di naetuereelste beweechgelickheijt. This was found in a letter written to a patron. Whether he meant movement of the objects in his paintings or of the viewer's emotions or both is still unclear and subject to debate among art historians. In all, Rembrandt produced over 600 paintings, 300 etchings, and 2,000 drawings. He w

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Senator John McCain was born in Coco Solo in the U.S controlled Panama Canal Zone. Both his father and grandfather were prominent U.S. Navy admirals (John S. McCain, Jr. and John S. McCain, Sr.). He attended Episcopal High School and graduated in 1954. That fall, McCain, like his father and grandfather, entered the United States Naval Academy. He has admitted that he disliked the life of a midshipman. Accordingly, McCain was a lackluster student and received many demerits. He graduated in 1958,

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Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaiʻi (September 2, 1838 – November 11, 1917), originally named Lydia Kamakaʻeha, also known as Lydia Kamakaʻeha Paki, with the chosen royal name of Liliʻuokalani, and later named Lydia K. Dominis, was the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi. On September 16, 1862, she married John Owen Dominis, who became Governor of Oʻahu and Maui. They had no children; Liliʻuokalani's heiress for several ye

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Biography The surname Sanzio derives from the latinization of the Italian, Santi, into Santius (also, when signing solely using his baptismal name, "Raphael"). His father, Santi Giovanni, was also a painter in the court of Urbino. In 1491 his mother Màgia died and his father then died on 1 August 1494. Thus orphaned at eleven, Raffaello was entrusted to his uncle Bartolomeo, a priest. He had already shown talent, as recounted by his contemporary Giorgio Vasari - he tells that since childhood

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John Kerry was born in the west wing of Fitzsimons Army Hospital in Aurora, Colorado outside Denver[1], where his father, Richard Kerry, a World War II Army Air Corps test pilot, had been undergoing treatment for tuberculosis[2]. Kerry's family returned to their home state of Massachusetts two months after his birth. Family background Kerry is the second child of Richard John Kerry and Rosemary Forbes Kerry. He has three siblings: Margery (1941), Diana (1947) and Cameron (1950). His mother w

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The Empress Dowager Cixi (Chinese: 慈禧太后; pinyin: Cíxǐ Tàιhòu; Wade-Giles: Tz'u-hsi) (November 29, 1835 –November 15, 1908), popularly known in China as the Western Empress Dowager (西太后), and officially known posthumously as Empress Xiaoqin Xian (孝欽顯皇后), was a powerful and charismatic figure who was the de facto ruler of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, ruling over China for most of the

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Career Early life Pablo Ruiz Picasso was born in Málaga, Spain, the first child of José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. His full name is Pablo Diego José Santiago Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Crispín Crispiniano de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz Picasso. Picasso's father was José Ruiz y Blasco, a painter whose specialty was the naturalistic depiction of birds, and who for most of his life was also a professor of art at the School of Fine Arts and

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