Georg Handel, the great composer of the Enlightenment. Mozart considered Handel the greatest master of choral art: he created a new genre in music - the English Oratorio. Probably, each of us heard the famous chorale “Hallelujah”, which has been...

George Washington, the first president of the United States. He is the founder of the United States as a single country. Today, the capital of the United States and many settlements, lakes, colleges, universities, streets ... the portrait of George...

Johann Goethe, founder of modern German literature Goethe for life also published scientific works on mineralogy, biology, comparative morphology, flora and fauna, anatomy, acoustics, optics. The Weimar edition of Goethe's works contains nearly one...

Wilhelm Leibniz, one of the founders of modern mathematical logic. Wilhelm Leibniz is an outstanding German philosopher, logician, physicist, linguist, diplomat. He created the first mechanical computer. He is called the German Plato, Aristotle and...

Michael Faraday, founder of the doctrine of the electromagnetic field If Michael Faraday were not in world history, we would not have computers, electricians, stainless steel, aluminum spoons and much more. Although he did not even have a secondary...

Sincere Christian founded a financial empire Subsequently, William started his own business, which grew into a powerful financial empire Colgate. There were ups and downs in his life, but he never forgot the promise made to God. It was William...

John Rockefeller, the richest man in recent history. Over the past few centuries there has been no richer man on earth than John Rockefeller. His fortune is estimated at more than 300 billion dollars. Today there is no one whose fortune could even...

John Pierpont Morgan, the legend of the banking world. It is difficult to list all the achievements of this unique person. Morgan, without a doubt, is the creator of the first financial empire in the United States. Also, John Pierpont Morgan was the...

Margaret Thatcher, the Iron Lady. She is the 71st Prime Minister of Great Britain, the first woman in this position, and the first woman to take up the post of Prime Minister of a European state. Her premiership was the longest in the 20th century....

The Wright brothers are the inventors of the aircraft. The Wright brothers' apparatus not only turned out to be able to fly into the air, but carried out the first controlled flight in history. This fateful event happened on December 17, 1903. A few...