Nelson Mandela, a symbol of hope He is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. In 2009, the UN General Assembly declared July 18 as Nelson Mandela’s Day. This was the first time in the organization’s history when World Day is named after one person....

George W. Bush, 43rd US President As the head of the country, Bush was remembered as a politician who could find a compromise. He was a supporter of tax cuts and a zealous fighter against terrorism. Bush also advocated for more active church...

The German mathematician, physicist, astronomer, surveyor Friedrich Gauss is considered one of the most influential mathematicians of all time, for which he was named king of mathematics....

Martin Luther King, US national hero. His whole short life is a story of struggle. As he once said, "By accepting power without resistance, we become his accomplices." And his whole life and martyrdom is a great example of the struggle against evil....

Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate. In 1912, during the election campaign, the president was assassinated: John Schrank shot at Roosevelt when he made a speech. The bullet hit the chest, first breaking through a metal...

Thomas Cook, father of organized tourism. In the nineteenth century, people traveled a little, most were limited to finding only one place throughout their lives. Organized tourism was a real revolution that forever changed the world. The founder of...

Edgar Allan Poe, founder of science fiction and detective fiction. Edgar Allan Poe - playwright, literary editor, critic, one of the leading representatives of American romanticism...

Johannes Kepler, the man who measured the sky.Kepler made discoveries in physics, mathematics, astronomy, mechanics, optics, introduced the concept of inertia into physics. He was the first 100 years before Newton to prove that the cause of the...

He formulated the first and second laws of thermodynamics, investigated that there is a lower limit of temperature “absolute zero”. William Thomson - author and inventor of nearly 70 patents...

James Watt, father of the industrial revolution Watt is a Scottish inventor, mechanic, creator of the universal double-acting steam engine. His name is called the unit of power - watts. The work of James Watt was the beginning of the industrial...