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30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Voltaire

Francois Marie Arouet, also known as Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state. Take a look below for 30 more awesome…

30 Interesting And Awesome Facts About Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. A Democrat, he won a record four presidential elections and became a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century. Take a look below for 30…

30 Interesting And Fun Facts About George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair, better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic. His work is marked by lucid prose, awareness of social injustice, opposition to totalitarianism, and outspoken support of democratic socialism. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fun facts about George Orwell. 1. Orwell…

30 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Anne Frank

Annelies Marie “Anne” Frank was a German born diarist. One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fascinating…

30 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Marco Polo

Marco Polo was an Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, born in the Republic of Venice. His travels are recorded in Livres des merveilles du monde, a book that described to Europeans the wealth and great size of China, its capital Peking and other Asian cities and countries. Take a look below for 30 more fascinating…

30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Joan Of Arc

Joan of Arc, nicknamed The Maid of Orleans, is considered a heroine of France for her role during the Lancastrian phase of the Hundred Years’ War and was canonized as a Roman Catholic saint. Take a look below for 30 more awesome and interesting facts about Joan of Arc. 1. She was born to Jacques…

30 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. Take a look below for 30 more fascinating and interesting facts about Sigmund Freud. 1. Freud was born to Galician Jewish parents in the Moravian town of Freiberg, in the…

30 Interesting And Fun Facts About Johannes Kepler

Johannes Kepler was a German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer. He’s a key figure in the 17th century Scientific Revolution and is best known for his laws of planetary motion, based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonices Mundi and Epitome of Copernican Astronomy. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fun facts about Johannes…

30 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Willem van Gogh was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art. In just over a decade, he crated about 2,100 artworks, including around 860 oil paintings, most of them in the last two years of his life. Take a look below for…

30 Interesting And Awesome Facts About Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing was an English computer scientist, mathematician, logician, crpytanalyst, philosopher and theoretical biologist. Turing was highly influential in the development of theoretical computer science, providing a formalization of the concepts of algorithm and computation with the Turing machine, which can be considered as an early model of a general purpose computer. Take a…