Pericles was a prominent and influential Greek statesman, orator and general of Athens during the Golden Age, specifically the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fun facts about Pericles. 1. Pericles…
30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Dmitri Mendeleev
Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev was a Russian chemist and inventor. He formulated the Periodic Law, created a farsighted version of the periodic table of elements, and used it to correct the properties of some already discovered elements and also to predict the properties of eight elements yet to be discovered. Take a look below for 30…
30 Fun And Interesting Facts About Edward Snowden
Edward Joseph Snowden is an American computer professional, former Central Intelligence Agency employee, and former contractor for the United States government who copied and leaked classified information from the National Security Agency in 2013 without authorization. Take a look below for 30 more fun and interesting facts about Edward Snowden. 1. His disclosures revealed numerous…
30 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Paul Revere
Paul Revere was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the American Revolution. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775, to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Take…
26 Interesting And Awesome Facts About Thucydides
Thucydides was an Athenian historian and general. His History of the Peloponnesian War recounts the fifth-century BC war between Sparta and Athens until the year 411 BC. Thucydides has been dubbed the father of “scientific history” by those who accept his claims to have applied strict standards of impartiality and evidence-gathering and analysis of cause…
26 Fun And Interesting Facts About Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He wrote three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics, and the epic Aeneid. Take a look below for 26 more fun and interesting facts about Virgil. 1. A number of minor poems, collected in the Appendix Vergiliana,…
30 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Raphael
Raphael Sanzio de Urbino was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fascinating facts about Raphael. 1. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo…
30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Hernan Cortes
Hernan Cortes was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought later portions of what is now mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Take a look below for 30 more awesome and interesting facts about Hernan Cortes….
30 Interesting And Fun Facts About Frank Sinatra
Francis Albert Sinatra was an American singer, actor and producer who was one of the most popular and influential musical artists of the 20th century. He is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, having sold more than 150 million records worldwide. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fun facts…
30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Guglielmo Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering work on long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi’s law and a radio telegraph system. He’s credited as the inventor of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand Braun, “in recognition of their…