 Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci (full name Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci) was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, a small village near Florence. He was a famous Italian architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician, and painter.
Biography and Career :
Leonardo became the apprentice of a Florentine master, Andrea del Verrocchio.
His first work is two... |
 Eminem Eminem (real name Marshall Bruce Mathers III) was born on October 17, 1972 in St. Joseph, Missouri, U.S. His mother, Debbie Mathers was eighteen at the time of his birth and his father's age was unkown. He is an Oscar and multiple Grammy Award winning rapper, record producer, and actor.
Biography and Career :
Debbie and Marshall Bruce Mathers II, Eminem's father, were having hard times... |
 Paris Paris is France's capital and largest city, and a leading cultural, business, and political center of Europe. Nicknamed "The City of Light" (la Ville Lumière) since the 19th century, Paris also has a reputation as a "romantic" city. Paris is also capital of France's Île-de-France région and one of eight départements in that region, whose territory encompasses Paris and its suburbs.
Economy... |
 St Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city located in northwestern Russia on the delta of the river Neva at the east end of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. It is informally known as Питер (Piter) and was formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd... |
 The Norman Conquest by Monique Barb -
The native people of Britain were repeatedly attacked and their land invaded by warriors and settlers from Europe. But the Norman Conquest in 1066 was to be the last invasion from Europe.
The Norman invasion did not come as a surprise to the English, for King Harold who had taken the throne on the death of Edward the Confessor had in fact pledged his support to Duke... |
 Jessica Biel Jessica Biel ( full name Jessica Claire Biel) was born on March 3, 1982 in Ely, Minnesota and she is an American actress, best known for her role as Mary Camden on the drama series 7th Heaven and her roles in feature films, such as The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Biography and Career :
Jessica Biel was born to Jonathan Edward Biel and Kimberly Conroe; the family is of German, French, Irish,... |
 Keira Knightley Keira Knightley (full name Keira Christina Knightley) was born on March 22, 1983 in Teddington, London, England, UK to actor father Will Knightley and actor/author mother Sharman MacDonald. Keira Knightley Height : 5'7"/170 cm.
Biography and Career :
Keira Knightley was introduced to acting when she was 11 years old; with a role in A Village Affair.
Keira Knightley has an older brother,... |
 Sarajevo Sarajevo is the capital and largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Sarajevo's population is estimated at around 600,000.
Sarajevo is considered one of the most important cities in the Balkans and has had a long and rich history ever since it was founded by the Ottomans in 1461.
It was the site of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, which sparked World War I; more recently... |
 Charisma Carpenter Charisma Carpenter (full name Charisma Lee Carpenter) was born on July 23, 1970 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. She is an American actress of Mexican and Cherokee descent.
Biography and Career :
At the young age of 5, Charisma Carpenter was already studying classical ballet.
Although Charisma Carpenter enjoyed living in Los Vegas, her parents decided to move to Mexico when she was 15 years... |
 Gabrielle Richens Gabrielle Richens was born on September 14, 1974 in Kent, England, UK. She is a television personality, model and actress.
Biography and Career :
Her career as a model started at 15 years old when she signed a contract with Elite Modeling Agency. She was seen in magazines like Ralph, The Star, Ray Martin, CLEO Magazine, New Idea, Inside Sport Magazine and naked in Playboy and Black+White.... |
 Heath Ledger Heath Ledger was born on April 4, 1979 in Perth, Western Australia. He is a famous Australian actor.
Biography and career :
He studied at the Guildford Grammar, which is a private all-boys school. Sally and Kim are his parents' names. In 1990 he was a player of Kalamunda Field Hockey team back. At sixteen years old he began his acting career.
In 1996 he made his debut in "Blackrock".... |
 Remy Ma Remy Ma (Reminisce K. Smith) was born on Friday, May 30, 1980 and is a famous rapper.General appearance:- 5' 3" (160 cm) height, brown - dark eyes and black hair.Being born on 05/30 and Remy is a gemini and has an average body.Remy dated Juelz Santana.Remy is also known as: Remy K.... |
 Joy Bryant Joy Bryant is a famous actress who was born on October 19, 1976 in New York, USA. She is probably best-known for her Hollywood Film Award and for Young-Hollywood Award. Some of the most important films of her career are: Get Rich or Die Tryin’, Three Way, Showtime, The Skeleton Key and many others.
Her mother gave hir birth when she was only 15 years old.
She was discovered by a modeling... |
 Susan Blakely Susan Blakely was born on September 7, 1952 in Frankfurt/Main, Germany. She is a former fashion model and actress.
Biography and Career :
She is the daughter of a career Army officer, Blakely. Susan Blakely was a fashion model and came to Hollywood in the 70's. There she started an acting career. Her first important role was in 'The Towering Inferno'. She received the year's Golden Globe... |
 Anita Colby Anita Colby (birth name Anita Counihan) was born on August 5, 1914 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. She was a model and actress.
Biography and Career :
Her father was Bud Counihan, cartoonist and a legendary figure in New York in the artists and newsmen world. As a fashion model she was the best paid and appeared in many commercials especially for cigarettes. In 1935 she moved to... |
 The Strange Function of the Picture in Oscar Wilde's Novel : The Picture of Dorian Gray by Herminne Tonita -
Considered by the critics of the time to be an illustration of his aesthetic views and a celebration of vice, Oscar Wilde's only novel " The Picture of Dorian Gray " surprises the modern reader because of his moral ending and obvious plea against a Parnasian or Epicurean way of life. The novel builds on popular psychological melodrama and the pursuit of hedonism... |
 Robinson Crusoe vs Lord of The Flies by Herminne Tonita -
When we read "Robinson Crusoe" by Daniel Defoe and " Lord of the Flies" by William Golding, we come to notice that the latter novel, written in the XX th century, appears as a reversed "Robinson Crusoe", as the children, who find themselves on the dessert island destroy civilisation, do not continue it.
Both novels present the life of persons living on dessert islands,... |
 Christopher Walken Christopher Walken (birth name Ronald Walken) was born on March 31, 1943 in Queens, New York, USA. He is a famous American actor.
Biography and Career :
One of the three children in his family, he was the image of calendar when he was only 14 months old. Later on, when he was 10, he started taking dancing classes and he showed up in radio shows and in the sitcom "The Wonderful film Action".... |
 The Imaginative Pressure In The Great Gatsby by Cristina Nuta -
The real subject of the novel is the opportunity wealth provides for the realization of the Good Life and the necessity for what Fitzgerald calls 'a heightened sensitivity to the promises of life' if people are to imagine the Good Life clearly enough to understand what they have to opportunity to achieve. But the really convincing evidence of the imaginative pressure under... |
 The Symbolism Of Houses In The Great Gatsby by Cristina Nuta -
We can notice the wonderful, unobstrusive skill with which Fitzgerald uses realistic detail symbolically. Houses in The Great Gatsby are much richer in meaning than the book’s more obvious symbols, as is perhaps most evident in the way the house in Louisville where Gatsby wooes Daisy is charged for us with Gatsby’s feelings. Houses are specially significant in the book for... |
 The Norman Conquest of England by Herminne Tonita -
William the Conqueror had governed England and Normandy by travelling from one place to another to make sure his authority was accepted. The king's household was the government and it was always on the move. Kings were crowned in Westminster, but they kept their treasuries in Winchester. When their kingdom grew up, they sent nobles and knights to act as sheriffs. But the... |
 The importance of time and place in Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Cristina Nuta -
Thomas Hardy's novel, 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', is a network of comings and goings. But even though each step that its characters choose is along real roads, between houses, villages and towns which are identifiable in contemporary Britain, the names these bear are imaginary. In 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', the characters and setting mirror each other: Tess moves from a... |
 Limitations in The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James by Cristina Nuta -
Henry James'The Portrait of a Lady' is a novel about life-choices. It is a meditation on the theme of marriage and whether there is life outside of marriage. The protagonist, Isabel Archer, sets out to find out and ends up throwing her life away on the first person she meets outside her sheltered world. Isabel chooses to marry someone she doesn't understand, because he... |
 Strengths of the multiple points of view in The Portrait of a Lady by Cristina Nuta -
The Portrait of a Lady is one of the greatest novels of modern literature, written by Henry James, and usually regarded as a major achievement of its author's early period of fiction writing. In the book, Henry James demonstrates that he has learnt well from two Europeans masters of the novel: George Eliot and Turgenef.
The first one teaches him the importance of fighting... |
