 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 angels ... Date added: 21 November '07 |
 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 durin ... Date added: 29 August '08 |
 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.
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P ... Date added: 23 December '07 |
 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 (Петрогр ... Date added: 21 April '06 |
 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 Willia ... Date added: 04 October '07 |
 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, Eng ... Date added: 13 June '08 |
 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, C ... Date added: 23 June '08 |
 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 Sarajev ... Date added: 10 July '06 |
 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 ol ... Date added: 12 May '08 |
 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. Sh ... Date added: 01 March '08 |
 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". Then ... Date added: 24 October '07 |
 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. Smith. ... Date added: 12 May '08 |
Joy Bryant Joy Bryant was born on Tuesday, October 19, 1976 and she is a famous actress.General appearance:- 5' 9" (175 cm) height.Being born on Oct 19, Joy is a Libra.Joy dated Eghosa Ohan and amongst other amorous encounters was Dave Pope. ... Date added: 13 May '08 |
 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 Awa ... Date added: 07 January '07 |
 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 Ho ... Date added: 16 January '07 |
 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 cultivated ... Date added: 30 January '07 |
 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, the ... Date added: 08 February '07 |
 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". ... Date added: 02 December '07 |
 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 wh ... Date added: 15 February '07 |
 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 th ... Date added: 15 February '07 |
 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 sy ... Date added: 22 February '07 |
 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 wo ... Date added: 27 February '07 |
 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 fascin ... Date added: 27 February '07 |
 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 ... Date added: 27 February '07 |
 Maria Sansone Maria Sansone was born on February 26, 1981 in Erie, Pennsylvania, USA. She is the host of "The 9", an internet video show part of Yahoo! Entertainment.
Biography and Career :
She studied at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications and graduated in 2003. She started her career when she was very young, eleven years old, as the host of a sport show for children, "Down to ... Date added: 13 August '08 |
 Ananda Lewis Ananda Lewis (full name Sarasvati Ananda Lewis) was born on March 21, 1973 in San Diego, California, USA. She started her career as a model and became a television personality.
Biography and Career :
When she was only 13 years old she became a member of the voluntary Head Start agency and was helping poor children. She attended the Howard University and the San Diego School of Creative and P ... Date added: 01 March '08 |
 Myth and Mysteries in the Waste Land by T S Eliot by Herminne Tonita -
Since T. S. Eliot published his first volume in 1917, his poetry has overcome the incomprehension or dislike of critics bound by 19th century literary conventions and won for him an authority such as no other poet in English has joined since Tennyson- an authority seconded by his prestige as a critic, publicist and playwright. Eliot restored the intellectual dignity of Engl ... Date added: 01 June '07 |
 Sallie Toussaint Sallie Toussaint was born on May 10, 1978 in Hartford, Connecticut, USA. She is a fashion model and an actress.
Biography and Career :
She was born in the United States and after a short period her family moved to Trinidad. Eventually they decided to return to USA. She attended the University of Connecticut, obtained a degree in journalism and was a great student. Some of the magazines in wh ... Date added: 20 August '07 |
 Adrien Brody Adrien Brody was born on April 14, 1973 in Woodhaven, Queens, New York, USA. He is a famous American actor.
Biography and Career :
Sylvia Plachy, a photojournalist, is his mother. Elliot Brody, his father, was a history teacher. Adrien attended the CUNY Queens College in Flushing, New York and the New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. His parents tr ... Date added: 14 September '07 |
 Dana Hamm Dana Hamm was born on August 31, 1979 in Sanford, North Carolina. She is a famous, international model.
Biography and Career :
Dana grew up in Sanford and her father was en entrepreneur. While being a child, she had a boyish behaviour as she liked fishind or riding her bike instead of playing with cute little Barbie dolls.
She did pretty well at Arts and Science during highschool and aft ... Date added: 21 September '07 |
 Life in Saxon Britain by Monique Barb -
The Saxon way of life was crude and simple compared with that of the Romans before them. Their settlements were villages rather than towns and for a long time the country was divided into a number of provinces or regional kingdoms. During the Roman period England had been one country with an excellent road system and a number of important towns. It took hundreds of years befor ... Date added: 03 October '07 |
 Vanessa McIntosh Vanessa McIntosh (full name Vanessa Layton McIntosh) is an English and international model.
Biography and Career :
Vanessa is half English and half Portugese. Her dark exotic looks helped this Latin lovely to launch a modelling career after she earned fame on Big Brother series 6 in the UK, at the age of only 19 years old. She entered into several modelling contracts after Big Brother and ... Date added: 03 October '07 |
 Holly Hunter Holly Hunter was born on March 20, 1958 in Conyers, Georgia, USA. She is a popular actress.
Biography and career :
When she was nine years old she began taking piano lessons. She studied at the Carnegie Mellon University and graduated with a degree in drama. In 1980 she decided it was time to move to New York in order to become an actress.
After two years she was seen in "Crimes of the He ... Date added: 25 October '07 |
 Donny Deutsch Donny Deutsch (full name Donald Jay "Donny" Deutsch) was born on November 22, 1957 in Queens, New York, United States. He is the chairman of Deutsch, Inc. and host of the CNBC talk show The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch.
Biography and Career :
Donny Deutsch biography is not ready yet. Our editors are still gathering interesting information and if you want to contribute feel free to send any de ... Date added: 07 December '07 |
 Dolores O'Riordan Dolores O'Riordan (full name Dolores Mary Eileen O'Riordan) was born on September 6, 1971 in Limerick, Ireland. She is a singer and songwriter. She led The Cranberries band to worldwide success and fame for thirteen years before the band took a hiatus in 2003.
Biography and Career :
Dolores O'Riordan biography is not ready yet. Our editors are still gathering interesting information and if y ... Date added: 24 October '07 |
 Catherine Zeta-Jones Catherine Zeta Jones was born on September 25, 1969 in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. She is a famous Welsh actress.
Biography and Career :
From the age of 4, Catherine Zeta Jones wanted to entertain, to be the centre of attention. She'd prance around using the spout of her grandma's kettle as a microphone.
Very soon, she was onstage, performing with an amateur troupe or ... Date added: 12 May '08 |
 Jodie Foster Jodie Foster (real name Nee Alicia Christian Foster) was born on November 19, 1962 in Los Angeles, California and is a great actress. Besides this she is a talented director and producer.
Biography and Career :
Jodie Foster started her career at the age of 2. She had attended the Yale University and managed to graduate magna cum laude. In 1997 she received the honorary Doctorate from them.
... Date added: 13 December '07 |
 Johnny Depp Johnny Depp was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro, Kentucky, USA. He is a very popular and one of the most valuable actors from Hollywood.
Biography and Career :
He was born in Owensboro but most of his childhood took place in Florida.
John Christopher Depp and Elizabeth "Betty" Sue Wells, his parents divorced when Johnny was 15 years old. His career in movies started in 1984 when he was ad ... Date added: 15 December '07 |
 Jorge Perez Jorge Perez was born in 1950 in Argentina. He is the chairman and majority owner of The Related Group of Florida - one of the largest real estate developers in the United States, which specializes in the construction of high-rise condos.
Biography and Career :
After his birth his family moved in Colombia where they started a pharmaceutical business. When he grew up he wasn't very pleased abo ... Date added: 16 December '07 |
 Joss Stone Joss Stone (birth name Joscelyn Eve Stoker) was born on April 11, 1987 in the pastoral country of Dover, England. She is a popular singer.
Biography and Career :
She is the third of the four children of Richard and Wendy Stoker. Joss grew up in Ashill, Devon until she became a teenager and in this little village she bought her first album, one with Aretha Franklin's Greatest Hits. After she ... Date added: 16 December '07 |
 Juliette Binoche Juliette Binoche was born on March 9, 1964 in Paris, France. She is a popular actress.
Biography and Career :
She had attended the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris. Then she started her acting career and thanks to her roles in "The English Patient" and "Chocolat". She won the Oscar Award and received nominations for the Golden Globes.
Her fans are numerous and they can't wai ... Date added: 18 December '07 |
 Kaley Cuoco Kaley Cuoco (birth name Kaley Christine Cuoco) was born on November 30, 1985 in Camarillo, California, USA. She is a talented young American actress. Now (2007) she lives in Ventura County, California with her family.
Biography and Career :
She started her career when she was just eight months old and almost all of her childhood was a trip from an audition to another. At the age of three she ... Date added: 19 December '07 |
 Kara Monaco Kara Monaco was born on February 26, 1983 in Lakeland, Florida, USA. She is an American model.
Biography and Career :
Before becoming a model she was a competitive gymnast. Then she was a swimwear and lingerie model and suddenly chance came, she was discovered by Playboy. In June 2005 she was chosen Playboy Playmate of the Month and one year later became Playboy Playmate of the Year.
Sinc ... Date added: 19 December '07 |
 Kasey Chambers Kasey Chambers was born on the on June 4, 1976 in Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia. She is a popular singer.
Biography and Career :
She grew up in Nullarbor Plain, South Australia an arid place where her parents and their family had a hard life. For survive, they hunted foxes and rabbits. In 1986 Kasey with her mother Dianne, her father Bill and her brother Nash founded a country ba ... Date added: 19 December '07 |
 Katherine Moennig Katherine Moennig (birth name Katherine Sian Moennig) was born on December 29, 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. She is an American actress known for her role as Shane McCutcheon on The L Word.
Biography and Career :
She is the daughter of a violin maker and her mother, a Broadway dancer. She started her acting career when she was just ten years old in a children theatre workshop in t ... Date added: 09 January '08 |
 Keanu Reeves Keanu Reeves (full name Keanu Charles Reeves) was born on September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is a famous actor mostly known for the role of "Neo" in "The Matrix" trilogy.
Biography and Career :
At the age of seventeen he decided to abandon school in favor of acting. Patricia Taylor and Samuel Nowlin Reeves are his parents. He became a great actor and some of his most important roles we ... Date added: 21 January '08 |
 Kelly Osbourne Kelly Osbourne (birth name Kelly Michelle Lee Osbourne) was born on October 27, 1984 in London, England, UK. She is an English television personality, singer, actress, radio presenter, and fashion designer.
Biography and Career :
She is the daughter of musician Ozzy Osbourne and TV personality Sharon Osbourne, Kelly has four siblings: Jessica Starshine and Louis Osbourne, born in 1972 and 19 ... Date added: 22 June '08 |
 Kelsey Grammer Kelsey Grammer (birth name Allen Kelsey Grammer) was born on February 21, 1955 in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He is a six-time Emmy and a two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor best known for his two-decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcoms Cheers (nine years) and Frasier (eleven years).
Biography and Career :
He is the son of Sally Granmer, a singer, ... Date added: 01 February '08 |
 Ken Griffey Jr. Ken Griffey Jr. (birth name George Kenneth Griffey, Jr.) was born on November 21, 1969 in Donora, Pennsylvania, United States. He is a Major League Baseball player on the Cincinnati Reds.
Biography and Career :
He had attended Archbishop Moeller High School. In 1987 was the first overall pick of that year's amateur draft by the Seattle Mariners and soon after became a valuable player for hi ... Date added: 01 February '08 |
 Kendra Wilkinson Kendra Wilkinson (full name Kendra Leigh Wilkinson) was born on June 12, 1985 in San Diego, California, USA. She is a television personality and model, especially known as Hugh Hefner's girlfriend.
Biography and Career :
She attended the Clairemont High School. She played softball for six years at Clairemont Bobby Sox. When she met Hugh Hefner she was a dancer at Cheetah's Strip Club in San ... Date added: 11 February '08 |
 Kerry Washington Kerry Washington was born on January 31, 1977, in The Bronx, New York, USA. She is an American actress, well known for her role in the Fantastic Four sequel.
Biography and Career :
She is the daughter of a successful real estate broker father and a professor and educational consultant mother. After she graduated from The Spence School in Manhattan she attended "George Washington University" ... Date added: 12 February '08 |
 Keyshia Cole Keyshia Cole was born on October 15, 1981 in Oakland, California, USA. She is a popular musician.
Biography and Career :
In 2004 she started her career as a musician and one year later released the album "The Way It Is". In 2007 she came up with a new album, "Just Like You". Both albums were very successful and she is now a famous singer.
Between 2004 and 2007 she had a contract with A&M/ ... Date added: 17 February '08 |
 Kim Cattrall Kim Cattrall (Full name Kim Victoria Cattrall) was born on August 21, 1956 in Widnes, England. She is an English-born Canadian actress, best known for her role in the HBO comedy/romance series Sex and the City.
Biography and Career :
She studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 1972 she began her acting career and since then became one of the most famous and popular actres ... Date added: 23 June '08 |
 Kim Director Kim Director was born on November 13, 1977 in Florida, USA. She is an American actress.
Biography and Career :
Before she became an actress she was a waitress in a restaurant in Manhattan called Brother Jimmy's BBQ. She attended Carnegie Mellon University where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting.
She debuted on TV screens in a film directed by Spike Lee in 1998 called "He Got Ga ... Date added: 19 February '08 |
 Krista Ayne Krista Ayne was born on July 30, 1980 in New York City, New York, USA. She is an actress and model.
Biography and Career :
She became a model at an early age and since then became a famous person. Appearances in movies and television series like "Sex & the City", "The Sopranos" and "Kettle Fish" made her popular all over the world. She also played in music videos for artists like 50 Cent, Bo ... Date added: 27 February '08 |
 Kristen Stewart Kristen Stewart was born on April 9, 1990 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a very young, beautiful and talented American film and television actress.
Biography and Career :
She is the daughter of John Stewart, a stage manager and producer who worked for FOX and her mother is a screenwriter. She debuted in 1999 with a minor role in made-for-television film "The Thirteenth Year" and aft ... Date added: 07 July '08 |
 Kristin Davis Kristin Davis (full name Kristin Landen Davis) was born on February 23, 1965 in Boulder, Colorado, USA. She is a popular actress best known for the role of Charlotte York on HBO's "Sex and the City".
Biography and Career :
Althought she was born in Boulder, Kristin moved with her parents to Columbia, South Carolina because of her father's work. She lived in South Carolina until she graduated ... Date added: 27 February '08 |
 Kristy Swanson Kristy Swanson (full name Kristen Noel Swanson) was born on December 19, 1969 in Mission Viejo, California, USA. She is a famous actress and that's mostly because of her role as Buffy Summers in Joss Whedon's 1992 film Buffy the Vampire Slayer..
Biography and Career :
She started modeling when she was a child and appeared in many commercials and television advertisements. In 1992 she appeare ... Date added: 28 February '08 |
 Lara Flynn Boyle Lara Flynn Boyle was born on March 24, 1970 in Davenport, Iowa, United States. She is a well know American actress.
Biography and Career :
She was born when her mother was only 21 years old so she didn't have a very happy childhood because the money weren't enough so her mother had to take three jobs to make money. As a child in the school she has some problems like dyslexia and a learning d ... Date added: 10 March '08 |
 Laura Prepon Laura Prepon was born on March 7, 1980 in Watchung, New Jersey, USA. She is a popular actress mostly famous for her role as Donna Pinciotti on the Fox television series That '70s Show and Hannah Daniels on the ABC television series October Road.
Biography and Career :
In 1995 she started her acting career and since then she managed to develop a successful career. The roles as Donna Pinciotti ... Date added: 03 June '08 |
