Top Ten ListsSurrealism was a movement, primarily in literature and the visual arts, that flourished in Europe between the First and Second World War. Along with Abstract Expressionism, it was perhaps the most influential art movement of the... Read more
Top Ten ListsRosa Louise McCauley Parks (1913 – 2005) was an African American civil rights activist who in 1955 famously refused to give up her bus seat launching the influential Montgomery bus boycott. Parks began her career as an activist in the... Read more
Top Ten ListsHarry S. Truman (1884 – 1972) served as the 33rd President of the United States from April, 1945 to January, 1953. Under the presidency of Truman, the United States engaged in an internationalist foreign policy, a departure from its... Read more
Top Ten ListsThere have been many masterpieces created by French painters over the course of the rich artistic history of their nation. Neoclassicism, which drew inspiration from ancient Greco-Roman culture, rose in France in the middle of the 18th... Read more
Top Ten ListsBlaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) was a French mathematician, scientist, religious philosopher and writer who was an influential contributor to all of these fields. Pascal came up with Pascal’s Theorem at the age of 16 and before he turned... Read more
Top Ten ListsRudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) was an English author who wrote some of the most well known short stories, novels and poems. He worked in India for seven years from 1882 to 1889, and the influence of his time in the east can be seen in... Read more
Top Ten ListsCatherine II (1729 – 1796), known as Catherine the Great, was the Empress of the Russian Empire for a period of 34 years from 1762 till her death in 1796, making her the longest-ruling female leader in the history of Russia. She... Read more
Top Ten ListsStephen Grover Cleveland (1837 – 1908) served as the 22nd and 24th President of the United States from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He remains the only US President to serve two non-consecutive terms. Before becoming president... Read more
Top Ten ListsSurrealism was a movement, primarily in literature and the visual arts, that flourished in Europe between the First and Second World War. Surrealist artists rejected rationalism and literary realism; and instead focused on channeling... Read more
Top Ten ListsRicardo Eliécer Neftalí Reyes Basoalto (1904 – 1973), known by his pen name Pablo Neruda, was a Chilean poet and politician. He became known as a poet when he was only 10 years old and when he was 19, his poetry collection Twenty Love... Read more