Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804, German metaphysician, one of the greatest figures in philosophy, b. Konigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Early L...

Poet William Blake once said "If The Doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is, infinite" (Gilmor...

On April 12, 1961, Yury Gagarin made history by being the first human to orbit the earth. As a precaution, engineers at the Soviet Academy ...

Wolfgang Mozart is a famous Austrian composer. Mozart was born in 1756 in Saltsburg, Austria. His father, a violinist and a composer, notice...

William Shakespeare is the greatest of all playwrights and poets of all times. Not much is known of his life. He was probably the son of a b...