William Blake was an English poet and artist whose illuminated prints included Songs of Innocence and Experience (1794), The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1792) and Milton (1811). Blake began writing…
Name at birth: Reinhold Richard PriebusReinhold "Reince" Priebus is a Wisconsin attorney who became the chairman of the Republican National Committee in 2011, then and helped lift Donald Trump to the…
Naomie Harris is an English actress who played Miss Moneypenny in James Bond movies and then earned an Oscar nomination for her role as a crack addict in the 2016 Barry Jenkins film Moonlight. With…
King George II was a Hanoverian prince who rose to the throne of Britain in 1727. His 33-year reign included wars with Spain and France and the expansion of the British empire into Canada and India…
Henry VIII ruled England from 1509-1547 and remains one of that country's most famous and controversial kings. He was the second monarch of the House of Tudor. Henry's hearty appetites and fickle…
Captain James Cook was an English naval explorer whose expeditions in the 1770s charted much of the lands of the Pacific, including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii. The son of an agricultural…
Francis Scott Key wrote the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner," the national anthem of the United States of America. Key was born and raised in western Maryland. He became a lawyer, first in…
Name at birth: Steven Rodney McQueenSteve McQueen is an English filmmaker and video artist known for his critically-acclaimed feature films Hunger (2008) and the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave (2013…
Sylvia Plath's haunting and personal poems and her tragic life story have placed her in the pantheon of contemporary American poets. Plath grew up outside Boston, graduated from Smith College and…
Reports of a mysterious creature in Loch Ness, Scotland go back to around the 6th century, but the legend of the Loch Ness Monster, nicknamed "Nessie," got a boost in the early 1930s with several…
