WICKES, Eliphalet, a Representative from New York; born in Huntington, Long Island, N.Y., April 1, 1769; during the Revolution was employed as an express rider; studied law; was admitted to…
Name at birth: Iosif Vissarionovich DzhugashviliRuthless and ambitious, Joseph Stalin grabbed control of the Soviet Union after the death of V.I. Lenin in 1924 and held it until his own death in 1953…
Queen Anne was the queen of England, Scotland and Ireland during the War of Spanish Succession (1702-14), an era that lay the foundation for Britain's colonial power in the 18th century. The second…
columnist, political writerBorn: 1950Birthplace: New York, N.Y. Working as a waitress, Noonan attended Fairleigh Dickinson University at night, earning a BA in English. Raised a Democrat, Noonan…
PETERS, Richard, Jr., a Delegate from Pennsylvania; born near Philadelphia, Pa., June 22, 1744; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1761; studied law; was…
Name at birth: Jada Korsen PinkettJada Pinkett Smith has been on the big screen since the 1990s, but she's best known for her role as Niobe in the sequels The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and Matrix…
Jiang Qing was the last wife of Mao Zedong and one of the most powerful women in China while Mao was alive. After he died she was tried and sentenced to death as an enemy of the state. Jiang Qing…
Thomas Piketty is a French economist who became a best-selling author in the United States after his 2013 book Capital in the Twenty-First Century was translated into English in 2014. Piketty studied…
English author Mary Wollstonecraft is the author of 1792's A Vindication for the Rights of Woman, one of the earliest treatises to advocate equal rights for women. She began publishing in the late…
Ferdinand Marcos was president of The Philippines from 1965 until he was forced to flee in 1986 because of popular opposition to his rule by decree. Ferdinand Marcos was in law school when he was…
