Robert Louis Stevenson has written some of the most popular works of literature to appear in the last two centuries. Robert Louis Stevenson’s most famous books are Treasure Island and Kidnapped, two of the most famous and best written adventure …[Continue]
About Aesop
While Aesop’s fables have been some of the most popular stories around for centuries upon centuries, we basically know absolutely nothing about Aesop himself. We do know that he was Greek, and he was probably born in Thrace. Thrace is …[Continue]
About Edward Lear
Most people don’t know anything about Edward Lear and his life. However, just about everybody is more than familiar with what Edward Lear was best at: his limericks. Edward Lear is most famous for his incredible and his hilarious limericks, …[Continue]
About Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley
Wilson Bentley, resident of Vermont, became the first known photographer of the snowflake. He perfected a way of catching the snowflakes perfectly on black velvet so he could capture photos of them before they actually melted. The discovery that “no …[Continue]
About Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent Van Gogh was a Dutch Post Impressionist artist whose paintings have become world renowned and are among some of the most popular and expensive pieces of art work available for purchase. He was supported financially by his brother Theo …[Continue]
About the Salem Witch Trials
If you are unfamiliar with the Salem Witch Trials, they were a series of hearings held before local magistrates to prosecute people that were accused of witchcraft in Essex, Suffolk, and Middlesex Counties of colonial Massachusetts. The trials took place …[Continue]
About Rosa Parks
Most historians have stated that the modern civil rights movement began with perhaps a quiet, unknown woman by the name of Rosa Parks. On December 1, 1955 in Montgomery Alabama, Rosa parks refused to give up her bus seat to …[Continue]
About Robert Frost
“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference” are the famous lines written by the American poet Robert Frost. He wrote many poems and plays during his …[Continue]
