The ship the SS Great Eastern in 1858.Early Life and EducationBrunel was born on the 9th of April, 1806, in Portsmouth, England, to a French father, Marc ...

Early Life and Meeting His Crime FamilySicilian gangsters of Chicago are most often associated with Cicero and the South Side, but there was also a small ...

Banknotes awaiting distribution during the 1923 German hyperinflation. Source: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-R1215-506 / CC-BY-SA 3.0, available here.Early life ...

A teacher, Mary R. Hyde, and students at the Carlisle Indian Training School. Source: here and here.At least two years before 2016, large numbers of ...

The Uffington White Horse. Source: World Wind, available here.The description of this activity has been termed “leucippotomy” for the carving of horses ...

Barnes Neville Wallis.Early life and educationWallis's early life provided the foundation for his eventual career in engineering. His father, Charles ...

Phineas Gage in the time after his accident.Phineas Gage is perhaps the most famous neurological patient in modern history, called one of the “great ...

A 1915 advert for Cascade Whisky from the Rock Island Argus.NashvilleFrom the 1890s through the tumultuous years leading to Prohibition, the city of ...

A 1915 advert for Cascade Whisky from the Rock Island Argus.NashvilleFrom the 1890s through the tumultuous years leading to Prohibition, the city of ...

R.V. Jones (left), DCI James Woolsey, and Jeanne de Clarens.Early life and educationR.V. Jones was born on September 29, 1911, in Herne Hill, London, to ...