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Reducere. If asked to list important inventors, few remember to include Alessandro Volta. Yet, his is a household name more spoken than that of Alexander Gra...

Reducere. The story of a dreamer...Envisioning a socio-economic utopia, A. P. Giannini was not a typical banking tycoon. With a socially enlightened heart, h...

Reducere. "My experience in childhood and adolescence of the subordinate role played by the female in a society run entirely by men had convinced me that I w...

Reducere. They said, "No " She asked, "Why?" The answer was always the same: "Because you're a woman." She vowed to shatter each barrier they placed in her w...

Reducere. The Forbidden City--home to the opium-addicted Ming Dynasty emperor and protected by thousands of ruthless eunuchs--no European had ever been insid...

DescriptionBorn into privilege at the end of the 1300s in an age of turmoil, Cosimo de' Medici, heir to the Medici banking fortune, grew up surroun...

Reducere. His loyalty lasted a lifetime...Surgeon, merchant, vintner, and writer Filippo Mazzei influenced American business, politics, and philosophy. Befri...

Reducere. DescriptionHer passion became her reality.Children were her life, and God's messenger Mother Frances X. Cabrini dedicated her entire life to caring...

Reducere. Luca Pacioli stood beside the great Leonardo da Vinci and gazed at The Last Supper. He saw immediately that something was terribly wrong.An orphan ...