2010-07-11 16:00
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2010-06-30 10:48
Charles Robert Darwin was born on 12 February 1809 in Shrewsbury, Shropshire into a wealthy and well-connected family. His maternal grandfather was china manufacturer Josiah Wedgwood, while… Read More
2010-06-30 10:43
Vasco da Gama was born in about 1460 into a noble family. Little is known of his early life. In 1497, he was appointed to command an expedition equipped by the Portuguese government, whose i… Read More
2010-06-29 20:27
Hernán (or Hernando) Cortés was born in 1485 in Medellín, western Spain. He initially studied law but left university to make his fortune in the Americas.In 1504 he sail… Read More
2010-06-29 20:25
Francis Harry Compton Crick was born on 8 June 1916 near Northampton. He studied physics at University College, London, and during World War Two worked for the Admiralty on the development o… Read More
2010-06-29 20:22
Oliver Cromwell was born on 25 April 1599 in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire into a family of minor gentry and studied at Cambridge University. He became member of parliament for Huntingdon in th… Read More
2010-06-29 20:17
Christopher Columbus was born in Genoa between August and October 1451. His father was a weaver and small-time merchant. As a teenager, Christopher went to sea, travelled extensively and eve… Read More
2010-06-29 20:00
Cleopatra was born in 69 BC - 68 BC. When her father Ptolemy XII died in 51 BC, Cleopatra became co-regent with her 10-year-old brother Ptolemy XIII. They were married, in keeping with Egypt… Read More
2010-06-29 19:54
Claudius was born on 1 August 10 BC in Gaul (now France) into the Roman imperial family. Tiberius, the second emperor of Rome, was his uncle. Claudius suffered from physical disabilities, in… Read More
2010-06-29 19:53
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born on 30 November 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire. His father was the prominent Tory politician, Lord Randolph Churchill. Churchill attended th… Read More
2010-06-29 19:44
Charlemagne was born in the late 740s near Liège in modern day Belgium, the son of the Frankish king Pepin the Short. When Pepin died in 768, his kingdom was divided between his two s… Read More
2010-06-29 19:40
Sophie Friederike Auguste von Anhalt-Zerbst was born on 2 May 1729 in Stettin, then part of Prussia (now Szczecin in Poland), the daughter of a minor German prince. In 1745, after being rece… Read More
2010-06-29 19:35
Fidel Castro was born on 13 August 1926 in the south-eastern Oriente Province of Cuba. He was the son of a successful sugar planter. Castro studied law at the University of Havana. He intend… Read More
2010-06-29 19:05
Archimedes was born in Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily and educated in Alexandria in Egypt. He then returned to Syracuse, where he spent most of the rest of his life, devoting his ti… Read More
2010-06-29 19:05
Robert Boyle was born on 27 January 1627 in County Waterford in the south-east of Ireland. He was the seventh son of the earl of Cork. He was educated at Eton and then travelled and studied… Read More
2010-06-29 19:05
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was born in 1881 in Salonika (now Thessaloniki) in what was then the Ottoman Empire. His father was a minor official and later a timber merchant. When Atatürk… Read More
2010-06-29 19:05
Behn was the first professional woman writer in English literature, best known for her plays and her novel 'Oroonoko'.Aphra Johnson was born near Canterbury in 1640, and baptised on 14 Decem… Read More
2010-06-29 19:05
Alexander was born in the northern Greek kingdom of Macedonia in July 356 BC. His parents were Philip II of Macedon and his wife Olympias. Alexander was educated by the philosopher Aristotle… Read More
2010-06-29 19:05
Jane Austen was born on 16 December 1775 in the village of Steventon in Hampshire. She was one of eight children of a clergyman and grew up in a close-knit family. She began to write as a te… Read More
2010-06-29 19:05
Napoleon Bonaparte was born on 15 August 1769 in Corsica into a gentry family. Educated at military school, he was rapidly promoted and in 1796, was made commander of the French army in Ital… Read More
2010-06-29 04:50
We are a group of Avid Quizzers who have recently passed out of the school and started this blog that deals with the School Level Quiz. This blog is provides online quizzes which deal with S… Read More
2010-06-06 15:20
1. One of the most famous comets, it returns every 75 to 76 years and will return in 2061. Which one? Ans. Halley’s comet2.What does the V stand for in DVD?Ans. Versatile 3. This hill… Read More
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