Read time ca. 4 minutes Dolores del Río, whose birth name was María de los Dolores Asúnsolo López-Negrete, was born on 3 August [...]

Read time ca. 5 minutes Lee Kuan Yew, who was born in Singapore on 16 September 1923, was one of the most prominent [...]

Read time ca. 6 minutes Charles XIV Johan, whose real name was Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, was a French military man who became the King of [...]

Read time ca. 5 minutes Abdusamat Taymetov, who was born on 9 January 1909, holds an iconic status in the history of Uzbekistan [...]

Read time ca. 7 minutes Maximilian Kolbe was a Conventual Franciscan friar, priest, and martyr who was born on 8 January 1894 in [...]

Read time ca. 7 minutes Virginia Hall was an American intelligence officer and resistance operative whose extraordinary courage and ingenuity made her one of [...]

Read time ca. 8 minutes The story of Matthew Wayne Shepard continues to resonate far beyond the small town of Laramie, Wyoming, where [...]

Read time ca. 9 minutes Josefina “Joey” Guerrero was an unlikely hero during World War II because she was a woman whose courage, [...]

Read time ca. 7 minutes Irena Sendler was a Polish social worker, humanitarian, and member of the resistance who saved thousands of Jewish [...]

Read time ca. 7 minutes Edna St. Vincent Millay was an American poet and playwright who remains one of the most celebrated literary [...]

Read time ca. 9 minutes Dian Fossey is a name that has become synonymous with the fierce protection of mountain gorillas, which are [...]

Read time ca. 7 minutes Odette Abadi was a French physician and a member of the French Resistance during World War II, whose [...]