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Karl Marx Biography Karl Marx was born 5 May 1818. Born in Trier, Germany, Marx studied law and philosophy at university. He married Jenny von Westphalen in 1843. Marx and von Westphalen had seven children together, but partly owing to the poor…
Vladimir Lenin Biography Vladimir Lenin was born to a moderately prosperous middle-class family in Simbirsk. Lenin embraced revolutionary socialist politics following his brother’s 1887 execution. Expelled from Kazan Imperial University for participating in protests against the Russian Empire’s Tsarist government, he devoted…
Che Guevara Biography He was born on June 14, 1928 to Ernesto Guevara Lynch and Celia de la Serna y Llosa. As a young medical student, Guevara traveled throughout South America. Later he was radicalized by the poverty, hunger and disease he…
Fidel Castro Young Castro was born out of wedlock at his father’s farm on 13 August 1926. His father, Ángel Castro y Argiz, a veteran of the Spanish–American War, was a migrant to Cuba from Galicia, Northwest Spain. Soon he had become…
Mao Zedong Biography He was born on December 26, 1893. Mao Zedong was the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan. He had a Chinese nationalist and anti-imperialist outlook early in his life. Mao later adopted Marxism–Leninism while working at Peking…
Archimedes Principle King Hiero II of Syracuse made crown for a temple, who supplied the pure gold for this purpose. King asked Archimedes to determine whether the dishonest goldsmith substitute some silver for gold. Archimedes had to solve the problem without damaging…
Pol Pot Biography Born to a prosperous farmer in Prek Sbauv, French Cambodia. His parents educated Pol Pot at some of Cambodia’s elite schools. In the 1940s, he moved to Paris, France, where he joined the French Communist Party and adopted Marxism–Leninism….
Amartya Sen Spouse Amartya Sen has been married three times. His first wife was Nabaneeta Dev Sen, an Indian writer and scholar, with whom he had two daughters: Antara, a journalist and publisher, and Nandana, a Bollywood actress. Later their marriage broke…
Lewis and Clark Trail The Lewis and Clark Trail is a United States National Historic Trail commemorating the journey of the 1804-1806 Corps of Discovery expedition that explored the U.S.A.’s newly acquired Louisiana Purchase. Starting in Illinois, it follows the Missouri River to the headwaters in the Rocky Mountains,…
Lewis and Clark Expedition President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Lewis and Clark expedition shortly after the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. He wants them to explore and to map the newly acquired territory and to find a practical route across the western half of the continent. He…