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Augustus of Prima Porta (Italian: Augusto di Prima Porta) is a statue of Augustus Caesar which was discovered on April 20, 1863, in the Villa of Livia at Prima Porta, near Rome. Augustus Caesar's wife, Livia Drusilla, retired to the villa after his...

William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". Some of his more famous...

Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt (October 27, 1858 - January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States. He is well remembered for his energetic personality, range of interests and achievements, leadership of the Progressive Movement, model of...

Robert Edward Lee (1807 - 1870) was a career United States Army officer, a combat engineer, and among the most celebrated generals in American history. A top graduate of West Point, Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional soldier in the U.S...

Hercules is the Roman name for the mythical Greek demigod Heracles, son of Jupiter (the Roman equivalent of Zeus), and the mortal Alcmena. Early Roman sources suggest that the imported Greek hero supplanted a mythic Italic shepherd called...

Pan in Greek religion and mythology, is the companion of the nymphs, god of shepherds and flocks, of mountain wilds, hunting and rustic music. He has the hindquarters, legs, and horns of a goat, in the same manner as a faun or satyr. In Roman...

Charles John Huffam Dickens(1812-1870) This English novelist is one of the most well-liked writers in the history of literature. In his enormous body of works, Dickens combined masterly storytelling, comedy, tragedy, and biting wit with sharp...

John Hancock (1737 - 1793) was a merchant, statesman, and prominent Patriot of the American Revolution. He served as president of the Second Continental Congress and was the first and third Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is...

Born in Bonn, of the Electorate of Cologne and a part of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation in present-day Germany, he moved to Vienna in his early twenties and settled there, studying with Joseph Haydn and quickly gaining a reputation as a...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an18th-century Austrian classical composer and one of the most famous musicians of all time; he came from a family of musicians that included his father and sister. Mozart wrote masses, oratorios, symphonies, concertos,...