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Christopher Columbus (1451 - 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere. With his four voyages of exploration and...

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...

A reproduction of the Pietro Tacca boar which is itself a reproduction of an ancient greek sculpture. A marble version resides in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, while a bronze casting is part of fountain in Marketo Nuovo in Florence as well. Il...

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...

Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 - July 4, 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801-1809), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers. 18X14X33 (inches) : ...

Diana was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon in Roman mythology. In literature she was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult beliefs she was Italic, not Greek, in...

Diana was the goddess of the hunt, being associated with wild animals and woodland, and also of the moon in Roman mythology. In literature she was the equivalent of the Greek goddess Artemis, though in cult beliefs she was Italic, not Greek, in...

Pauline Bonaparte (20 October 1780 - 9 June 1825) was the first sovereign Duchess of Guastalla, an imperial French Princess and the Princess consort of Sulmona and Rossano. She was the sixth child of Letizia Ramolino and Carlo Buonaparte, Corsica's...

St Fiacre is most renowned as the patron saint of growing food and medicinal plants, sometimes more broadly referred to as simply gardening. The legend of Fiacre goes that St Faro allowed him as much land as he might entrench in one day with a...