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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...

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,...

Venus was a major Roman goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility, who played a key role in many Roman religious festivals and myths. From the third century BC, the increasing Hellenization of Roman upper classes identified her...

George Washington (1732 - 1799) served as the first President of the United States, and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War. Because of his significant role in the revolution and in the formation of the United...

Bust of Brutus by Michelangelo. Marcus Junius Brutus (early June 85 BC - late October 42 BC), often referred to simply as Brutus, was a politician of the late Roman Republic. He is best known in modern times for taking a leading role in the...

Hermes is the great messenger of the gods in Greek mythology and additionally as a guide to the Underworld. An Olympian god, he is also the patron of boundaries and of the travelers who travel across them, of shepherds and cowherds, of the cunning...

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...

Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa was a Roman statesman and general. He was a close friend, son-in-law, lieutenant and defense minister to Octavian, the future emperor Caesar Augustus. He was responsible for most of Octavian's military victories, most...

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 - 1965) was a British politician known chiefly for his leadership of the United Kingdom during World War II. He served as Prime Minister from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. A noted statesman and...