Quotes About Historical figure

Thomas Paine, so celebrated and so despised as he traveled through the critical events of his time, has long appealed to biographers. Paine was present at the creation both of the United States and of the French Republic. His eloquence, in the pamphlet 'Common Sense,' propelled the American colonists toward independence.

It was Francisco de Vitoria, a Catholic priest and professor, who earned the title of father of international law.

Eratosthenes , the mapmaker who was the first man to accurately measure the size of the Earth, was a librarian.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Was Judas Iscariot a figure of history? I do not think so. There is no mention of him in any source before the 8th decade.

Elizabeth I was so ugly that she couldn't get a husband. So everyone called her the ugly virgin." -Gordon Gelderman

This was the noblest Roman of them all.

We will then hear from the founder of the Mayo Clinic, . . . Dr. Ted Clinic.

The father of his country.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

an unlikely champion of minority rights. His name was Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili – Stalin ('man of steel')

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

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Fernão de Magalhães, or Ferdinand Magellan. According to most accounts, he was born in 1480, in the remote mountain parish of Sabrosa, the seat of the family homestead. He spent his childhood in northwestern Portugal, within sight of the pounding surf of the Atlantic.

Muhammad is the greatest man that history ever knew

Governor Beriah Magoffin

But always remember what Eleanor Roosevelt used to say." "Who?" (Gaynor's not really one for history. Maybe I can tutor him next.) "She was FDR's wife," says Uncle Frankie. "Oh. Cool. So who's FDR?" "That's not important.

The father of Egyptology was Father Athanasius Kircher.

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the famous ichnologist and Josephine's brother-in-law. But all that's ancient history.

Check it out-this is a copy of a painting of a Greek High Priestess named Calliope. it says she was also the Poet Laureate after Sappho. Doesn't she look exactly like Cher?' Wow, that's insane. She does look just like young Cher,' Erin said. Yeah, before she started wearing those white wigs. What the hell's up with that?' Shaunee said. Damien gave the Twins a look. 'There is nothing wrong with Cher. Absolutely. Nothing.' Uh-oh,' Shaunee said. Stepped on a gay nerve,' Erin agreed.

Whether we like it or not, Linge's Hitler comes across as a rounded human being, and he is arguably all the more terrifying for that. Linge

Catherine Tekakwitha, who are you? Are you (1656-1680)? Is that enough? Are you the Iroquois Virgin? Are you the Lily of the Shores of the Mohawk River? Can I love you in my own way?

The great British philosopher and historian R. G. Collingwood maintained in The Idea of History that to write well about a historical figure, you need both empathy and imagination. By this he did not mean spinning tales out of thin air, but taking what is known and examining it in the full context of time and place, following the strands of the story until they begin to intertwine and establish a thick braid of reality.