Famous Edgar Degas Paintings
02/05/13 at 1:53 pm
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, better known as Edgar Degas, was born to Celestine Musson De Gas and Augustin De Gas on July 19, 1834 in Paris, France and died there on September 27, 1917 at the age of 83 years. He was one of the most famous French painters and is best known for his mastery [...]
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Dictatorship is generally regarded as an absolute rule by an individual or a small group, who governs without the consent of those who are governed. The dictators consider themselves above the law and that they are not accountable to anyone. Human beings are instinctively possessive and those who happened to be at the helm of [...]
Full StoryFamous Multiple Sclerosis Sufferers
Multiple sclerosis, commonly known by its acronym MS, is a disease of the central nervous system, first described by Jean Martin Charcot in 1868. In this disease, the insulating fatty material called myelin, which covers certain brain cells, nerves and spinal cord, is damaged, and the relevant cells or nerves are exposed. The damage occurs [...]
Full StoryFamous Set of Sisters
Many sisters have become famous in history for various reasons. Sets of sisters have often opted for the entertainment business and quite a few of them, from a lowly start, became famous celebrities. Other than in the show business, sets of sisters have been famous in the fields of sports, activism, and academics. Sister sets [...]
Full StoryFamous Teetotalers in History
Teetotaler, also spelled teetotaller, originated from the word ‘total’. The term was coined by R. Turner of Preston in 1833. A teetotaler means a person who strictly abstains from drinking alcoholic beverages. According to an anecdote, the term originated when Dicky Turner, a member of Preston Temperance Society, said, “I’ll be reet down out-and-out t-t-total [...]
Full StoryFamous Tibetan Monks
A Tibetan monk in the Tibetan language is called a Trapa, and very often the terms Bhikkhu or Lama are also used synonymously. Bhikkhu, literally meaning a beggar, stands for a fully ordained monk, and Lama stands for an incarnation of a previous Lama. All the Lamas are monks but not all the monks are [...]
Full StoryFamous Leaders with Mental Illness
Mental illness is defined as any characteristics of impairment of an individual’s normal behavioral, emotional, or cognitive functioning. Mental illnesses include one or more of various disorders, such as anxiety disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, or narcissistic personality disorder, and many others. According to WHO, about one third of the [...]
Full StoryFamous ENFP People
ENFP is an acronym which stands for extraversion, intuition, feeling and perception. It defines one of the sixteen personality types according to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, MBTI. This system of assessment was developed from the work of the famous psychiatrist Carl G.Jung by Isabel Briggs Myers, Katharine Cook Briggs, and Keirsey. Jung typed the personalities [...]
Full StoryFamous Rejection Stories
Rejection goes hand in hand with acceptance even in the natural or most controlled processes. An apple tree, for example, bears many fruits, and whereas most of them conform to an average size, weight, shape, color, flavor, and texture, a few of them are invariably out of the acceptable limits or simply are rejects. Rejection [...]
Full StoryFamous Split Personalities
Split personality or multiple personality disorder are obsolete terms for a mental disorder characterized by two distinct or dissociated mental personalities that control an individual’s behavior. Since 1994, both the terms split personality and multiple personality disorder have been officially replaced by DID, standing for Dissociative Identity Disorder. The disorder is followed by an inexplicable [...]
Full StoryFamous Male Tennis Players
The term tennis originated from the French root ‘tenez’, meaning to receive or hold, a communication from the server to the opponent. Tennis tournaments are organized in consideration of gender, number of players, age groups, or physical constraints. There are four Grand Slam tournaments or major tennis events, and they include the Australian Open, the [...]
Full StoryFamous Vigilantes
The word vigilante, derived from the Spanish root vigilans, literally means a watchman. Currently it applies to an individual or a group who uses illegal authority for law enforcement. The vigilantes emerge when the people consider the governments are too weak to enforce law effectively. The vigilantes justify their actions by assuming that their actions [...]
Full StoryFamous Declamation Speeches
Declamation originated from the Latin declamare, meaning to cry or shout. A declamation speech is a loud, oratorical, rhetorical, and emotional speech, which originally was intended to protest or condemn. With the passage of time it was also used to project an idea or a person. Anyone desirous of going into public service had to [...]
Full StoryFamous Families in History
Originating from the Latin root familia, meaning affiliation, a traditional family is comprised of a husband, wife and children. A family is the basic unit of a society. When it comes to knowing about families in their historical perspectives, there is a special branch of study known as genealogy, which traces family lineages through out [...]
Full StoryFamous Humanitarians
Humanitarianism is defined differently throughout various disciplines. In Ethics, it implies that human beings can achieve perfection without divine help, (help from ‘God’). Theologists believe that Jesus came as God in human form. In common terms, it represents the concern for human life and wellness. Its aim is to end or reduces human suffering ,and [...]
Full StoryFamous People Who Claimed to be Time Travelers
Time travel is the idea of moving from one’s existing time to another time in the past or the future. The phenomenon had been mentioned in scriptures and ancient literature. Einstein’s theory of relativity has been mentioned as the most likely explanation of this phenomenon. In 1972 Bailey and other scientists subjected a ‘muon’ to [...]
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