Social Media
Social media refers to the online platforms and apps that let people create and share content and connect with one another. In barely two decades, it…
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Electric Vehicles
Electric vehicles, or EVs, are cars and other vehicles powered by electric motors and batteries instead of by burning petrol or diesel. Once a niche…
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a secret American research effort during World War II that produced the first atomic bombs. A vast scientific and…
The Black Death
The Black Death was a devastating plague that swept through Europe, Asia, and North Africa in the mid 1300s, killing tens of millions of people. One…
World War II
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the deadliest and most widespread conflict in human history, involving most of the world's nations and claiming an…
The Titanic
The Titanic was a British ocean liner that sank in 1912 on its very first voyage after striking an iceberg, killing about 1,500 people. The disaster…
Serena Williams
Serena Williams (born 1981) is an American tennis player widely regarded as one of the greatest athletes of all time. With a record breaking career…
Charlie Chaplin
Charlie Chaplin (1889 to 1977) was a British actor, filmmaker, and comedian who became one of the most important and beloved figures in the history…
Neil Armstrong
Neil Armstrong (1930 to 2012) was an American astronaut and the first human being to set foot on the Moon. His step onto the lunar surface in 1969…
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill (1874 to 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister during the Second World War and led the United Kingdom through…
Jane Austen
Jane Austen (1775 to 1817) was an English novelist whose sharp, witty stories of love, marriage, and society have made her one of the most beloved…
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856 to 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded psychoanalysis, a revolutionary and controversial approach to understanding the…
Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin (1920 to 1958) was a British scientist whose work was crucial to discovering the structure of DNA, the molecule of heredity. Long…
Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (1928 to 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist whose powerful writing about her life and struggles made her…
Bob Marley
Bob Marley (1945 to 1981) was a Jamaican singer and songwriter who became the most famous figure in reggae music and a global symbol of peace, unity,…
Freddie Mercury
Freddie Mercury (1946 to 1991) was a British singer and songwriter, the lead vocalist of the rock band Queen. Famed for his extraordinary voice and…
Bruce Lee
Bruce Lee (1940 to 1973) was a Hong Kong American martial artist and actor widely regarded as the most influential martial artist of all time and a…
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson (1958 to 2009) was an American singer, dancer, and songwriter known as the "King of Pop." One of the best selling and most…
The Human Genome Project
The Human Genome Project was a landmark international effort to map all of the genetic information in a human being. Completed in 2003 after more…
The Large Hadron Collider
The Large Hadron Collider, or LHC, is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, built by the European laboratory CERN near Geneva.…