Prabook

James Cagney

James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor and dancer, both on stage and in film, though he had his greatest impact in film.

Je Tsongkhapa, whose ordained name was Losang Dragpa, was a great 14th century Tibetan Buddhist Master who promoted and developed the Kadampa Buddhism that Atisha had introduced three centuries earlier.

Pope Clement VII

Pope Clement VII must be a standout amongst the most insulted pontiffs the Catholic Church has had, and quite often unjustifiably so. His notoriety endures, not just from his own behavior, but rather from the season of his rule, toward the end of the celebrated Italian Renaissance. The offenses (generally overstated) of a portion of the pontiffs of this time have brought about numerous individual...

Mariano Rajoy

Mariano Rajoy is a Spanish politician and the leader of the People’s Party. He is the current Prime Minister of Spain.

Alan Parker

Sir Alan William Parker is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. Parker's early career, beginning in his late teens, was spent as a copywriter and director of television advertisements. After about ten years of filming adverts, many of which won awards for creativity, he began screenwriting and directing films.

Charles-Michel de l'Épée

Charles-Michel de l'Épée was a philanthropic educator of 18th-century France who has become known as the "Father of the Deaf".

Vincent Beauvais

Vincent Beauvais was a Dominican Cleric who took it upon himself to compile the Speculum Majus, an encyclopedia of all human knowledge upto the time of Louis IX of France.

Condoleezza Rice

Condoleezza Rice is an American political scientist, diplomat, author and professor. She served as the 66th United States Secretary of State and was President Bush's National Security Advisor during his first term, making her the first woman to serve in that position. Rice was the first female African-American Secretary of State, as well as the second African-American Secretary of State and the s...

Ferdinand Mannlicher

Ferdinand Ritter von Mannlicher was an Austrian architect and little arms originator.

Louis Brandeis

Louis Dembitz Brandeis was an American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1916 to 1939.

Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause.

Antoinette Louisa Brown

Antoinette Louisa Brown was an American minister, women’s rights activist, reformer, public speaker and author. She is known as the first women ever to become a minister of a recognized congregation. She also held a lot of lectures and used her public speaking skills to improve women’s rights significantly. She is also known for creating a religious foundation for sexual equality.

Charles Atlas

Charles Atlas whose real name was Angelo Siciliano was the developer of bodybuilding method and its associated exercise program that was best known for a landmark advertising campaign featuring Atlas’ name and likeness. The advert has been described as the longest lasting and most memorable ad campaigns of all time.

James Mattis

James Mattis, byname Mad Dog, is a United States Marine Corps general who served as head of Central Command (Centcom; 2010–13) and who was later secretary of defense (2017–18) in the cabinet of United States President Donald Trump.

Bennet Omalu

Bennet Ifeakandu Omalu is a Nigerian-American physician, forensic pathologist, and neuropathologist who was the first to discover and publish findings of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) by examining American football players while working at the Allegheny County Coroner's Office in Pittsburgh. He later became the chief medical examiner for San Joaquin County, California, and is a professor...

Shania Twain

Shania Twain is a Canadian singer and songwriter. Twain has sold over 85 million albums worldwide. She is also the best selling female artist in the history of country music, which garnered her honorific titles including the "Queen of Country Pop".