Halle Berry made history as the first black woman to win a Best Actress Oscar for 2002's Monster's Ball. Jenna Jameson started acting in erotic films in 1993 after having worked as a stripper and glamour model. Michael Jackson of the few artists...

His real name is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.Twain adopted his pen name in 1863 in Nevada. While he was a teenager, Mark Twain worked as an amateur printer. Mark Twain published more than 30 books throughout his career. Twain was a steamboat...

Freud was born in Freiberg in what is now Czechoslovakia on May 6, 1856. He attended the University of Vienna in Austria. Sigmund Freud is the founder of the science of psychology . Sigmund Freud, the Austrian founder of psychiatry, did believe that...

Walt Disney didn't graduate from high school . At age 16, during World War I, he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross. Walt Disney was the voice of Mickey Mouse for two decades. Walt Disney won more Oscars than anyone else...

Thomas Edison was partially deaf. He developed this problem in his childhood days. He built his own science laboratory at the age of 10. This was built in the basement of his home. Edison’s First Patented Invention was a Flop. In 1910...

Winston Churchill was was a British politician and statesman known for his leadership of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. On 12th September 1908 Churchill married Clementine Ogilvy Spencer and the following year published a book on his...

Picasso's full name is Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso. His father was a painter and a professor of art at the School of Crafts and...

There are about 350 different types of sharks, but researchers think there are other sharks that haven't been discovered yet! Most sharks live for about 25 years, while some of them can live to be a 100 years too. More people are killed by bee...

Clinton and George W. Bush were not the only draft dodgers of war, Grover Cleveland, was accused by his Presidential Election opposing candidate of being one also, because he paid a man $150 to take his place. Herbert Hoover’s son had 2 pet...

He was known as “O’Bomber” at high school for his skill at basketball. He experimented with drugs. Back in his early years he tried marijuana and cocaine. According to his own words he is not proud of it and considers it a mistake as a young...

Babies are born with swimming abilities and can naturally hold their breath. However, they shortly lose this instinct. Newborn babies have an acute sense of smell, which enables them to recognise the natural scent, or pheromones, from their...

William Shakespeare was a great English dramatist and poet, the writer of 36 plays, 154 sonnets, and two narrative poems. Shakespeare's works of the 16th and 17th centuries include "Antony and Cleopatra," "Hamlet," "Henry VI," "Julius Caesar," "King...