Tenzin Gyatso or ‘Dalai Lama’ (born July 6, 1935) is the spiritual leader of Tibet. Following China’s invasion of Tibet in 1949, His Holiness the Dalai Lama was asked to take full political power and was given the rank of Dalai Lama. In 1954, he also went to Beijing to talk to many Chinese leaders … Read more
Mother Teresa was born on 26 August 1910. Her birthplace was Skopje, which is now the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. She was an Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (who travel from one place to another in the propagation of religion). When the second world war happened, Teresa was crushed. She was stunned … Read more
Emerson was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on May 25, 1803, American lecturer, poet, and essayist, the leading exponent of New England Transcendentalism. Ralph Waldo was just 8 years old when his father died. His studies were interrupted by sickness, and Emerson moved south for a time to recover, working on poetry and sermons. In 1827. … Read more
Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, in Rodwell, Virginia. By obtaining a degree in the law branch, In 1767 he took a Diploma in Law. Being a smart and good lawyer, he was elected as a member of the ‘House of Burgius’. At the same time, America’s independence movement was going on very fast. … Read more
Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was born in Concord, Massachusetts, into a “modest New England family” of John Thoreau, a pencil maker, and Cynthia Dunbar. His grandfather was born on the Crown dependency island of Jersey in the UK. His grandfather, Asa Dunbar, led Harvard’s 1766 student “Butter Rebellion”, the … Read more