Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was a brillant author and he also happened to be a « detective ». Indeed, he personnaly investigated two cases already judged. He contributed to free two innocents condamned (George Eladji and Oscar Slater). What is more estonishing is that he had an interest in mystical subjects. Indeed in 1887 he joined the Society for Psychical Research and…
Henry McCarty (1859 – 1881), better known as Billy the Kid. He was a gunman who is famous because he participated in the Lincoln County War. He also became an outlaw in the Old West. It is said that he killed between 8 to more than 20 men; never the less what is certain is that his first…
John Henry “Doc” Holliday (1851 – 1887) was an American dentist gambler, shooter, and famous for his friendship with Wyatt Earp. At the age of 20, Holliday earned a degree in dentistry from the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery. He started in Atlanta, Georgia but he was soon diagnosed with tuberculosis. He transmitted this diseaes to all his patient. By then, doctors weren’t aware of the fact…
The “Love Song for Shu-Sin” a Sumerian king is the world’s oldest known love poetry (2000 BCE), it was written most probably by a bride chosen for the king. According to the Sumerian belief, it was a sacred duty for the king to marry every year a priestess instead of Inanna, the goddess of fertility and…
Walter Elias “Walt” Disney (1901 – 1966) was an American business magnate, cartoonist, animator, voice actor, and film producer. The great-grandfather of Walt Disney was a descendant of Robert d’Isigny, a French who came in England with William the Conqueror in 1066. From D’Isigny it became Disney in english. Disney passion for drawing came in 1906…
Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel (19 August 1883 – 10 January 1971) was the founder of the French Chanel brand. Chanel, 37 years old Her mother died in 1895 when she was only 12. Channel’s father placed her and her 2 sisters in an orphanage where she developed her mythomania, indeed she invented a life concerning…
Joseph Wilson Swan born in 1828 died in 1914 is the inventor of the incandescent light bulb. He demonstrated the light bulb in 1878 but received a patent only in 1880. His house in England was the first to be lit by light bulb in the world. The first public building to be lit…
Born in 1821 and died in 1967 at 46 years old. Charles Beaudelaire lost his father at the age of 6. He had an agitated life. Indeed, he failed in high school, was even expelled from college. After that he was addicted to drugs, and had major debts, so many that he lived in more…
This is the Oldest Book of the world, The Etruscan book of gold, written 2673 years ago. Etruscans were an ancient group who moved from Lydia (now in Turkey) to central Italy nearly 3 thousand years ago, which gave the name of the city Toscana. The book was made for the funeral of an aristocrat…
Edgar Allan Poe, 40 years old, “Annie” daguerreotype, 1849, the year he died. Intelligent and feroce at the same time, Poe wasn’t appreciated by everyone. His friends were often shocked by his clothes excessively neat and his excellent elocution. He officially died on 7th of October 1849 due to a “congestion of the brain”. But the cause…
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