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Helen Keller was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer who was deaf and blind from childhood. She learned to communicate with Anne Sullivan, her teacher and companion, and wrote several books, including her autobiography The Story of My Life.
Time 100 is an annual list of the top 100 most influential people in the world, selected by Time magazine editors. The list covers various fields and criteria, such as leaders, heroes, artists, and thinkers, and is celebrated with a gala event in New York City.
A book by Michael H. Hart that ranks the 100 people who most influenced human history, based on their actions and achievements. The first person on the list is Muhammad, followed by Isaac Newton, Jesus, Gautama Buddha, and Confucius.
Time magazine compiled a list of 100 people who shaped the 20th century in various categories, such as leaders, artists, scientists, and heroes. The list sparked controversies and criticisms, especially for choosing Albert Einstein as the Person of the Century and including Bart Simpson and Lucky Luciano.
Marie Curie was a Polish-born French physicist and chemist who discovered polonium and radium and won two Nobel Prizes. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the first person to win two Nobel Prizes in different sciences, and the founder of the Curie Institute.
Learn about Marco Polo, a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road in the 13th century. Find out his family origin, his adventures in the Mongol Empire and China, his imprisonment by the Genoans, and his influence on European cartography and culture.
Jesse Owens was an American track and field athlete who won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics in the 100 m, long jump, 200 m, and 4 x 100 m relay. He set three world records and tied another in less than an hour at the 1935 Big Ten meet and was credited with crushing Hitler's myth of Aryan supremacy.
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and writer who worked on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, a proposed mechanical computer. She was the only legitimate child of poet Lord Byron and reformer Anne Isabella Milbanke, and had a lifelong interest in "poetical science".