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Useful knowledge from the lives of the Greatest People in History. Learn the stories and insights about influential people you should have learned in school.
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Have you ever had a profound insight and then looked at the clock to see 11:11? Maybe you can remember thinking about someone and then they called you the next minute? Just coinc...
5 Psychologists and One Theory You Should Know 1. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961) The Collective Unconscious: The collective unconscious is a theoretical construct proposed by Jung, whi...
There are a lot of kings called “the Great” - Alexander the Great - Ashoka the Great - Constantine the Great - Cyrus the Great - Frederick the Great - Peter the Great - Ramses th...
Who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe? It was Ferdinand Magellan, right? Not exactly. But let’s dive into this story involving eating leather, battling on the bea...
Pablo Picasso produced 147,800 pieces of art… -13,500 paintings -100,000 prints and engravings -300 sculptures and ceramics -and 34,000 illustrations Impressive. But, why is his...
He worked in the Library of Alexandria. His book is said to be the most translated, published, and studied of all books produced in the Western world, behind only the Bible. He i...
“I know nothing” You know Socrates said this, but what's the story behind this saying? Well, the story begins when a friend visits the Oracle of Delphi... https://t.co/Xjk8PwSmNF
Shakespeare wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets and introduced over 1,700 new words to the English language. But was he even a real person? Or was “Shakespeare” a pen name for a secret g...
Napoleon studied Julius Caesar. Julius Caesar studied Alexander the Great. But who did Alexander the Great study? Cyrus the Great… https://t.co/jGuvt3Zud1
Albert Einstein was often lost in thought, but he always had one thing with him. And no, it wasn’t his pipe… Hint: Wolfgang https://t.co/wQ77co4ULH
You know Isaac Newton was a Great Scientist. But did you know he spent 3 decades living a secret life studying a subject we laugh at today? So, what was he studying? https://t.c...
14 GREAT ARTISTS and their most beautiful (or interesting) art. 1. ALBERT BIERSTADT (1830 - 1902) -The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak -Among the Sierra Nevada, California -The L...