Jethro Tull

Jethro Tull was born in 1674. He is famous for helping start the Agricultural Revolution. He invented the seed drill which plows seeds in straight rows; he supposedly got the idea from a church organ. He wanted farmers to use horses instead of oxen for farming. He died in 1741.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born in 1859. He is famous for writing the Sherlock Holmes novels. Mr.Conan Doyle was actually quite interested in spiritualism and the paranormal; he believed the Cottingley Fairies Hoax. He was friends with Houdini, but they both broke their friendship when Doyle claimed Houdini had magic powers and Houdini tried to prove him wrong. Doyle died in 1930 of a heart attack.

Eugene Delacroix

Eugene Delacroix was born in 1798.  He is famous for the famous French revolution painting, Liberty Leading the People. One thing France did to honor him is that his portrait is on the 100 francnote. He enjoyed Morocco although he wished to be able to draw women which he did once with the painting The Women of Algiers.  He died in Paris in 1863

Tycho Brahe By: Camille Butera

Tycho Brahe was born on 14 December 1546. He was a famous Danish astronomer who had a geo-heliocentric system for the way the Sun supposedly went around the earth. He is also famous for having a silver nose. One of his notable astronomical discoveries was a supernova in 1572.

Here is how Tycho Brahe described the supernova “I noticed that a new and unusual star, surpassing the other stars in brilliancy, was shining almost directly above my head; and since I had, from boyhood, known all the stars of the heavens perfectly, it was quite evident to me that there had never been any star in that place of the sky, even the smallest, to say nothing of a star so conspicous and bright as this”(Brahe 44). He was a very good note taker on the position of the planets and was usually quite close to were they accurately were!

His Geo-Heliocentric system worked in an odd way. According to him the sun and the moon went around the earth and the rest of the planets went around the sun! He also figured out a way to pinpoint objects in the sky using parallax, which is when something shifts like when you close one eye and then to the same with the other.

His family life was very complicated because when he was born his parents had promised him to his uncle ,but decided not to give him at the last minute. His uncle was very upset so he kiddnaped baby Tycho and had him raised like his own son. Tycho's uncle expected him to go into polotics so he was very annoyed when Tycho fell in love with astronomy. His uncle thought it was a teenage phase as Tycho was only a teen at the time, but he sends Tycho to law school and hires a companion to make sure Tycho doesn't stargaze. After his uncle dies of pneumonia, he goes to colleges search for an astronomy teacher and at one college he gets into a duel and has the tip of his nose cut off. For the rest of his life he wears a gold and silver tip on his nose. Denmark's King Frederick II decides that Tycho is very smart after he publishes a book on the supernova, so he gives him a private island and a large sum of money so that he can build a giat scientific palace. But when King Frederick II dies and is succeded by his 11 year old son who doesn't like Tycho, Tycho is sent away and gets a patron in The Holy Roman Emporer Rudolf II, who expects Tycho to tell the future for him.

Tycho Brahe died in 24 October 1601. His scientific discoveries helped people Accept the Copernican method even if he never believed in it.

Jane Austen

Jane Austen was born in 1775. She is famous for writing Pride and Prejudice. She never married a( her sister Cassandra never married either) and had six brothers and one(aforementioned) sister. Her books were outside of the social norms in 19th century books as they slightly mocked society. Her books have become a classic and have had many different adaptions made of them. She died in 1817.

John James Audubon

John James Audubon was born in 1785. He is famous for the book Birds of America. He was born in what is now Haiti but moved to France when he was young, but immigrated to the US. The Audubon society was named after him. He died in 1851.

Paul Revere

Paul Revere was born in 1734. He is famous for  the Ride of Paul Revere which was that he rode to Lexington from Boston to warn John Hancock and Samuel Adams that the British were preparing to march on Lexington. He is also known to be a Son of Liberty, part of a group of men who wanted to be free in colonial Britain. He was a Silversmith. He died in 1818.

Frederick the Great

Frederick the Great was born in 1712. He doubled the size of Prussia using armies His predecessor (Frederick William I)  had built to challenge Austria, France, and Russia. Fredrick conquered Silesia from Austria's empress Maria Theresa. Frederick greatly improved Prussia's Business and made it a cultural center in the Enlightenment.
He died in 1786.

Leif Ericson

Leif Ericson was born in 970 A.D. to Eric the Red. Leif's father had been banished from Iceland  and had discovered Greenland and settled there. Leif himself was to surpass his fathers discovery as he sailed and attempted to settle in Newfoundland(an area in Canada). Leif Ericson Day is held on October 9.

John Constable

John Constable was born in 1776. He was an English romantic painter, who mainly did landscapes. His wife was disinherited for marrying him. Although his painting is now popular in Britain at the time he painted it was much popular in France.  He died in 1835.

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was born in 1706. He is famous for being an American revolutionary and Founding Father. He was also a scientist who supposedly discovered electricity while flying a kite. He was also a printer who wrote Poore Richards Almanac which was filled with sayings and other things of use to common people. He died in 1790.

Joseph Turner

Joseph Turner was born in 1775. He was a painter who did Romantic style watercolors. His artwork was mainly landscapes. His atwork was fantastic and extreme showing natures beauty and anger in some cases. One of his paintings, The Fighting Temeraire, was polled in Britain as it's greatest painting.   He died in 1851.

Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great was born in 1729. She married the king of Russia, Peter III, but hated him. She made friends and allies out of the army generals and when she was left alone in Saint Petersburg had a coup against him. She lived a life of extravagance which was a harsh contrast to the life of most of the peasants. she was called "Great" as she was very good at conquering more land for Russia.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was born in 1850. He is famous for writing the books Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He married Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne who had been previously married and had 3 children. He died in 1896 leaving an unfinished book.