Matthew C. Perry

 Matthew C. Perry landed in Japan in 1853 officially starting the opening of Japan to the rest of the world(although missionaries and traders came to japan beforehand). When he was directed to go to Nagasaki(the port open to the Netherlands) he refused and threatened to blow stuff up if the Japanese would not read his letter from the President , he even demonstrated with a few buildings.  A year latter he returned and the Japanese had done what the letter asked.  Matthew C. Perry died of Liver Cirrhosis due too too much drinking.

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt was the first  American to win a Nobel Peace prize. As a child he was sickly and had asthma but when he got older, he took up boxing and became very fit. He was a president of the U.S. and had 6 children. When he wanted to be elected again ,he started the Bull Moose party. The reason I thought he was interesting was that he had quite a lot of pets.

Boudica

Boudica was a Celtic queen who rebelled against the Romans invading Britain, with her daughters. She was said to be tall and very intelligent. Around AD 61 she with the aid of other Celtic tribes struck out at the Roman outpost of Camulodunum, where they defeated the poorly armed Roman infantry. She was  probably defeated at the battle of Watling Street.

Hatshepsut

Hatshepsut gained control of Egypt and took control of it from the Pharaoh she was a regent for . In fact Hatshepsut even donned the male,Egyptian, Pharaoh beard piece. She brought much wealth to Egypt by way of expeditions into Nubia and beyond. many great buildings and statues were built in her time. But when she died someone, perhaps a Pharaoh decided to remove her from history by chiseling her image out of walls, destroying her statues, and hiding her buildings.

Cleopatra VII

Cleopatra VII is the Cleopatra most people speak of, Also her reign was in the Roman times so it probably wasn't what you would stereotype as Ancient Egypty. She came to power when her father died leaving her and her brother Ptolemy XIII as joint rulers. What was curious about it that was also just plain weird thought probably not uncommon in ancient times was the fact she was married to him (Ptolemy XIII, Her own brother)! After only a couple years of joint rule she claimed power for herself and erased mentions of him off of coins and official documents, but her down fall happened soon after that. She had a son with Julius Caesar named Ptolemy Caesar and had 3 children with Mark Antony and protested Augustus's reign.

Tchaikovsky

Wrote and Created the Nutcracker. He also wrote the ballets for Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. In 1891 he conducted the inaugural symphony for New York Carnegie Hall. He died in 1893 He was a Russian.

Virgil

Virgil was a Roman who wrote the Aeneid, a story based off of Homers Odyssey and Iliad. The Aeneid is about Aeneas, who is one of the Trojans who survived the ransacking of Troy and was a famous Trojan leader and how after much traveling and danger found the land of Italy, settled there, and was an ancestor of Romulus and Remus.