Category: History & Culture

Biography of Rudyard Kipling:- A Narrator and English poet, controversial for his imperialist ideas and is from one of the greatest storytellers of the English language. He belonged to a family of English origin (his father, John Lockwood Kipling, was a painter and superintendent of the Lahore Museum), and spent the early days of his childhood in India. At the age of six he was sent to England, where he

Biography of Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul:- Writer of Indian origin, considered one of the greatest writers alive in English, whose ample work, humorous, satirical, costumbrista, replete with both tenderness and cruelty, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born in Chaguanas, a small town on the island of Trinidad, on August 17, 1932. His grandparents, Indians, had left the Ganges plains at the end of

Biography of Baron of Baden-Powell:- Baden-Powell was particularly noted for his heroic defense of Mafeking for 217 days in the course of the Boers War (1899-1902), as well as for being the founder of the Boy Scouts (1908), an organization in which Baden -Powell was often appointed with his initials, BP or BP. He also helped his sister, Agnes Baden-Powell, in the gestation of the female branch of the organization,

Biography of Clements Robert Markham:- After moving his family to Essex, Clements began his studies at Cheam’s private college, from where he moved to London’s Westminster School. When he was only ten years old, he wrote the history of England and with fourteen he joined the British Navy. Thus, between 1844 and 1848 was in Peru, studying the remains of the Inca civilization; from that moment, Peru became the center

Biography of Muley Abdelaziz: – Sultan of Morocco (1894-1908). A favorite son of Sultan Muley Hasan and a slave of Circassian origin called Lalla Regia, in 1894 he was appointed successor to the Moroccan throne once his father disinherited the first-born Muley Muhammad. After the death of his father, Abdelaziz was crowned in very difficult circumstances by the serious political and social crisis that crossed the kingdom. Biography of Muley

Biography of Abd al-Rahman II: – Emir of Cordoba (822-852). His reign was characterized by political instability. Protector of the arts and letters, Cordoba became a great cultural center. He began a persecution against the Mozarabs and repelled the Norman incursions. Biography of Abd al-Rahman II Born:-  788 AD, Toledo, Spain Died:-  852 AD, Córdoba, Spain Parents:-  Al-Hakam I Children:-  Muhammad I of Córdoba GrandChildren:- Abdullah ibn Muhammad al-Umawi, Al-Mundhir of Córdoba Successor:- Muhammad I of Córdoba The younger

Biography of Abdul Hamid II: – Sultan of Turkey. Thirty-fourth Ottoman sultan of the dynasty of Osman, he held the throne between 1876 and 1909. He headed an autocratic government, although he was also the main driver of the Tanzimat (reorganization) of the Ottoman administration. Biography of Abdul Hamid II Born:- 21 September 1842, Topkapı Palace, Istanbul, Turkey Died:-   10 February 1918, Beylerbeyi Palace, Istanbul, Turkey Children:- Şehzade Mehmed Abdülkadir, Ayşe Sultan Spouse:-  Naciye Hanım (m. 1904), Behice Hanım (m.