Biography Desk

Biography of Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel:- Political and Hindu lawyer. He was known as Serdar Patel, who in Hindi means Leader Patel . He was one of the most prominent Indian nationalist politicians in the struggle for the country’s independence alongside Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru during the crucial years ranging from 1920 to 1950. Biography of Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel Born:- 31 October 1875, Nadiad, India Died:- 15 December 1950, Mumbai, India Fullname:-  Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel

Biography of Alexander the Great :- King of Macedonia whose achievements and extraordinary military skills allowed him to forge, in less than ten years, an empire stretching from Greece and Egypt to India, Thus beginning the so-called Hellenistic period (centuries IV-I BC) of antiquity. It happened very young to his father, Philip II , assassinated in the year 336 BC This one had prepared to him to reign, providing a

Biography of Wilhelm Koppers:- Missionary in Tierra del Fuego (1921-1922) and in India (1938-1939), since 1928 he taught ethnology in Vienna. He was director of the journals Anthropos and Wiener Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte und Linguistik and is the author of important works on the cycles of civilizations. Biography of Wilhelm Koppers Born:-  8 February 1886, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Died:- 23 January 1961, Vienna, Austria Educated in seminaries of the missionary order Societas Verbi Divini

Biography of Bhaskara:- From the earliest times, with Aryabhata (born 476), Brahmagupta (598) and other illustrious mathematicians, there had taken place in India a remarkable development of arithmetic and algebra. The 12th century stands out the figure of Bhaskara, also called Acharya, that is, “the Master”. Biography of Bhaskara Born:- 1114, Bijapur, India Died:- 1185, Ujjain, India Parents:-  Mahesvara Children:-  Lilavati, Loksamudra Bhaskara wrote a treatise on mathematics and astronomy entitled Siddhantasiromani ( Diadem of Astronomical Treatises

Biography of Marco Polo :- By the end of the thirteenth century, Venice remained one of the world’s largest commercial and maritime powers. It was common to hear there, in the shadow of the opal domes, beside the sumptuous palaces and in view of the golden gondolas, the most extraordinary stories and pilgrims. But those that Master Marco Polo, newly arrived from the ends of the world, had eclipsed them

Biography of Strabo:- Aristocratic (descended from a noble Cretan family), he traveled extensively in Asia Minor, Egypt, Italy and Greece. Having lost its historical work, only the seventeen books of its Geography , which covered all the world known until then , are preserved with certain gaps . Biography of Strabo Born:-  Amasya, Turkey Died:- 23 AD, Amasya, Turkey Books:-  Geographica, The Life of St. Gall,  This monumental work, provided with historical indications and varied

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