Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller’s major poetic and dramatic works — Die Räuber (1782), Don Carlos (1787), Wallenstein Stuart (1800) and Wilhelm Tell (1804) — all express a yearning for ...

Abraham Stoker was born near Dublin, Ireland, graduating from Trinity College with honours in mathematics. In 1872, Stoker published his first melodrama, The Crystal Cup, a dream fantasy. While ...

Born into a Catholic family at Gurtrue, County Cork County Cork, Ireland, Ronayne claimed in his autobiography to have taught school in 1849. He renounced Catholicism in 1851, graduating the same year ...

William Penn Adair Rogers was educated early in his life mostly at Indian territory schools. He began his show career in 1902, when he was "The Cherokee Kid" with Texas Jack’s Wild West Show in South ...

With a record of nearly fifty years public service in the community, during which he was successively a member of the City Council and of the Federal Parliament, Edgar Crow Baker died last evening at ...

In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after ...

Born Erich Weiss, Harry Houdini was a world famous escape artist and trapeze performer, as well as the inventor of the diving suit, and the first successful aviator in Australia. Houdini was not alone ...

Founder of the Red Cross, a founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and co-winner of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, he also worked to bring about the 1864 Geneva Convention. In Un ...

With four friends, school teacher and federal government employee, Justus Henry Rathbone founded the Order of Pythias on 15 February 1864, based on "Damon and Pythias", a dramatic play by Irish poet ...

Remembered today for Butchart Gardens—now a famous tourist attraction near Victoria, British Columbia—created by his wife, Jeannie, in the abandoned quarries surrounding their home. BUTCHART, Robert ...

"Masonry has more to offer the twentieth century than the twentieth century has to offer Masonry." Dr. Pound is best known for advancing the "theory of social interests" in law, asserting that law ...

British naval officer, won fame as a leading naval commander before his death at the Battle of Trafalgar made him one of Britain’s greatest national heroes. His title in full was Vice Admiral of the ...