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Bram Stoker: The Famous Irish Creator Of Count Dracula

Bram Stoker ‘As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.’ This chilling quote is from one of the most famous

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Steve Jobs: The Man Whose Myths Created A Global Phenomenon

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Although a few of us may not perceive this, virtually all human beings are complex creatures. We are full of intricacies some of which we will never be aware of, such is human nature. We all have inherent contradictions, we are hypocritical and we are inconsistent. All of this, together with our choices, makes us who

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Roy Lichtenstein: The Artist Who Shocked The World

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You will know it when you see it. Instantly recognisable and plainly ubiquitous it can be seen everywhere. From advertising billboards, to television, to comic books to art galleries the work of Roy Lichtenstein has permeated the fabric of our everyday lives.

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Nikola Tesla: The Inventor Genius Who Irrevocably Changed The World

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A thin, immaculately dressed man makes his way through New York. The same city which had undergone an electric revolution where streets at night were dazzlingly lit by arc lights, and Wall Street had been recently electrified through Edison’s direct current. ‘I have done better than that.’ Yet, this wondrous new world was confined to

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Joseph ‘Joe’ Kennedy: The Patriarchal Shadow That Hangs Over The Kennedys

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‘Out of the furnace of flames and torrid heat comes the hardened steel blade. A blade that owes it very existence to its hellish birth.’ He was the dominant figure that ruled over the Kennedy family but he was far from perfect. Power-hungry and filled with ambition, if anybody got in his way Joe would

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Joyce Hatto: The Great Pianist That Fooled The World

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In 2003, she would become the most famous pianist in the world. The toast and the envy of the music industry, Joyce Hatto rose from a place of previous obscurity to temporarily become the world’s transcendent piano player as a series of her recordings caused tidals waves throughout the classical music sphere.

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Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek: The Linen Trader Who First Glimpsed The Microscopic

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In a time when science was well-funded and complex technology was improving all the time, one man went against the grain with wonderful results. Without scientific training and without huge resources, he was the first person to see the invisible world of the microscopic, the first to watch tiny, single-celled animals hurling across their watery

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Henrietta Swan Leavitt: She Changed The World But Paid The Price

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While Edwin Hubble may have garnered all the plaudits for discovering other galaxies, the true genius that did all the work is often forgotten. Punished because of her sex, Henrietta Swan Leavitt’s work has changed the nature of astronomy forever.