A.F. & A.M.

I have always believed that Harold Abrahams was the only European sprinter who could have run with Jesse Owens, Ralph Metcalfe, and the...

"A fool is a man who never tried an experiment in his life." Erasmus Robert Darwin was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of...

"America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco." Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor and painter. He is best known for...

Charles Joseph Coward, known as the "Count of Auschwitz", was a British soldier captured during the Second World War who rescued Jews...

"All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow." Grant DeVolson Wood was an American painter and representative of...

"Left side!" Joseph Mercer was an English soccer player and manager. Mercer, who played as a defender for Everton and Arsenal in his...

"Indeed it is possible to stand with one foot on the inevitable 'banana peel' of life with both eyes peering into the Great Beyond, and...

“Perhaps, after all, the greatest psychologist is not the metaphysician but the novelist.” William Besant,was born at Portsmouth,...

“Zut, Alors.” André-Gustave Citroën was the fifth and last child of Jewish parents, diamond merchant Levie Citroën and Masza Amelia...

“One infinite pure and holy – beyond thought beyond qualities I bow down to thee.” Narendranath Datta, better known as Swami Vivekananda...

“Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness...

“And so it will appear that women's eyes in Hawaii, as elsewhere, have in all ages swayed the hearts and nerved the arms of the greatest,...

“It occurred to me that if I could invent a machine - a gun - which could by its rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle ...

“One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few ...

"Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation." Vannevar Bush was an...

“I dared where the wise ones feared to tread.” King Camp Gillette was born on January 5, 1855 in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and raised in...

“The less you hurt others, the more you get hurt yourself.” Felix Salten was born Siegmund Salzmann in Pest, Austria-Hungary to Fülöp...

I shall endeavour still further to prosecute this inquiry, an inquiry I trust not merely speculative, but of sufficient moment to...

Hey, this is MY dance! Carl Dean Switzer best known as Alfalfa in the 1930s "Our Gang" series of shorts was a child actor, professional...

"I never laugh until I've had my coffee." William Clark Gable (was an American film actor, often referred to as "The King of Hollywood"....