Every Biographies of Famous People

                                                                                     Franz Josef: The Last Great Emperor  He’s one of the five longest reigning monarchs in the history of the world. Emperor Franz Josef ruled over first Austriaand then Austria-Hungary for almost precisely 68 years. Coming to the throne on the back of a revolutionaged just 18, his reign coincided with some of the most-important events in European history. It was while Franz Josef was emperor thatthe Second French Empire rose and fell, that Germany was forged by blood and iron, and- most strikingly - that the events unfolded that would pave the way for WWI. Yet Franz Josef was more than just a mereobserver. Under his watch, Vienna became a culturalpowerhouse, gifting the world Freud...

 Spartacus:                               The Slave Who Made Rome TrembleAccording to legend, Spartacus’s wife walked in on her sleeping husband one night to findthat a snake had wrapped itself around his face. Instead of being alarmed, she took this asa prophecy. Just like the serpent surrounded itself aroundthe warrior’s head, so shall Spartacus be enveloped by a “great and fearful power”. One thing the woman could not see, however,was if this power would lead her husband to glory or disaster. In the end, you will have to decide for yourselfwhat the outcome was. Spartacus might have lost the war, sure, butnot before making the all-powerful Roman Republic tremble at his feet. At a time when the might of Rome was continuouslyexpanding all over the Mediterranean, a mere slave led an uprising the likes of which theworld had never seen. He defeated wave after wave of Roman armiesand looked, for a while ...

                                                                                                  Biography of Bodhidharma                          Bodhidharma: Founder of Zen, from India to Shaolin                   Today’s protagonist was born as a Princein a southern Indian kingdom, but he soon discarded his palace life to embrace the studyof Buddhism. As a travelling Master, he journeyed to China,where he gained powerful disciples and founded Dhyana Buddhism, better known in China asChan, and later in Japan as Zen. He is also credited as the first Kung Fu Masterat the Temple of Shaolin. He popularised meditation, introduce...

                                                                                BIOGRAPHY OF ALEXANDER Alexander the Great stood at the head of theworld’s most feared army, using it to carve for himself a vast empire. He crushed the Persian Empire and then thrusthis way into Egypt and India to become the acknowledged king of kings. Then at the height of his power he was cutdown, leaving behind a legacy of heroism, divinity and tyranny.                                                                                                     ...