Leonardo’s Saint Jerome in the Wilderness show the hermit/saint in the desert of Syria. Jerome is best known for befriending a lion after taking a thorn out of it’s paw. St. Jerome in the Wilderness is still unfinished and is now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
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Michelangelo Di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni was born on March 6 1475 in Caprese Italy. His father worked for the government was called, soon after, to work in Florence and it was Florence that Michelangelo would call home. Michelangelo was born in what we now call the Renaissance Period. The Renaissance was from the 14th century
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World Wildlife Day The first World Wildlife Day was observed on March 3, 2014, as a way to celebrate and raise awareness of the world’s wild animals and plants. The day was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in 2013 at its 68th session, and is dedicated to promoting the importance of wildlife
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Mother Teresa of Calcutta was awarded The Nobel Peace Prize on October 17, 1979. Mother Theresa was a Roman Catholic nun who lived from August 25, 1910 to September 5, 1997. Mother Teresa began The Missionaries of Charity which served the poor, homeless, disabled, the sick and the dying. This organization now has over 4500
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The Sound of Music, the last show that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein would collaborate on together (Hammerstein passed away before the opening of the show) opened on Broadway at The Lunt Fontaine Theater in November 16, 1959. The show ran for a total of 1443 performances. The Sound of Music tells the true story
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50 United States Quick Facts US State #1. Delaware – Capitol: Dover, joined on Dec. 7, 1787, nickname: The First State US State #2. Pennsylvania – Capitol: Harrisburg, joined on Dec. 12, 1787, nickname: Keystone State US State #3. New Jersey – Capitol: Trenton, joined on Dec. 18, 1787, nickname: Garden State US State #4.
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On October 20 1955 JRR Tolkien finally published The Return of the King the last volume of his Lord of the Rings trilogy. After the publication of The Hobbit in 1937 his publishers wanted and his public wanted to know more about Hobbits. In 1939 Tolkien picked up his pen again and began to write
A.A. Milne (PCM) A.A. Milne (Alan Alexander) was born on January 18, 1882, in London. He attended Cambridge University to study mathematics but soon found his true passion was writing. After graduating from Cambridge, Milne began his writing career working for Punch Magazine. He married Daphne” de Sélincourt in 1903. He was writing for Punch
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Jules Leotard Jules Leotard was a French acrobat and aerialist born on November 4, 1842, and died on August 7, 1870. He is best known for inventing the one-piece garment that bears his name, the “leotard”. He performed acrobatics and aerial stunts in circuses and became famous for his aerial performances in Paris in the
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