Oliver Cromwell 奥利弗?克伦威尔 Born in Huntingdon in 1599 to a relatively poor squirearchal family, Cromwell found religious zeal as a Puritan while studying at Cambridge. His faith influenced his appearance: he was conservative in his clothi...
Vladimir Putin 弗拉基米尔普京 He is fearless, altruistic, steel-willed, hospitable,unbelievably hardy, unpretentious and warm-and he has lost none of these qualities since becoming Russia's president. 热情、无畏、无私、好客、谦逊、...
Winston Churchill 温斯顿丘吉尔 Winston Churchill began his love affair with painting in his 40's, a mid disastrous circumstance. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he was deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have sho...
Barack Obama 巴拉克奥巴马 With his Kenyan father and white American mother, his upbringing in Honolulu and Jakarta, and his Ivy League education, Obama's early life experiences differ markedly from those of African American politicians who laun...
Martin Luther King 马丁路德金 Martin Luther King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. His father was the minister of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, as was his father before him M.L, as he was called, lived with his parents, his sister...
Franklin Roosevelt 富兰克林罗斯福 Franklin Roosevelt was one of the most important leaders of twentieth century America and perhaps in the whole span of American history. He significantly changed the role of the federal government in the Ameri...
Henry VIII 亨利八世 When the eighteen-year-old Henry VIII became King of England, he was extremely popular, for he had all the qualities that his people admired. 当十八岁的亨利八世成为英格兰国王的时候,他非常受欢迎,因为...
Bao Shuya 鲍叔牙 In Chinese culture Bao Shuya is known mainly for his loyalty to his friend, as well as his open-mindedness and tolerant and his judgement of ability; Guan Zhong's political career and the subsequent power of the state of Qi arguab...
Napoleon Bonaparte 拿破仑波拿马 About a hundred years ago there lived a great general whose name was Napoleon Bonaparte. He was the leader of the French army; and France was at war with nearly all the countries around. He wanted very much to ta...
Abraham Lincoln 亚伯拉罕林肯 Lincoln's face is familiar to people all around the world, at least his face when he was wearing a beard. But he didn't wear a beard until later in his life. When he started out as a judge and then a lawyer, he had...