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The man known to history as Nikola Tesla was born on the 10th of July 1856 in Smiljan, Lika, which was originally part of the Austro-Hungarian empire but is now located in Croatia. His father was Milutin Tesla, a priest of the Serbian Orthodox Church and the son of Nikola Tesla’s grandfather who was also named Nikola. His grandfather had ...

>> Narrator: LIKE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS BEFORE THEM, LEWIS AND CLARK WERE LITERALLY STEPPING OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH. VAST EXPANSES WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER WERE GIANT VOIDS ON THE MAPS OF NORTH AMERICA-- VOIDS SURE TO BE FILLED WITH GIANT MONSTERS, CITIES OF GOLD, AND MOUNTAINS MADE OF DIAMONDS. FOR TWO AND A HALF YEARS, THE 32-MAN EXPEDITION ...

The man known to history as Albert Einstein was born on the 14th of March 1879 in the city of Ulm in the south of what was then the German Empire. Ulm was a major urban centre of the Kingdom of Wurttemberg, a major constituent part of the German state in the late nineteenth century. His father was Hermann Einstein, ...

The man known to history as Robert Oppenheimer was born on the 22nd of April 1904 as Julius Robert Oppenheimer in New York City. He quickly became known primarily by his middle name and is typically referred to today as Robert Oppenheimer or J. Robert Oppenheimer. Robert was born into an affluent Jewish family in New York City. His father ...

The man known to history as King George III of Great Britain and Ireland was born on the 4th of June 1738 in Norfolk House in St James’s Square in the city of Westminster in London. His father was Frederick, the eldest son of King George II who had ruled England since 1727. The House of Hanover, from which Frederick ...

The man known to history as Napoleon Bonaparte was born on the 15th of August 1769 in the town of Ajaccio on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. For centuries this had formed part of the Republic of Genoa, but at the time Napoleon was born it had just been amalgamated into the Kingdom of France. Napoleon’s father was Carlo Buonaparte, ...

The man known to history as John Jay was born on the 23rd of December 1745, or the 12th December following the Julian calendar, in New York City, then a town of 10,000 people in the colony of New York, one of more than a dozen colonies on the North American fringe Of the British Empire. John’s father Peter Jay ...

NARRATOR: From A&E, this is "Biography" Saturday. For January 8th, 2000, "Biography" with Harry Smith. His courage was beyond question, his honor beyond challenge. Last month marked 200 years since George Washington died at Mount Vernon. When news of his death spread throughout the colonies, every town held memorial services To mourn the passing of our first national hero. A ...

The man known to history as Mao Zedong or Chairman Mao was born on the 26th of December 1893 in the village of Shaoshan in the province of Hunan in southern China. His father was Mao Yichang who had been raised in a family of poverty-stricken peasants. However, after serving in the Xiang Army for a few years in his ...

The man known to history as Doctor Benjamin Franklin was born on the 17th of January 1706 in Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, in a small, two-room house. His father was Josiah Franklin born in 1657 in the Northhamptonshire village of Ecton, In England, to a working-class, protestant family who for generations were known for their intelligence, ...