By: parmod gusain | 2009-09-07 | Movies Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone popular as Sylvester Stallone, nicknamed Sly Stallone, born on July 6, 1946 in USA. Sylvester Stallone is a Hollywood Superstar, director, producer and screenwriter. One of the biggest box office draws in the world from the 1970s to the 1990s, Stallone is an icon of machismo and Hollywood action heroism. He has played two characters that have become a part of the American cultural lexicon. read more
By: John Louie Ramos | 2010-05-27 | Recreation & Sports There are only two boxers I can think of that can literally stop a war: the fictional Rocky Balboaread more
By: Christina Pomoni | 2010-06-01 | Humanities born a woman, it becomes one", Simone De Beauvoir is the most provocative and instructive female author read more
By: Brooke Wolfe | 2010-05-31 | Humanities The study of art shows us that painting has had many functions over time. For example, art can be aesthetically pleasing, informative, or for money-making. read more
By: Mubeen Musthakeem | 2010-03-28 | Soccer A brief note on Ronaldinho and his club life. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, better known as Ronaldinho read more
By: Aldo Bonincontro | 2010-05-29 | Humanities Pythagoras of Samos was born about 570 B.C. in the island of Samos, Greece and he died about 495 B.C. maybe in Metapontum, Italy. - The importance of Pythagoras in the Greek culture. read more
By: Tim Harry | 2010-06-04 | Humanities Rembrandt is my favourite painter of all time, and in my consideration is the true master of all master painters. Rembrandt though was more than just a prolific painter, as he was an etcher and draughtsman of note. read more
By: John Paul Thompson | 2010-06-02 | Economics Whether in modern political discussion or in mundane everyday conversation, we''ve all undoubtedly heard expressions such as, "by any means necessary", "no matter what the cost", or "the ends justify the means. read more
By: Mairin Cooper | 2010-06-02 | Economics Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527) was, depending on your point of view, either a political genius or an unscrupulous political fanatic. The son of a local lawyer, he was born in Florence in 1469 into a family which is thought to have decended from minor Tuscan nobility. read more
By: Christine Zibas | 2010-05-31 | Humanities Both in life and his art, Caravaggio expressed his passion. He lived the artistic life of an avant-garde, liberated from traditional conventions. Yet, however wild and impetuous his own life appeared, there is nothing undisciplined in his painting. read more
By: John Welford | 2010-06-03 | Jewelry mixed one. He founded a powerful diamond and gold-mining company in De Beers, and did much to develop read more
By: Chris Pearce | 2010-06-03 | Jewelry failure, aged just forty-eight years. He is best known for founding De Beers, a diamond company that once read more
By: Eve Redstone | 2010-06-03 | Jewelry Cecil Rhodes was born the son of a vicar in 1853 in Bishop''s Stortford, England. He was the fifth son of nine children, and was a sickly and asthmatic child. In view of this he was sent aged sixteen to South Africa to join his elder brother, Herbert, on his farm. read more
By: April Self | 2010-06-03 | Jewelry When it comes to living each day as if it were your last, Cecil Rhodes after reading about his life, I knew was someone to be put into that category! Just by being an outsider looking in on his life and accomplishments, I admire his determination. read more
By: Lian Slayford | 2010-05-30 | Humanities Nzinga, Queen of Ndongo (Dona Ana de Souza) and Her Image in History In African history there are read more
By: Joan Schroeder | 2010-06-03 | Jewelry Cecil John Rhodes was both a businessman and a politician who used his wealth and power to expand the British Empire and his diamond empire. "I contend that we are the finest race in the world and that the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race. read more