Shop Famous Figures Creative history for the classical child! Each Famous Figures set presents historical figures from a specific era –kings, generals, philosophers, religious leaders, and scholars – in both pre-colored and color-them-in versions, to cut out and assemble into moveable action fig...
(May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, among other names, was an American cult leader who founded what became known as the Heaven's Gate religious group and organized their mass suicide in 1997, claiming the lives of 39 people. A native of Texas, Applewhite attended...
Awareness of asexuality has been rising in recent years, but this sexual orientation is nothing new. Marked by a lack of sexual attraction, asexuality can be found throughout history. Asexual historical figures include philosophers, composers, artists, and writers.Famous asexual peoplein history oft...
This Albanian nun is one of the most famous humanitarian figures in history. She spent herlife helping the poor and sickin India, and she founded the Missionaries of Charity, a religious order that continues her work today. In 2016, Mother Teresa was canonized as a saint by the Catholic Ch...
Even in some of the religious houses the brothers would meet at night for unseemly revels, splashing the stone floors with wine and shrieking in a delirium of drunkenness. The rules of the Church enjoined temperance, continence, and celibacy; but the decrees of Leo IX. and Nicholas II. and...
Francis Xavier, one of the most crucial figures in Christian missionary history. His relics at the Basilica of Bom Jesus attract pilgrims who come to pay homage and reflect on his missionary journey across Asia Minor. Guadalupe, Spain Guadalupe in Spain is centered around the Royal Monastery of...
Bernini pushed the humanistic and emotive style of Baroque art to the extreme, shocking common people and connoisseurs alike. His art was sensual, extraordinarily lifelike, and scandalous compared to the Classical or Renaissance styles that hewed to strict rules about how religious figures could and...
objects associated with religious figures. The pilgrims visited these places because they believed that contact with the objects or simply being in the physical space that a saint once occupied would endow them with greater spiritual clarity and grace. They also used pilgrimages as a form of penanc...
Mother Teresa of Calcutta, from Yugoslavia, decided early in her life that she had a religious vocation to serve the poor, and went to India to serve. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work. 08 of 100 Oprah Winfrey Hollywood To You/Star Max/Getty Images ...
Wu Zetian (625-705) is one of the most remarkable figures in Chinese history, both as an empress and the only female emperor. Her reign during the Tang Dynasty (618–907 AD) is often viewed as a period of significant political and cultural development. Known as Empress Wu Zetian, she ro...