Birth SignAquarius BirthplaceLondon,England DEATH DATEApr 9, 1626 (age65) #51,049Most Popular Boost About Renaissance author and philosopher best known for his advocacy of the scientific method. He was knighted by King James I in 1603. ...
QUOTES To be ignorant of causes is to be frustrated in action. The sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge. Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.Advertisement...
£7,000anddebtstotheamountof£22,000.NameBirthDateandDeath FRANCISBACON(BaronVerulam,ViscountSt.Albans)22January1561——9April1626 Birthplace London,ElizabethanEngland HighlypoliticalfamilyFather——SirNicholasBaconMother——AnneWife——AliceBarnhamAttheageof12——TrinintyCollege,Cambridge Family Backgrounds...
Hardly anything is know about this great man except what he tells us in his book. The dates of his birth and his death are unknown, but he seems to have been a much younger man that John of Plano Carpini. It is almost certain that he was a native of Flanderes, deriving his name ...
Francis Scott Key- United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843) Key Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-...
Francis Bacon - The Portraits Francis Bacon was born in Dublin, Ireland to English parents. When F. Bacon grow up and was more independent he then travelled...
Drake had thus become the first Englishman to circumnavigate the world and the second person ever, after the Basque mariner Juan Sebastian Elcano (who took over Ferdinand Magellan’s expedition after his death). The treasure Drake captured made him a wealthy man, and the Queen Elizabeth I ...
On the set Kay gave her now notorious interview to Dick Mook, “I Can’t Wait to be Forgotten,” which appeared in the March 1939 issue ofPhotoplay. Women in the Wind page. Wonder Bar.Warner Bros., 1934. Directed byLloyd Bacon. Musical numbers byBusby Berkeley. Starring Al Jolson, Kay...