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J. J. ThomsonJoseph John Thomson was born on the 18th of December 1856 in Cheetham Hill, Manchester, into a family where the past was preserved in books and the future…
Benjamin BrittenEdward Benjamin Britten was born on the 22nd of November 1913, the feast day of Saint Cecilia, the patron saint of music, in the fishing port of Lowestoft on…
Henry JamesHenry James was born on the 15th of April 1843 at 21 Washington Place in Manhattan, yet the boy who would become the master of the English language struggled…
Florence NightingaleFlorence Nightingale was born on the 12th of May 1820 in Florence, Italy, to a wealthy and well-connected British family.