Fame TVNiels Henrik David Bohr was born on October 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Christian Bohr and Ellen Adler Bohr. His father was a physiology professor and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Danish Jewish family. Niels was the second child of his parents. He had an elder sister – Jenny, and a younger brother – Harald. Niels was home-schooled until he was aged 7. After then, he began his formal schooling at the Gammelholm Latin School. The school was both an elementary and high school and observed strict discipline. The school expected its students to be disciplined and work hard.
Niels' father, who was so passionate about his children's education, would bring home some of his fellow professors from the University of Copenhagen and allow his children to listen to their conversations, which encompassed arts, philosophy, and science
Neils Bohr Biography | Animated Video | Renowned PhysicistFame TV2019-12-31 | Niels Henrik David Bohr was born on October 7, 1885, in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Christian Bohr and Ellen Adler Bohr. His father was a physiology professor and his mother was the daughter of a wealthy Danish Jewish family. Niels was the second child of his parents. He had an elder sister – Jenny, and a younger brother – Harald. Niels was home-schooled until he was aged 7. After then, he began his formal schooling at the Gammelholm Latin School. The school was both an elementary and high school and observed strict discipline. The school expected its students to be disciplined and work hard.
Niels' father, who was so passionate about his children's education, would bring home some of his fellow professors from the University of Copenhagen and allow his children to listen to their conversations, which encompassed arts, philosophy, and scienceDon Hernán Cortés BiographyFame TV2021-06-29 | Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, who referred to himself as Hernando, was born in the town of Medellin, modern day Spain, in 1485 to a family of lesser nobility. His father’s name was Martín Cortés de Monroy, and his mother was Catalína Pizarro Altamirano. Cortes studied Latin under his uncle in Salamanca at the age of 14 and returned home to Medellin after two years. However, this upset his parents as they wanted him to learn more topics so he could get a profitable legal career.P T Barnums BiographyFame TV2021-06-27 | ...Hans Christians BiographyFame TV2021-06-24 | ...Barbara McClintocks BiographyFame TV2021-06-24 | ...Bret Harts BiographyFame TV2021-06-22 | ...Confucius BiographyFame TV2021-06-21 | Confucius was born Kong Qiu on September 28, 551 BC in modern-day Shandong province, to Kong He, who was an elderly commandant of the Local Lu garrison, and his wife, Yan Zhengzai. The name Confucius is a Latin form of the Mandarin Chinese Kong Fuzi, which means Master Kong. Kong He, Confucius' father, died when Confucius was just three years old, leaving him to be raised solely by his mother. He received his education at schools for commoners where he studied the Six Arts. When he attained the age of 19, he got married to Qiguan, and the next year they had their first child, in later years, they had two more daughters.Max Plancks BiographyFame TV2021-06-19 | Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck was born in Kiel, on the north coast of Germany, on April 23, 1858. He had five older siblings. His father, Johann Planck, was a law professor and his mother, Emma Patzig.
Max attended elementary school in Kiel. In 1867, the family relocated to Munich in southern Germany, where his father had been offered a tempting professorship.James Pattersons BiographyFame TV2021-06-19 | ...Karl Poppers BiographyFame TV2021-06-19 | Karl Raimund Popper was born in Austria’s capital city, Vienna, on July 28, 1902. His father was Simon Siegmund Carl Popper, a wealthy, successful lawyer. His mother was Jenny Schiff, a talented amateur pianist. Both of his parents were converts from Judaism to Lutheranism.Jim Clarks BiographyFame TV2021-06-15 | ...Harper Lees BiographyFame TV2021-06-15 | ...Marc Benioffs BiographyFame TV2021-06-15 | ...Theodor Schwann Biography | Animated Video | Founder of Modern HistologyFame TV2021-03-27 | Theodor Schwann was born in Germany’s oldest city, Neuss, on December 7, 1810. He was the fourth son of Elisabeth Rottels and her husband Leonard Schwann, a goldsmith and publisher.
Theodor attended the Tricoronatum – a Jesuit college in Cologne. There he was influenced by the religious doctrines of Wilhelm Smets. He remained a devout Roman Catholic throughout his life.Stephen Colbert Biography | Animated Video | Famous American comedianFame TV2021-03-26 | Stephen Tyrone Colbert was born in Washington, D.C., the youngest of 11 children in a Catholic family. He spent his early childhood in Bethesda, Maryland. Colbert's father, James William Colbert Jr., was an immunologist and medical school dean at Yale University, Saint Louis University, and finally at the Medical University of South Carolina, where he served as vice president for academic affairs and his mother, Lorna Elizabeth Colbert (née Tuck), a homemaker. Colbert grew up with his 10 siblings on James Island, South Carolina.Will Smith Biography | Animated Video | Famous American ActorFame TV2021-03-25 | Willard Carroll Smith Jr. Known simply as Will Smith, was born September 25, 1968, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to a U.S. Air force Veteran Willard Carroll Smith Sr., and his wife, Caroline Smith.
Will who was raised a Baptist, attended Our Lady of Lourdes, a catholic elementary school in Philadelphia. When he was 13 years of age, his parents separated and never divorced until 2000.
Will grew into his teenage years as an MC, forming a duo hip-hop group D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, with him being the Fresh Prince and his childhood friend Jeffrey being the D.J. Jazzy Jeff who also served as the producer.Oliver Cromwell Biography | Animated Video | Renowned English StatesmanFame TV2021-03-21 | Oliver Cromwell was born on April 25, 1599, in Huntingdon, and was the son of Robert Cromwell and Elizabeth, his second wife. He studied at the Huntingdon Grammar School and at the Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, but dropped out in June 1617, after his father's death, without graduating.
In 1620, on August 22nd, Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, with whom he had nine children, and was brought into a relationship with Oliver St. John and the leaders of the London merchant community, as a result of his marriage.Richard Trevithick Biography | Animated Video | Inventor of Steam LocomotiveFame TV2021-03-20 | British inventor and mining engineer, Richard Trevithick was born on 13 April 1771 in Cornwall, England to Richard Trevithick Snr, and Ann Teague, and was the youngest of six children. As a child, Richard was sent to school at Camborne but was not much of a school enthusiast, which made him concentrate more on sport than schoolwork, as he was more of an athlete. He was once described by one of his schoolmasters as "a disobedient, slow, obstinate, spoiled boy, frequently absent and very inattentive." Although when it came to arithmetic, he showed great knowledge and interest.John Locke Biography | Animated Video | Father of LiberalismFame TV2021-03-19 | John Locke was baptized on the same day of his birth on 29 August 1632, by the Church in Wrington, at a small thatched cottage. He was the son of Puritans, John Locke Snr, and Agnes Keene. His father was an attorney who also served as a clerk to the Justices of Peace in Chew Magna. Locke attended the prestigious Westminster School of London in 1647, with the sponsorship of a member of the Parliament, Alexander Popham. From there, he attended the Christ Church, Oxford, in 1652. Although Locke was a brilliant student, he had no interest in undergraduate studies at the time and preferred the works of Rene Descartes and other modern philosophers.Vladimir Lenin Biography | Animated Video | Russian RevolutionaryFame TV2021-03-13 | Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who later adopted the name Lenin, was born on 22 April 1870 in Streletskaya Ulitsa, Simbirsk (present-day Ulyanovsk) to Ilya Nikolayevich Ulyanov and Maria Alexandrovna Blank. As a child, Lenin was said to be extremely competitive and destructive. He was also a good sportsman who spent most of his time playing chess and other outdoor games. Despite this, he was excellent with his studies in school.Thales of Miletus Biography | Animated Video | One of the Legendary Seven Wise MenFame TV2021-03-12 | Thales was born into a privileged family in the ancient Greek city of Miletus in about the year 624 BC. His father’s name was Examyes and his mother’s name was Cleobuline. He was born in the same era as Aesop, famous for his fables.
When Thales was born, Miletus was one of the wealthiest and most powerful of all the Greek cities. Today it is located on the coast of Turkey.Pythagoras of Samos Biography | Animated Video | Founder of PythagoreanismFame TV2021-03-11 | Pythagoras of Samos is often described as the first pure mathematician. He is an extremely important figure in the development of mathematics yet we know relatively little about his mathematical achievements.
Pythagoras's father was Mnesarchus, while his mother was Pythais and she was a native of Samos. Mnesarchus was a merchant who came from Tyre. As a child, Pythagoras spent his early years in Samos but travelled widely with his father.Plato Biography | Animated Video | Inventor of a Theory of VisionFame TV2021-03-08 | Plato was born into an aristocratic family that was influential in its days. His father, Ariston, was a descendant of Codrus, the king of Athens, and Melanthus, king of Messenia, while his mother Perictione was of a famous family. There is little known about the exact date of Plato’s birth due to a lack of surviving accounts, but based on ancient sources, it is believed that Plato was born in Athens or Aegina, between the years 429 BC and 423 BC. Neanthes states that Plato was six years younger than Isocrates, which makes his year of birth 429 BC as that was the date, Pericles, an Athenian statesman died. Johnathan Barnes states that Plato was born in 428 BC, while Apollodorus of Athens argued in his chronicles that Plato was born on the 88th Olympiad, a claim that is supported by Suda and Sir Thomas Browne.J .R .R Tolkien Biography | Animated Video | Famous English writer and ScholarFame TV2021-03-07 | John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born in 1892, Bloemfontein, South Africa to Arthur and Mabel Tolkien. After spending three years in South Africa, Tolkien returned to England with his family. The following year, his father died, leaving him and his brother to the care of Mabel, his motherRalph Lauren Biography | Animated Video | Billionaire BusinessmanFame TV2021-03-06 | Ralph Lauren was born Ralph Lifshitz in the Bronx, New York City, on October 14, 1939, the third of four siblings. His parents Frieda and Frank were Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants who had fled Belarus, and the youngster grew up in the Mosholu Parkway area of the family's adopted borough. His father was a house-painter. Ralph became interested in clothes when he was in seventh grade. While attending DeWitt Clinton High School in New York, he worked part-time for New York department stores, saving his money to buy clothes. At the age of 16, Ralph and his brother Jerry changed their last name to Lauren after having been teased consistently at school. Another brother, Lenny, retained the family name.Elizabeth Hurley Biography | Animated Video | Millionaire ActressFame TV2021-03-05 | Elizabeth Jane Hurley born in Basingstoke, Hampshire on June 10, 1965, is the younger daughter of Angela Mary and Roy Leonard Hurley. She attended Harriet Costello School and later enrolled for ballet classes to fulfil her aspiration to be a dancer while taking Sociology, English and Psychology courses at her sixth form. But Hurley was a wild girl; as a result, she was expelled three years into her studying dance and theatre at the London Studio Centre after dyeing her hair pink with nose piercing and running away to a Greek Island.
Hurley had a great look and figure that got her a modelling gig as an Estee Lauder spokesmodel, though she had no prior modelling experience. She remained the face of Estee Lauder until 2001 when she was replaced. However, she held her modelling contract with the company sixteen years running and has appeared in ads for Lauder’s products and also participated for Lauder’s other cosmetic campaigns.Gautama Buddha Biography | Animated Video | Founder of BuddhismFame TV2021-03-04 | Siddhartha Gautama, famously known as the Buddha, was born around c. 480 BCE into an aristocratic family of the Shakya clan. According to the tradition of the Buddhist, Buddha was born in Lumbini, modern-day Nepal, and grew up in Kapilvastu, he was schooled into his enlightenment in Bodh Gaya. Buddha was a mendicant, mediator, philosopher, and spiritual leader that lived in Ancient India. He was said to have renounced his life after several years of mendicancy, asceticism, and meditation. He was awakened to the understanding that mechanism keeps people trapped in the cycle of birth.Louis Pasteur Biography | Animated Video | Father of MicrobiologyFame TV2021-03-03 | Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dole, located in the Jura region of France. He grew up in the town of Arbois, and his father, Jean-Joseph Pasteur, was a tanner and a sergeant major during the Napoleonic Wars.
Pasteur was an average student skilled at drawing and painting. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree (1840) and Bachelor of Science degree (1842) at the Royal College of Besançon and a doctorate (1847) from the École Normale in Paris.Alan Turing Biography | Animated Video | The Father of Modern Computer ScienceFame TV2021-02-03 | Alan Mathison Turing was born to Julius Mathison Turing and Ethel Sara Turing in Maida Vale, London, on June 23, 1912. In the early part of his childhood, Turing showed signs of the genius that he later became. He attended the St. Michael’s day school at age six, and went on to Hazelhurst Preparatory School in Sussex between 1922 and 1926, at what time he was 16 years old. He then attended the Sherborne boarding school, and his first day for school was the day of the 1926 General Strike in Britain. In his determination, he rode to school unaccompanied.Winston Churchill Biography | Animated Video | The Most famous British Prime MinisterFame TV2021-02-02 | Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was born on November 30, 1874, at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England to Lord Randolph Churchill and Jeanette "Jennie" Jerome. Churchill’s father was a British statesman and his mother, an independent-minded New York socialite. He grew up in Dublin, Ireland, where his father was employed by his grandfather, the 7th Duke of Marlborough, John Spencer-Churchill. Right from an early age, young Churchill displayed the diplomatic traits of his parents. He was an independent and rebellious student. He was not particularly an erudite scholar in his first two schools. However, in April 1888, he began attending Harrow School, a boarding school near London and joined the Harrow Rifle Corps – a path that prepared for military.J.J. Thomson Biography | Animated Video | Father of ElectronFame TV2021-02-01 | Joseph John Thomson was born on December 18, 1856 in Manchester, England, UK. His father, Joseph James Thomson, ran a specialist bookshop that had been in his family for three generations. His mother, Emma Swindells, came from a family that owned a cotton company. Even as a young boy, Joey, who would later be known as J. J., was deeply interested in science. At age 14 he became a student at Owens College, the University of Manchester, where he studied mathematics, physics, and engineering. A shy boy, his parents hoped he would become an apprentice engineer with a locomotive company. These hopes were dashed with the death of his father when J. J. was 16. The fees for engineering apprenticeships were high, and his mother could not afford them.Brock Lesnar Biography | Animated Video | Famous Professional WrestlerFame TV2021-01-24 | Brock Edward Lesnar was born on July 12, 1977, to Stephanie and Richard Lesnar in Webster, South Dakota. He is the third child out of 4 children. Lesnar grew up in his parent’s dairy farm in Webster. Lesnar joined the Army National Guard at age 17, where he was assigned to an office job after his red-green colourblindness was considered dangerous to his aspiration to work with explosives. He lost the job after failing a computer typing test and worked for a construction company thereafter.Kiran Shaw Biography | Animated Video | Billionaire Chairperson of BioconFame TV2021-01-23 | The Indian billionaire Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw was born on 23 March 1953 in Pune, Maharashtra State to parents of Bengali descent. Kiran attended Bishop Cotton Girl's High School and graduated in 1968. Thereafter, she went to the Mount Carmel College, Bangalore, which was an affiliate of the Bangalore University. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Zoology from Bangalore University in 1973, having also studied biology. Although she had hoped to study medicine, it was not possible because she did not get a scholarship.Napoleon Bonaparte Biography | Animated Video | Conqueror of Europe in the Early 19th CenturyFame TV2021-01-22 | Napoleon Bonaparte was named Napoleone di Buonaparte at birth and was born on August 15, 1769, at 'Casa Buonaparte', the ancestral family home. He was the son of Carlo Maria di Buonaparte and Maria Letizia Ramolino and was baptized as a Catholic. During his childhood, Bonaparte was mostly influenced by his mother, who instilled firm discipline in him, restraining him from being an unruly child. Due to his fairly noble and affluent family background, he was afforded an education that was not readily available to most Corsican of the time.Zora Neale Hurston Biography | Animated Video | World-renowned Writer and AnthropologistFame TV2021-01-21 | Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1898, in Eatonville, Florida. Her parents were Reverend John and Lucy Hurston – former slaves. She was the fifth of seven children. Her mother was Lucy who had taught before marriage and after marriage too. Her father was a Baptist minister who served three times as a major of Eatonville.Jean-Jacques Rousseau Biography | Animated Video | Influential 18th-Century PhilosopherFame TV2021-01-20 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born to Suzanne Bernard Rousseau and Isaac Rousseau, in Geneva, on the 28 of June 1712. At his birth, Jean was sickly and had little hope of surviving, especially after his mother's death nine days after his birth. Something he would later describe as "the beginning of my misfortune."
Jean was then brought up by his father, along with his elder brother Francois. Their father employed the help of his late wife's sister, also called Suzanne to help take care of the boys. Although they had been living in the upper-class neighbourhood, which was given them by his mother's wealthy parents, they had to move out into an apartment house in a neighbourhood of watchmakers, craftsmen, and silversmiths, after their father sold the house and retained the proceeds, which was originally meant to be shared among the boys.Steve Forbes Biography | Animated Video | Editor-in-Chief of ForbesFame TV2021-01-19 | Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes Jr. was born on July 18, 1947, in Morristown, New Jersey, and grew up in the affluent suburb of Far Hills, New Jersey. He is the son of longtime Forbes magazine publisher Malcolm Forbes and the grandson of a Scottish immigrant named Bertie Charles Forbes, who founded the magazine in 1917.Johann Sebastian Biography | Animated Video | One of the Greatest Composers of all TimeFame TV2021-01-18 | Johann Sebastian Bach was born to Johann Ambrosius Bach and Maria Elisabeth Lammerhirt on the 21 of March 1685, in Eisenach, capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, which is present-day Germany. He was born into a musical family, with his father being the director of the town musicians. His uncles were also professional musicians, who played as chamber and court musicians, composers, and church organists.Rene Descartes Biography | Animated Video | Father of Modern PhilosophyFame TV2021-01-17 | Rene Descartes was born in La Haye en Touraine, France, on 31 March 1596, to Joachim and Jeanne Brochard, who died shortly after giving birth to him. Rene was admitted to the Jesuit College Royal Henry-Le-Grand in 1607, where he learned mathematics, physics, and the works of Galileo. In 1614, Rene graduated and went on to attend the University of Poitiers from 1615 to 1616, where he earned a Baccalaureat in canon and a Licence in civil law. After that, he relocated to Paris to become a military officer. In line with this, he joined the Protestant Dutch States Army as a mercenary in 1618, under the command of Maurice of Nassau. He also undertook studies in military engineering at this time.Mary Barra Biography | Animated Video | Highest-paid Auto CEO in the worldFame TV2021-01-16 | Mary Teresa Barra, the chair and CEO of General Motors Company was born on 24th December 1961. She was born into a Finnish lineage of Royal Oak, Michigan, the village of Kankaanpaa in Satakunta, the former capital city of Koylio. Mary’s father, Ray Barra, married a younger Finnish American named Eva Pyykkönen. Mary’s father worked for 39 years at the Pontiac car factory in Detroit, and the family lived in Waterford, Michigan. Mary attended Waterford schools in Michigan. She graduated from Waterford Mott High School.Michelangelo Biography | Animated Video | Famous SculptorFame TV2021-01-15 | Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni, known simply as Michelangelo, was born to Ludovico di Leonardo Buonarroti Simoni and Francesca di Neri del Miniato di Siena, in a small town of Valtiberina, near Tuscany, on the 6 of March 1475. After the birth of Michelangelo, his family returned to Florence until the death of his mother in 1481, when he was six years. He went to live with a nanny and her husband, who was in the profession of stone cutting in Settignano. His father also owned a marble quarry and a small farm in the town; it was there that Michelangelo grew his interest and love for marble.Charlemagne Biography | Animated Video | Founder of the Holy Roman EmpireFame TV2021-01-14 | Charles the Great was the King of the Franks from 768, the king of the Lombards from 774, and the Emperor of the Romans from 800. On April 2, 748, he was born to Pepin the Short and his wife Betrada of Laon and was named Charles at birth. He was later nicknamed Charles le Magne (Charles the Great), which became Charlemagne in English. Charles was considered to have been an illegitimate son because his father married Betrada four years after Charles was born, but this did not exclude him from the succession after his father. On September 24, 768, Pepin died, passing his kingship jointly to his sons with divine permission. Charles and his younger brother Carloman were both given the ranks of king. The kingdom was partitioned equally to them by the Franks.Michael Johnson Biography | Animated Video | Millionaire Olympic AthleteFame TV2021-01-09 | Michael Duane Johnson was born on September 13, 1967, in Dallas, Texas to Paul Johnson, a truck driver and Ruby Johnson, a school teacher. Michael attended the Skyline High School in Pleasant Grove, Dallas, where he broke the school record for the 200-meter run and the 4X400 metre relay. At age ten, he had started running and went on to win several titles for indoor and outdoor sprints and relays at Baylor University.Christiane Amanpour Biography | Animated Video | Chief Correspondent for CNN InternationalFame TV2021-01-08 | Christiane Maria Heideh Amanpour was born on January 12, 1958, in London to Patricia Anne (Hill) and Mohammad Taghi Amanpour. Her father was a Persian Muslim from Tehran and her mother a Catholic. Amanpour was raised in Tehran until age eleven and attended her elementary education there until age 11 when she was sent to England to attend the Holy Cross Convent School in Buckinghamshire; she later went to the New Hall School.Akon Biography | Animated Video | Millionaire MusicianFame TV2021-01-07 | Akon, born Aliaume Damala Badara Akon Thiam was born on April 16, 1973, in St. Louis, Missouri. His parents are of African descent, his father Mor Thiam, a famous jazz percussionist, is part Dogon of the Mali ethnic group and Senegal, his mother, Kine Thiam a dancer is Senegalese.
When he was young, his family moved back to Dakar, Senegal where they stayed till he was seven years. After that, they moved to Union City, New Jersey. Akon, as he is popularly called, learned to play the guitar, djembe, drums and other instruments at a young age, his love for music began when he would hear his parents play at home. New Jersey did not give him such ease, as he had difficulties getting along with the other children. At the stage where he was in William Dickson High School, his parents left Akon and his older brother in Jersey City by themselves. They relocated the rest of the family to Atlanta, Georgia.Conan OBrien Biography | Animated Video | Famous Television HostFame TV2020-12-22 | Conan Christopher O'Brien was born on April 18, 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts. He is the third of six children. His father, Dr Thomas O'Brien, is a noted epidemiologist, the head of microbiology at Peter Brigham Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and his mother, Ruth Reardon O'Brien, was a partner at Ropes & Gray law firm outside Boston until her retirement in 1997. Conan has three brothers: Neal, an antique car collector; Luke, a lawyer and Justin, a business consultant, and two sisters: Kate, a teacher; and Jane, a scriptwriter.Harry S. Truman Biography | Animated Video | 33rd U.S. PresidentFame TV2020-12-21 | Harry S. Truman was born on May 8, 1884, in the farm community of Lamar, Missouri, to John Truman and Martha Young Truman. Harry’s father was a livestock trader. In 1890, the Trumans settled in Independence, Missouri, where Harry attended school. He excelled in his studies. Young Harry had to wear thick eyeglasses due to poor vision, and his doctor advised him not to play sports in order to avoid breaking them. This dashed the hopes of the young lad to attend the U.S. military academy at West Point.Neil deGrasse Tyson Biography | Animated Video | Famous Black American AstrophysicistFame TV2020-12-20 | American cosmologist, science communicator, and astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson was born on October 5, 1958, in Manhattan, to Sunchita Maria Tyson and Cyril deGrasse Tyson. Tyson grew up in the Castle Hill neighbourhood of the Bronx, and studied at Riverdale Kingsbridge Academy, and later at the Bronx High School of Science. During his days in high school, Tyson was captain of the school wrestling team, the editor-in-chief of the Physical Science Journal, and developed an interest in astronomy after he visited the sky theatre of the Hayden Planetarium, where he also took astronomy classes, which he described as "the most formative period" of his life.Bret Hart Became Biography | Animated Video | Millionaire Heavyweight ChampionFame TV2020-12-19 | Canadian-American Bret Sergeant Hart was born in Calgary, Alberta, on July 2nd, 1957, as the eighth child of wrestling patriarch Stu Hart and Helen, his wife. While he was still a child, Hart watched his father train would-be wrestlers in their house basement and often hand out fliers for local wrestling shows before he left for school. His first wrestling job at the age of four was pulling out a metal box during intermission at Stampede Wrestling shows. At the age of nine, he had started training while attending the Ernest Manning High School. He was a standout amateur wrestling division student who won significant championships, including the City Championships in Calgary, 1974.Karl Marx Biography | Animated Video | Famous German PhilosopherFame TV2020-12-17 | German philosopher, historian, economist, and sociologist Karl Heinrich Marx, was born on the 5th of May 1818 to Heinrich Marx and Henriette Pressburg, in Trier, part of the then kingdom of Prussia. There is little knowledge of Marx's childhood, who was the third of nine children and was privately educated in 1830 by his father. He then attended the Trier High School in October 1835, and later left for the University of Bonn. Marx's intention was to study literature and philosophy at the university, but his father insisted that he studied Law instead, yet while at the University, Marx joined the poets club and also the Trier Tavern Club drinking society, where he served as the club's co-president.Plato Biography | Animated Video | Famous PhilosopherFame TV2020-12-16 | Plato was born into an aristocratic family that was influential in its days. His father, Ariston, was a descendant of Codrus, the king of Athens, and Melanthus, king of Messenia, while his mother Perictione was of a famous family. There is little known about the exact date of Plato’s birth due to a lack of surviving accounts, but based on ancient sources, it is believed that Plato was born in Athens or Aegina, between the years 429 BC and 423 BC.