Author Archives: Natalie

Born and educated in Russia, Zworykin immigrated to the United States in 1919 and became a citizen in 1924. While working for...

Ziegfeld started in show business in 1893 as the manager of Sandow, a strong man, and went on to produce extravagant Broadway revues that...

Zenger, publisher of a colonial newspaper called the New York Weekly Journal, was arrested in October 1734 on charge of “seditious...

Zappa was a prolific contemporary composer-performer more or less in the rock idiom, creating some 60 albums in his 30- year career. His...

With Frank and Jesse James, the Younger Brothers (Cole, Jim, John, and Bob) were the most celebrated and notorious bandits of the...

Young was a carpenter in Mendon, New York, near the church Joseph Smith had established. Young read the newly published Book of Mormon...

Wythe was admitted to the Virginia bar in 1746 and became active in the independence movement. A delegate to the Continental Congress, he...

Born and raised in Mississippi poverty, the grandson of slaves, Wright moved north during the Depression and began writing under the...

On December 17, 1903, at Kill Devil Hill, Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew a 750-pound aircraft he and his brother,...