Personalities

Mary Anning – The Girl Who Discovered Dinosaurs

Mary AnningThe Girl Who Discovered DinosaursImagine living in a small house by the sea. When you wake up in the morning, you hear the sound of waves, and the wind smells of salt and rain. That is exactly how Mary Anning grew up, in a small coastal town in England,...
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The Queen’s Hat

Many hundreds of years ago, when magnificent castles were being built across Europe and beautiful paintings adorned their walls, there lived a very special woman: Catherine de’ Medici. She was born in Italy, but as a young woman, she moved to France and married King Henry II, becoming the queen of the country.

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Gutenberg’s big dream

Over 500 years ago, there lived a man named Johannes Gutenberg. Have you ever heard of him?

He had an idea that would change the world: books should no longer be copied by hand, but printed with small metal letters onto paper.

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Leonardo and the Magical Lion

More than 500 years ago, in Italy – in the beautiful city of Florence, to be exact – there lived an extraordinary man who seemed almost like a real magician: Leonardo da Vinci. He was not only a great painter but also an inventor who dreamed up the most astonishing things – machines, bridges, and flying devices.

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