Whatever your goals in life, wherever your career takes you, an education will provide you with what you need to succeed. So whether your career follows a traditional path, or takes you to places you’ve never dreamed of, make it your business to succeed. I was going crazy trying to plan our financial future. It […] Read more

Reared in a deeply religious home, Gandhi received an indifferent formal education in India, and in 1888 began law studies in England. In quest of clerical work, he went to South Africa in 1893, and was shocked at the racial discrimination there. He became an advocate for his fellow Indians in South Africa, and undertook […] Read more

George Eastman set to work on simplifying the apparatus of photography and came up with the famous Kodak camera. The Eastman story was the stuff of legend. He was the poor widow’s son who started off as a $3 a week clerk, and by dint of hard work and phenomenal determination rose to vast fame […] Read more

It’s very clear. His songs are here to stay. He is one of the Country’s most beloved and prolific composers, and artist whose seemingly facile way with a tune call up images of starry Manhattan skylines, a top hat and tails, the perfect martini. Whether collaborating with brother Ira which he did much of the […] Read more

Georgia O’Keeffe revolutionized modern art, both in her time and in the present. And if we understand O’Keeffe’s emotional response to nature and her need to create an equivalent in art, we hold the key to her work. In the 1920s she explored this theme in her magnified paintings of flowers, meant to convey that […] Read more

Georgia O’Keefe’s rather ordinary childhood on a dairy farm in southern Wisconsin suggested little of the extraordinary life the future American painter would lead. Born November 15, 1887 in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin – a town of 900 near Madison — O’Keefe and her 6 siblings helped with chores on the large, prosperous farm every day […] Read more

Turning away from the privileged world of the “eminent Victorians,” Gertrude Bell explored, mapped, and excavated the world of the Arabs. Recruited by British intelligence during World War I, she played a crucial role in obtaining the loyalty of Arab leaders. After the war, she played a major role in creating the modern Middle East […] Read more

Gustave Flaubert lived most of his life in his country estate of Croisset, near Rouen, in Normandy. He followed a strict regimen of work over many years and produced, slowly and painfully, eight novels of which two or three are masterpieces (Madame Bovary, L’Education Sentimentale), and a volume of three stories (Trois Contes). Flaubert looked […] Read more

Houdini was the son of a rabbi who emigrated from Hungary to the United States and settled in Appleton, Wisconsin. He became a trapeze performer in circuses at an early age, and after settling in New York City in 1882, he performed in vaudeville shows there without much success. From about 1900, Houdini began to […] Read more