John Bonham – Rock’s Drummer Extraordinaire
Led Zeppelin are rightfully rock legends and one of the reasons for that is they had one of the greatest drummers in the world. In the video essay below by…
P. Ramlee: Malaysia’s Greatest Acting, Musical Son
If Malaysia had a "Walk of Fame", his star would be the shiniest—you know, polished by the tears of fans and lit by the flashes of their cameras. When it…
MLK: His “Dream” Lives On
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said. Decades…
JFK: The One Who Told Us To Put Country Before Self
"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country." — With those words, John F. Kennedy left an indelible mark on his fellow…
Winston Churchill: The Prime Minister Who Put Britain Before Everything
When you consider how many gut-wrenching decisions British Prime Minister Winston Churchill had to make during World War II -- many of which involved sending young men to their deaths…
Einstein: He Who Gave Us The Theory of Relativity, As Well As the Atomic Bomb
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Albert Einstein is known for introducing to mankind the theory of relativity. But there’s another theory he regrets pushing the world toward: the atomic bomb. A German…
Gandhi: The Mahatma Who Unified Protest & Peace
Sixty years after he was assassinated, some of Indian peace icon Gandhi's ashes were scattered in the Arabian Sea at the family's request and not publicly displayed. A small steel…
Thomas Edison: ‘Father of the Light Bulb’
Thomas Edison, America’s greatest inventor and one of its foremost entrepreneurs in the 19th century, developed many devices that greatly influenced life around the world, including the phonograph, the motion…
Abe Lincoln: Honesty & Equality In The Marrow
A “government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,” Abraham Lincoln, said, along with the ideal “that all men are created equal.” …
George Washington: He Who Defeated The British Army And Walked Away From a Third Presidency
Death was unlikely to have been on George Washington’s mind as he went out to check on his farms, as was his habit, on Thursday, December 12, 1799. His recent…