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Our goal here is to create a database of famous individuals from European History, created by the students for others to read and comment on. It is by no means designed to be a definitive or expert collection but rather a work in progress. All of the students are editors and contributors and we hope that it will grow, year by year, and be of some use both to the education of these students in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, but for others as well.

Please feel free to read through our various pages and leave constructive comments and criticisms so that they can be improved upon.

Regards, Sean Heaney Teacher St. Ignatius of Loyola Catholic Secondary School Oakville, ON Canada

Louis the XIV: An Absolutely Fabulous Monarch Napoléon Bonaparte From Emperor to Exile: The Victories of Napoleon Bonaparte Marie Curie: The Secrets Within Catherine II of Russia: She Really Was Great! Antonio Vivaldi Claude Monet - The Classical Impressionist Oliver Cromwell - King in all but name Virginia Woolf - A Literary Genius Victor Hugo Rene Descartes - " I think, therefore I am" Charles De Gaulle - "How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?" Mary Wollstonecraft Alexandrina Victoria Alan Turing Charles I Vladimir Lenin Albert Einstein Joseph Stalin Christopher Columbus - "No one expected the Spanish Inquisition" Anne Boleyn - A quest for power leads to the ultimate downfall Maximilien Robespierre Revolutionary or Madman? Leonardo da Vinci - A Man Ahead of His Time Queen Elizabeth I Adolf Hitler- One People, One Empire, One Leader Winston Churchill Karl Marx - The Father of Communism Peter the Great - Is he the Greatest Man Alive? Francis Bacon - "Knowledge is power" Charles Edward Stuart Vlad the Impaler Martin Luther Cosimo de' Medici - Master of Florence