Born in Ontario and educated at McGill University, Dr. James Naismith invented the game of basketball in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Mass., and developed basketball’s original 13 rules Author of ...

In an address delivered in a San Francisco masonic hall in 1913, Russell made positive use of masonic imagery by saying, "Now, I am a free and accepted mason. I trust we all are. But not just after ...

Born Adolph, he changed his name to Arthur during World War I but was known professionally as Harpo. The second oldest of the four Marx brothers comedy team, Harpo rarely if ever spoke while in ...

William John Chetwode Crawley, for many years Head Master of the Queen’s Service Acadamy, Dublin, was, after a lengthy university career, elected a life member of the senate of Trinity College, Dublin ...

Johann Christopher Friedrich von Schiller’s major poetic and dramatic works — Die Räuber (1782), Don Carlos (1787), Wallenstein Stuart (1800) and Wilhelm Tell (1804) — all express a yearning for ...

In 1882 Samuel Mathers was admitted to the Rosicrucian Society of England (SRIA) where he met Dr. Woodman and Dr. Westcott who commissioned his English translation of Knorr Von Rosenroth’s Latin ...

Founder of the Red Cross, a founder of the Young Men’s Christian Association, and co-winner of the first Nobel Prize for Peace in 1901, he also worked to bring about the 1864 Geneva Convention. In Un ...

Born in Newry, Ireland, at the age of ten he moved to Quebec City with his parents. He was called to the bar in Canada East in 1858 and three years later in Upper Canada. Moving to the Cariboo in 1862 ...

Abraham Stoker was born near Dublin, Ireland, graduating from Trinity College with honours in mathematics. In 1872, Stoker published his first melodrama, The Crystal Cup, a dream fantasy. While ...

The Rev. Dr. William Stukeley was a medical doctor, Anglican priest, field archeologist and antiquarian.

Lawyer and Dean of Law at McGill University, John Joseph Caldwell Abbott was elected as Conservative MP in 1857 and appointed to the Senate in 1887. On June 13, 1891 he was chosen as caretaker Prime ...