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Edward Elric was eleven years old when he committed the greatest sin in alchemy: human transmutation. He and his brother Alphonse tried to bring their dead mother back to life. The result was not thei...
Read article →Izuku Midoriya, known as Deku, is the protagonist of My Hero Academia (Boku no Hero Academia), a manga and anime series created by Kohei Horikoshi. Born without a Quirk (superpower) in a world where 8...
Read article →Izuku Midoriya was born without a Quirk in a world where eighty percent of the population has superpowers. He was diagnosed quirkless at age four — the same age children typically manifest their abili...
Read article →Okabe Rintarou is the protagonist of Steins;Gate, a visual novel (2009) and anime series (2011) created by 5pb. and Nitroplus. He is a self-proclaimed mad scientist who accidentally invents a time mac...
Read article →Okabe Rintarou calls himself Hououin Kyouma — the Mad Scientist — and speaks into a turned-off phone about conspiracies that do not exist. He wears a lab coat he bought at a thrift store. He cackles d...
Read article →Simone Weil (1909-1943) was a French philosopher, mystic, political activist, and writer. She is known for her radical commitment to experiencing the suffering of others — working in factories, fighti...
Read article →Simone Weil was a French philosopher, mystic, and political activist who worked in factories, fought in the Spanish Civil War, and refused to eat more than the rations available to French soldiers whi...
Read article →Eren Yeager is the protagonist of Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin), a manga and anime created by Hajime Isayama. He begins the series as a passionate young soldier determined to destroy all Titans...
Read article →Eren Yeager begins Attack on Titan as a ten-year-old boy watching his mother eaten alive by a Titan. He screams that he will kill every last one of them. Ten years and four seasons later, he has becom...
Read article →Howl Jenkins Pendragon is the male lead of Howl's Moving Castle, both Diana Wynne Jones's 1986 novel and Hayao Miyazaki's 2004 Studio Ghibli film adaptation. He is a powerful wizard who lives in a mag...
Read article →Howl Jenkins Pendragon is a powerful wizard who lives in a castle that walks on mechanical legs and is fueled by a fire demon named Calcifer. He is devastatingly handsome, dramatically vain, and compl...
Read article →Mob (real name Shigeo Kageyama) is the protagonist of Mob Psycho 100, a manga and anime created by ONE (also the creator of One Punch Man). Mob is a middle school student with extraordinarily powerful...
Read article →Shigeo Kageyama — Mob — is the most powerful psychic in Mob Psycho 100 and possibly the most powerful character in anime. He can level buildings, create force fields, and at full power can warp realit...
Read article →Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was an Austrian composer widely regarded as one of the greatest musical geniuses in history. He composed over 600 works in his 35 years of life, including 41 sympho...
Read article →Captain Jack Sparrow is a fictional character portrayed by Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean film franchise, beginning with The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003). He is the eccentric, often in...
Read article →Captain Jack Sparrow staggers, slurs, and appears to have no idea what is happening at any given moment. This is a performance. Beneath the rum-soaked exterior is one of the most cunning strategists i...
Read article →Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895) was an American abolitionist, social reformer, writer, orator, and statesman. Born into slavery in Maryland, he escaped at age 20 and became one of the most prominent...
Read article →Frederick Douglass was born into slavery, never knew his exact birth date, was separated from his mother as an infant, and was beaten regularly by overseers. He taught himself to read by trading bread...
Read article →Marie Curie (1867-1934), born Maria Sklodowska in Warsaw, Poland, was a physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity. She is the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two diff...
Read article →Marie Curie is the only person in history to win Nobel Prizes in two different sciences — Physics in 1903 and Chemistry in 1911. She discovered two elements. She pioneered the theory of radioactivity....
Read article →Elizabeth Bennet is the protagonist of Pride and Prejudice (1813) by Jane Austen. She is the second of five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Bennet, a gentry family in rural England. Elizabeth is known for h...
Read article →Elizabeth Bennet is the second of five daughters in a family that will lose its home when her father dies because the estate is entailed to a male cousin. Her mother is desperate to marry them all off...
Read article →Dr. Seuss was the pen name of Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991), an American children's author, illustrator, and cartoonist. He wrote and illustrated over 60 books, including The Cat in the Hat, Green...
Read article →Theodor Seuss Geisel wrote The Cat in the Hat because he was annoyed. In 1955, a Life magazine article reported that American children could not read because their textbooks were boring. Geisel's publ...
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