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  Maharaja Ranjit Singh Leader of All Time” Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the 19th century ruler of the Sikh Empire in India, has beaten competition from around the world against 19 renowned leaders like Winston Churchill Abraham Lincon, Queen Elizabeth 1, and many others. To be named as the "Greatest Leader of All Time", in world History. Maharaja Ranjit Singh was nominated by historian Matthew Lockwood – an assistant professor of history at the University of Alabama - for Establishing a "modern empire of toleration". Maharaja of Punjab received 38% of total votes to be named as the "Greatest Leader of All Time" So who was Maharaja Ranjit Sing, and how did he made such a great name for Himself? Early Childhood One of the greatest Indian Ruler, but even more than that he was a figure who is admired equally in both the rival countries of India and Pakistan. His near mythical rule of Tolerance and stability is an example for everyone around the world of how a l...

    Saint Thomas More “I die the king’s faithful servant, but God’s first” Introduction; Sir Thomas More adored in the Catholic church as Saint Thomas More. He was an English lawyer, judge, social philosopher, author, statesmen, and a Renaissance Humanist. He also served Henry VIII as Lord High Chancellor of England from 1529 to 1532. His famous book Utopia published in 1516 which has great importance to reform society. He opposed the Protestant Reformation and directing the polemics against the theology of Martin Luther and John Calvin . More also opposed the Henry VIII separation of Catholic church and refusing to acknowledge Henry as the Supreme Head of the church of England . After refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy he was convicted to treason and executed. Early Life and Career: Thomas born in the city of London on 1478 , son of Sir John More , a lawyer and later a judge. He was educated at St Anthony’s School . From 1490 to 1492 More served the John Morto...

               William Shakespeare   Shakespeare was a renowned English poet playwright and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “bard of Avon.” He was the most famous writer of Elizabethan age.   Early life: William Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564, in Stafford upon Avon a town in England. He was son of John Shakespeare and Mary Arden. He married a woman named Anne Hathaway at the age of 18 stop they had three children. After his marriage information about his life is considered a mystery. Generally scholars call this period as a "The lost years". But it is believed that he spent most of his life in London writing and performing in his plays. He studied Latin Greek history. He left his education at the age of 14. He settled in London by 1592 he became a well known as in playwright. Sha...

    Franciso de Zurbarna (1598 – 1664)                    Francisco de Zurbarán was a Baroque painter born in 1598 in a small town of Fuente de Cantos in Spain.who is most famous for his paintings of clergy members such as nuns and monks . Zurbarán was such a great painter that he has been nicknamed 'the Spanish Caravaggio'. He was also a friend and contemporary of the famous Baroque Spanish painter, Diego de Velázquez  Zurbarán was the leading painter in Seville. His pictures were mostly painted for Spanish religious orders. The distinctive style of Zurbarán was influenced by the realism of Caravaggio. His best work is both very direct and intensely spiritual.   Childhood               His parents were Luis de Zurbarán, a haberdasher, and his wife, Isabel Márquez.He was the youngest of six children - four bro...

    Orhan  1281 Sogut-1361 Bursa  was the Second  Bey, or Chief, of the nascent Ottomon Empire from 1324 to 1361. He was the son of Osman 1 and his mother was Mal Hatun, daughter of Abdulaziz Bey. Orhan Establishment of Ottomon Empire: In the early stages of his reign, Orhan focused his energies on conquering most of nnorthwestren Anatolia. The majority of these areas were under Byzantine rule and he won the first battle, the battle of Pelekanon, against the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos. Orhan also occupied the lands of Karesi Principally ruled by a Turkish Emir and of Ankara which was controlled by religious fraternity-guilds called Ahis. During the last years of the civil war in the Byzantine Empire, John VI Cantacuzene induced Orhan to marry Theodora, daughter of Cantacuzene, in order to support him in his aim to become the ruling Emperor, usurping Emperor John V Palaeologus. Passage of Power: When Orhan succeeded his Father, he pr...