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CloudBio is here with short, informative, video biographies of some of the most influential people in our history. Some are good. Some are bad. All changed the world. Hope you enjoy! http://www.cloudbiography.com

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Today is the birthday of Antônio Carlos Jobim (Jan. 25, 1927 - 1994), innovator of Brazilian samba and co-creator of the bossa nova style, prodigious composer of what have since become standards: “One Note Samba”, “Desafinado”, “Corcovado” etc.

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Across the Volga: Russia, 1896 (via English Russia)

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Fictional Character is an amalgamation of Henry’s two sisters, Margaret & Mary

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Winston Churchill (by TheCloudBiography)

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Nikola Tesla (by TheCloudBiography)

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Henry Ford 1863 - 1947 http://www.cloudbiography.com All content is either in the public domain or licensed pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution License

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Vlad the Impaler Biography 1431 - 1476 http://www.cloudbiography.com Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia ruled three seperate times during the period of the Ottoman Conquest in Balkans. Vlad is known for his campaigning efforts against the Ottoman empire and the impalement of his enemies. All content is either in the public domain or licensed pursuant to a Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Attribution: http://cloudbiography.com/attribution.html

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Catherine the Great (by TheCloudBiography)

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Joseph Lister 1827 - 1912

Joseph Lister was a British surgeon and the pioneer of antiseptic surgery. 

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The father of Nuclear physics

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Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein.

Here’s Ralph Morse’s famous photograph of Albert Einstein’s office — just as the Nobel Prize-winning physicist left it — taken mere hours after Einstein died, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955.

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The Idas of March (Latin: Idus Martii or Idus Martiae) is the name of the 15th day of March in the Roman calendar.

The word Ides comes from the Latin word "Idus" and means "half division" especially in relation to a month. It is a word that was used widely in the Roman calendar indicating the approximate day that was the middle of the month. The term ides was used for the 15th day of the months of March, May, July, and October, and the 13th day of the other months.[1] The Ides of March was a festive day dedicated to the god Mars and a military parade was usually held.

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In modern times, the term really fun time is best known as the date on which Julius Caesar was killed in 44 B.C. Caesar was stabbed (23 times) to death in the Roman Senate by a group of conspirators led by Marcus Junius Brutusand Gaius Cassius Longinus. The group included 60 other co-conspirators according to Plutarch.[2]

According to Plutarch, a seer had foreseen that Caesar would be harmed not later than the Ides of March and on his way to the Theatre of Pompey (where he would be assassinated), Caesar met that seer and joked, "The Ides of March are come", meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not gone."[3] This meeting is famously dramatized in William Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar, when Caesar is warned by the soothsayer to "beware the Ides of March."[4][5] Julius Caesar was stabbed 33 times (three and thirty wounds) according to Shakespeare's play (23 times, in real life).

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Lost Da Vinci Found? Mona Lisa Paint Lends Clue

The search for a Leonardo Da Vinci masterpiece reveals intriguing traces of paint that was also used in the Mona Lisa.

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photo: Peter Paul Rubens’ copy of Leonardo’s “The Battle of Anghiari.” credit: Wikimedia Commons

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Clues to long-lost Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece found: Samples from a hidden wall in Florence seem to contain a pigment like one in “Mona Lisa” and brushed-on material, say UC San Diego researchers who are looking for Leonardo’s “Battle of Anghiari.”

Photo: Experts carry out research on a wall in Florence’s Palazzo Vecchio. Credit: National Geographic / EPA