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Young Neil deGrasse Tyson was starstruck when he first visited the sky theater at the Hayden Planetarium in New York City.

It's no secret that Beethoven went deaf, that Mozart had constant money problems, and that Gilbert and Sullivan wrote musicals.

Most people can name some famous artists and recognize their best-known works.

Marie Curie died in 1934 of radiation poisoning, from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered.

America is a nation of immigrants. By land, air, and sea, people have come to the United States seeking a better life and more opportunities.

Most people know about President FDR, but do you know the woman who created his groundbreaking New Deal? As a young girl, Frances Perkins was very shy and quiet.

Discover how animals influenced twenty of the world's most beloved authors, from Charles Dickens to J. K. Rowling.

Sure, almost all kids know Benjamin Franklin as one of America's Founding Fathers, a man with a hand in both the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution.