Dynamic Directory - July 24, 2025

Anne Hutchinson - and some of her children - died unfortunate deaths of mistaken identity in the summer of 1643.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of America's famous nineteenth-century thinkers and writers, endured a great deal of sadness in his life.

Johann Tetzel was a German Dominican friar who told people that if they bought indulgences, their sins would be forgiven.

Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first found him guilty of the charges, then condemned him to death.

Heinrich Karl Bukowski - better known as Charles Bukowski (or "Hank," to his friends and family) - was born in Andernach, Germany on the 16th of August, 1920.

Refusing to recant his beliefs, which were contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church, Jan Hus (John Huss) was burned at the stake outside the city walls of Konstanz (Constance).

On the 15th of June, 1520, Pope Leo X ordered Martin Luther to recant 41 of his 95 Theses and to stop preaching about those items in his sermons. Luther burned the edict, in public.

Huck Finn has a father who beats him.

After he leaves the house, around midnight, Huck Finn joins his buddy, Tom Sawyer.

Huck Finn's father - whom his boy calls "Pap" - has not been in his son's life for awhile.

This image depicts a plaster cast which copies a marble statue of Oinomaos, the father of Hippodameia.

Hera was the wife of Zeus, therefore queen of the gods of ancient Greece, according to Greek mythology.

Mark Twain published his famous book, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in Britain (in December of 1884) and in America (in February of 1885).

Huck Finn is sceptical about many things, but he is also a realist.

Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home.

When she was just a child, Katharina von Bora was sent to live in a convent (at Brehna, north of Leipzig) after her mother died. She later became the wife of Martin Luther.