World of faces

Unlike Galsworthy, his contemporaries Shaw and Wells understood that the bourgeoisie is hostile to the interests of the people and its domination must come to an end. They were worried about the future of humanity.
Bernard Shaw was born on July 16, 1856 in Dublin, into a poor family. He had to start working life early. As a young man, he moved to London, where he became close with the progressive people of the era and became a socialist. True, his program for the development of human society was idealistic and non-viable, but socialism in his eyes was the goal that people would achieve sooner or later. This conviction grew stronger in him after the October Revolution. He became a friend of Soviet people, defended the first socialist state from the slander of the reactionary press, propagandized the successes and achievements of the USSR.
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Langston Hughes was an American poet, novelist, playwright and columnist. He is known as one of the leading and influential writers of the cultural movement Harlem Renaissance and the discoverer of “jazz poetry.” Hughes left an extremely rich legacy in many different genres: poetry, romance, autobiographical prose, stories, plays. He collaborated with newspapers, often publishing there a series of satirical essays in which the main character was black citizen Simple.
James Mercer Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. The boy was the second child into a poor family of school teacher Caroline Mercer Langston and her husband James Nathaniel Hughes. From parents Langston inherited Negro, European and even Indian roots. The boy grew up in the ghetto.
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The English seeress Jeane Dixon (1918-1997) enjoyed extraordinary popularity in the middle of the last century.
Little Jeane, at the age of five, predicted what gifts the guests would bring, knew when someone from her family would die … When the girl was eight years old, her mother led her to a famous fortune teller. Looking at the palm of the girl, she said: “Your daughter will be a great seeress. Such lines occur once in a thousand years.”
Soon, little Jeane learned to get information from the future using a crystal ball. At first, she spoke about future events only to those close to her. But her fame grew, and in the 1940s, when she married and moved to Washington, even the powerful people of the world began to ask her about the future.
In November 1944, American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt invited Jeane. During their first meeting, Roosevelt asked how much time he had to complete the job. “Less than six months, Mr. President,” Jeane replied. On April 12, 1945 Roosevelt died.
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Francis Chichester has become a symbol of strong spirit and dedication. His love for the sea still inspires sailing lovers, and his around-the-world solo trip in 1966-1967 was called “the voyage of the century”.
Francis Charles Chichester was born in 1901 in Devon county into an aristocratic family. From the age of six he lived at a boarding school, then he studied at Marlborough College. At the age of 18, Francis emigrated to New Zealand, taking with him only £ 10. There he worked as a lumberjack, gold miner, sold newspapers, was an agent in a real estate company. It was real estate trading that enabled him to earn £ 10,000 and Chichester returned to the UK in 1929.
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Wolf Messing was one of the most famous predictors of the 20th century. You know, he met with Einstein and Freud, predicted defeat to Hitler in the World War, communicated with Stalin and Beria, with the leaders of the CPSU and even received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. But, as those who knew him closely said, this unique person was intended for other purposes that he never achieved …
The uniqueness of Wolf Messing manifested itself in the first years of his life, when it turned out that the boy, who was born in a Jewish family in 1899 in Poland, suffered from sleepwalking. His parents put a basin with cold water in front of his bed, the boy stepped into the water and instantly woke up. This radical remedy helped him.
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The name Citroën is not French, but Dutch and comes from the word “lemon”. Citroën’s great-grandfather came with a cart to the port, filled it with citrus, brought from overseas colonies, and cheerfully rolled it across Amsterdam. You know, he was the first in the family to be given a surname. The lemon business was going well and his son Barend Citroën went into the jewelry business as Amsterdam became a center for cutting and selling diamonds. And Barend taught his son this profitable craft. During one of his visits to Warsaw the businessman met charming Masha Kleinman, persuaded her to become his wife and moved to Paris. She became the mother of Levi Citroën. Levi was a member of the Paris elite. His partners and friends called him Louis, Louis Bernard Citroën.
All his life he had dreamed of a business that combined three processes: the extraction of diamonds, their processing and sale. And finally, that day was near. The exact date of the purchase of diamond-bearing sites in South Africa had already been appointed, but the deal fell through at the last moment.
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Osceola was a military leader of the Native American people, Seminole. In the 1830s he fought against the U.S. government, because they wanted the Seminole to leave their homeland in Florida.
Osceola was born in 1804 in Georgia. His mother was a Native American, member of the Creek nation. A white Scottish trader, William Powell, became his mother’s second husband. The family moved to northern Florida and joined the Seminole when Osceola was a boy.
In 1819 Spain sold Florida to the United States and this opened the fertile lands of the Seminole for white Americans. Later, in 1823, an agreement was signed according to which the Seminole had to leave the coastal territories and move inland, to the marshy lands of central Florida, which were not suitable for habitation. Osceola spoke out against it and was sent to prison. After the release he organized a fighting force. The warriors killed the U.S. official and the Seminole chief who had signed the treaty. So the Second Seminole War began in 1835. Resistance lasted almost two years.
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