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Image of movable type in the modern age as invented by Johannes Gutenberg, responsible for the invention of the printing press in Europe c. 1440's.

An 1889 photograph of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97). (New York Public Library Archives)

An 1894 photograph taken by Rudolf Krziwanek of (on the left) the Austrian composer Johann Strauss II (1825-99) and the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97).

The grave of the German composer Johannes Brahms (1833-97) in the central cemetery of Vienna, Austria.

House of Col. Johannes Hardenbergh, 1903. Hardenbergh was the master and owner of Sojourner Truth (known as Isabella Bomefree until she changed her name in 1843) from her birth on his land c. 1797 until his death in 1806. Illustration from...

Leo Africanus (al-Hasan ibn Muhammad ibn Ahmad al-Wazzan al-Fasi al-Granati, 1485-1554) was a diplomat, merchant traveller and scholar who famously voyaged from Timbuktu to the Niger River and wrote 'The Description of Africa' (La Descrittione...

Galla Placidia (388-450 CE), the future empress, was the half-sister of the Westen Roman emperor Flavius Honorius (r. 395-423 CE), and the daughter of Theodosius the Great (r. 379-395 CE). She was taken hostage by Alaric during the sack of...

The astronomers of the Scientific Revolution rejected long-held theories of ancient thinkers like Claudius Ptolemy and Aristotle and instead set out to systematically observe the heavens in order to create a model of the universe that fit...

Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a Danish nobleman who made the most significant contribution to our knowledge of astronomy before the telescope arrived. He discovered a supernova, observed the elliptical interplanetary orbit of a comet, updated...

The arrival in Europe of the printing press with moveable metal type in the 1450s CE was an event which had enormous and long-lasting consequences. The German printer Johannes Gutenberg (c. 1398-1468 CE) is widely credited with the innovation...