# 5 – Lakshmi Bai, the Rani of Jhansi
In the 100 years between the mid-19th and mid-20th century, in direct response to the injustices of the colonial administration, a thread of rebellion came into being in India that [...]
# 4 – Albert Kahn
If a person’s life could be summed up in a series of concise chapters, Albert Kahn’s would have two. The first involved earning a fortune, becoming highly educated, mingling with [...]
# 3 – Roger Casement
On June 29th, 1916 Roger Casement stood in the dock facing the jury who had just convicted him of treason. He was speaking (he said) not to those present in [...]
# 2 – Alexander von Humboldt
Alexander von Humboldt cuts a lonely historical figure. In the years after his death he slipped rapidly out of public consciousness: from daring adventurer, pre-eminent natural historian, political progressive and [...]
#1 – Lord Kelvin
He looms over the modern world as a Victorian renaissance man - a scientist par excellence, and an object lesson in life lived fully and lived well....
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