Encyclopedia of Trivia

EARLY LIFE  John Wycliffe was born in the village of Hipswell near Richmond in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England in around 1320. ...

The religious philosopher John Toland was born in Ardagh on the Inishowen Peninsula in northwestern Ireland on November 30, 1670. Hav...

Charles Spurgeon was born on June 19, 1834, in Kelvedon, in the English county of Essex. He was the eldest child of Eliza Jarvis and Joh...

A left wing modernist, The Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, John A.T. Robinson (May 16, 1919- December 5, 1983) was a major force in promoting...

EARLY LIFE  Joseph Priestley was born on March 24, 1733, to an established English Dissenting family in Fieldhead, Birstall, – about six...

EARLY LIFE  Saint Paul was born in the city of Tarsus–one of the largest trade centers on the Mediterranean coast likely between the ye...

EARLY LIFE  Blaise Pascal was born on June 19, 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand, which is in France 's Auvergne region. Blaise Pascal Ve...