This document contains brief biographies of several famous individuals: - Edward Verrall Lucas was a British journalist who worked for the Daily News and Globe newspapers and also contributed to Punch magazine. - Laurence McKinley Gould was an American geologist, educator, and polar explorer who led an expedition to Antarctica from 1928-1930. - O. Henry, whose real name was William Sidney Porter, was a popular American short story writer in the early 20th century known for his tales of ordinary people.

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2. Edward verral Lucas was born at Brighton.
He was educated at the University of London.
He started his career as a journalist in the
newspaper, Daily News.
Later he worked for the Globe.
Lucas, also contributed articles to the Punch and
soon became its assistant editor.

3. Laurence Mckinley Gould was born on August 22,
1896.
He was an American geologist, educator and polar
explorer.
During 1928 to 1930 he went on an expedition to
Antartica with a team of scientists.
Gould published a number of scientific articles during
his life time.

4. William sidney Porter popularly known by his name
O. Henry was a popular American short story writer
of the 20th century.
He was born on September 11, 1862 in Greensboro,
North Carolina.
In 1902, he moved to New york city and wrote
hundreds of short stories.
They mostly deal with ordinary people.

5. Helen Adams Keller was born in Tuscumbia in
Alabama, on June 27,1880.
She was a normal child upto nineteen months.
She was then afflicted with a brain and stomach
fever.
The illness took a heavy toll I her life.
Helen Keller became blind, deaf and mute.

6. John Henry Newman best known as Cardinal
Newman was essentially a religious character and an
imortat figure in the history of Religion in England.
Newman was born in London on the 21st, February
1801, as the eldest son of john Newman, a banker.
Newman was educated at Oxford.
In 1845, he joined the Roman Catholic Church.

7. Rabindranath Tagore is undoubtedly one of the
greatest writers of modern India.
Born in Calcutta of a wealthy family, he showed
interest in literary creation in his early childhood.
In 1913 he received the Nobel Prize for his writings,
particularly ‘Gitanjali’, which is considered to be
masterpiece.

8. Submitted by,
M. Sathyabama