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Raised to respect and love people no matter their religion, social status and beliefs, Irena Sendler was a Catholic social worker who saved thousands of Jewish children during the Holocaust. She passed away in 2008 but is a massive inspiration for many people for her courage, kind- heart and resilience.  Irena Sendler was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1910 on 15th February. Her father, Dr. Stanisław Krzyżanowski, was the only local docter. During the typhus epidemic of 1917, he went out and treated the communities who lived in poverty, mainly Jews. Unfortunatly, when Irena was just seven years old, he passed away due to typhus. She later recalled her father saying, on his deathbed: "If you see someone drowning, you must try and save them. Even if you cannot swim.". After Dr. Krzyżanowski's death, the Jewish community leaders offered Irena's mother, Janina, the money to pay for Irena's education, however Janina declined this offer.   When Poland went under Na...

After the reign of Mary I 1553- 1558, the infamous queen was nicknamed: Bloody Mary. This is because, during her five year rule, she executed a rough recording of 280 'heretics'. A 'heretic' is a person that openly disagrees with the religion of a country and its ruler.  However, her father Henry VIII had a 38 year reign with an estimated 72, 000 people he executed, yet he is not remembered because of how many people he had put to death.  If Queen Mary burnt 280 Protestants in her five year reign, then she executed roughly fifty- six people per year and about four people each month. Compare those statistics to King Henry who executed about 1, 894 people every year then about 157 people a month. Please remember that these are average statistics. Maybe people remember her as 'bloody' because of the short length of her reign? Mary's beliefs of Catholicism at that time was that, after her younger brother Edward VI had England converted to Protestantism...