Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim was born in America on February 5, 1840, emigrated to Britain 1881 and adopted British citizenship in 1899. Over his long career, Maxim is credited with over a thousand different inventions and received patents for 270 of them. He also designed a steam-fuelled aircraft, was named a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and claimed to have invented the light bulb.
KURSK, September 24 (RIA Novosti) - Several hundred people gathered in the Korennaya (Root) Hermitage in the Kursk Region in central Russia as the head of the Russian Orthodox Church consecrated a church.