The Carlini Group, a fast-growing multimedia company spearheaded by musician and entrepreneur Charles Carlini, has launched a new online educational division that will focus on the art, science, music, literature, philosophy, architectural, political and economic world's leading historical figures.

    Simply Charly, a division of the Carlini Group, has just released the first nine of what is eventually to become dozens of Web sites dedicated to the masters of the art, music, science, literature, philosophy, architectural, political and economic worlds. Designed to make learning fun, these portals have a friendly caricature flavor to them while providing accurate background information on the historical figures they cover. 

   Currently the Carlini Group is covering legends such as Charlie Chaplin, Sigmund Freud, W.B. Yeats, Salvador Dali, Pablo Picasso, Le Corbusier, Igor Stravinsky, Albert Einstein and Karl Marx. The company has  dozens more planned for the near future, including Napoleon, Kafka, Elvis and Darwin.

    The mission of Simply Charly is to become a one-stop source for everything one desires to know about the groundbreaking individuals it covers. Inquiring minds seeking to learn more about the historical world's most notable movers and shakers can be made online. A few years back, a nonprofit organization that advocates for liberal arts subjects - the Council for Basic Education - conducted a study and 33 percent of school principals predicted that they would witness decreases in the time their districts devote to the arts over the next two years. This trend was even more highly anticipated in schools with large percentages of minority students, where 42 percent of principals made the same dire prediction.

    From that survey until today, those prognostications have, sadly, been becoming a reality in public schools across the nation. In the years that have past since then, liberal art subjects like foreign languages, music and art history have taken major hits but even other non-essential electives like political science and economics have experienced cutbacks.

    Simply Charly's founder, Charles Carlini, as a musician himself, was personally pained by this arts-related educational decline. Because of his deception, he decided that is time to do something about it. The Simply Charly portals more than live up to their fun and engaging mission.

    Carlini said: "I developed the Simply Charly suite of sites to be a fun, accessible, interactive and engaging learning experience. Designed for all ages, their aim is to buck the current educational trend that places an emphasis on reading, writing and math at the expense of art, music and other personally enriching electives."

    The first thing that websites’ visitors will notice greeting them is a lively caricature version of the historical figure they've come to learn about. From there, a clean layout with "About," "News," "Multimedia," "Works" and "Links" tabs points browsers to accurate and thorough coverage of the featured historical individual.

     Simply Charly wants to supplement in this way the liberal arts education that so many of today's public schoolchildren are missing out on. To accomplish this goal, the company has employed experts from the world's top universities to answer user-submitted questions, and answers to "Ask The Expert" requests will be supplied within 48 hours of receipt. In this way, education becomes entertainment, more accessible and fun in the same time.