Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642, in Woolsthorpe England. He was born the same year Galileo died. Newton is clearly the most influential scientist who ever lived. His accomplishments in mathematics and physics laid the foundations for modern science and revolutionized the world. As a mathematician, Newton invented calculus, and with the help …
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man’s work, everyone knows that its impact on the world of science is astonishing. Yes, many have heard of Albert Einstein’s General Theory …
Material on the Life of Charles Darwin Charles Darwin was born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. He was the son of Robert Waring Darwin and his wife Susannah and the grandson of the scientist Erasmus Darwin. His mother died when he was eight years old, and he was brought up by his sister. He was taught the …
Overview of Galileo’s Life as a Scientist Galileo Galilei was born near Pisa on February 15’ 1564. As he grew up he was taught by Monks and entered into the University of Pisa. At the University of Pisa, he studied Mathematics and he got a very high degree. After he graduated, around 1609 when the …
I was born on April 26th, 1932 in Blackpool, England. My childhood went by quickly. I was very bright in elementary school. My family wasn’t to rich, so I didn’t have the option to go to a private school. Luckily I earned a Scholarship to Arnold School. And although I didn’t like my peers, I …
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Charles Robert Darwin was born in 1809 and lived until 1882. He was a British scientist, who laid the foundation of modern evolutionary theory. He believed that all life was developed through natural selection. His work influenced modern sciences. Darwin was born in England, on February 12, 1809, he was born into a rich family …
Charles Darwin was born on Feb. 12. His full name is Charles Robert Darwin. He died on April 19, 1882. Darwin was an English naturalist known for his theory of evolution and for its operation, known as Darwinism. His evolutionary theories, mostly in two works: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection …
Of all the scientists to emerge from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, there is one whose name is known by almost all living people. While most of these do not understand this man’s work, everyone knows that his impact on the world is astonishing. Yes, many people have heard of Albert Einsteins General Theory of …
Obscure Achiever In our nation’s great history, there have always been those who have achieved greatness but are not recognized. One such person is the scientist and planter William Dunbar. Not much is known about William, what is known is as follows. During the year 1749, William Dunbar was born in and lived near Elgin, …
Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822, in Dôle, a small town in France. He grew in a humble family and his father was a tanner. He graduated in 1840 from the College of Arts at Besancon and entered the prestigious Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, to work for his doctorate degree. He chose for …
Stephen Hawking: A Life in Science depicts the life and accomplishments of Stephen Hawking, a unique and towering figure in modern physics, perhaps the most famous scientist since Einstein. He has achieved far more than the vast majority of able-bodied people would ever have dreamed of accomplishing. He has made fundamental breakthroughs in cosmology and, …
Galileo, an Italian physicist, and astronomer was born at Pisa on February 15, 1564, and died at Arcetri, near Florence, January 8, 1642. In 1581 he entered the University of Pisa to study medicine and the Aristotelian philosophy, but soon abandoned medicine for mathematics and physical science. In 1585 he left the university and went …
Discovery and Basic Structure In 1655, the English scientist Robert Hooke made an observation that would change basic biological theory and research forever. While examining a dried section of cork tree with a crude light microscope, he observed small chambers and named them cells. Within a decade, researchers had determined that cells were not empty …
African Americans have played an important role in the history and culture of the United States since it’s founding. These individuals were doctors, writers, inventors, as well as many other notable professions. There have been hundreds of unacknowledged African Americans that have done great things over the years, and it is about time that these …
Assessing the impact of corruption on India’s polity and administrative service over the last quarter century has enabled me to gauge the progress made by India’s politicians in tackling one of the country’s biggest problems. In analyzing the impact of corruption on India’s polity over the last 25 years, I highlight corrupt practices by Indian …
Thomas Hutchinson, chief justice and lieutenant governor of Massachusetts, despite his goal to prevent the passage of the dreaded Stamp Act, was violently hated by the people of Boston. In the middle of dinner on August 26, 1765, the most violent mob in the history of America attacked the mansion of Governor Hutchinson. If he …
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John Adams, who became the second president of the United States, has been accused by some historians of being the closest thing America ever had to a dictator or monarch (Onuf, 1993). Such strong accusations should be examined in the context of the era in which Mr. Adams lived and served. A closer examination of …
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Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. “People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity,” he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became …
Historian Stuart Ewen proposes his idea that the history of style in his essay, “The Marriage between Art and Commerce”, is the crucial turning point of what shapes our culture and everyday life. Ewen’s concept of style in the 19th – 20th century is a combination of modern art and a business device. He describes …
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By November 1976, Rene Levesque was already a mythic figure in Quebec. A full-blown star for twenty years, first as a television host and then as the most outspoken member of the Liberal cabinet of Jean Lesage from 1960 to 1966, he projected a personality that seemed transparently honest, impulsive, mischievous, modest, outspoken, and provocative. …
Lorenzo Valla was born into an affluent Roman family in 1407, and died there in 1457. Valla was a humanist as well as a philosopher, philologist, priest and author. Valla single-handedly disproved the dubious, yet sacred document enabling the Papacy to own territory in Constantinople in his book, Falsely-Believed and Forged Donation of Constantine, or …
Maya Angelou is one of the most moving, talented writers of our time. She has so many sides to her as a person that play into her writing and teachings. I have for a long time revered the lady for her passion and ability to portray feeling in words to her reader. I was turned …
Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland on November 29, 1898, Clive Staples (“Jack”) Lewis was raised in a very educated home, one in which the reality he found on the pages of the books within his parents’ extensive library seemed as tangible and meaningful to him as anything that transpired outside their doors. As adolescents, Lewis …
Through the centuries, decades, and years the world has come by many amazing authors and poets but there are always that select renowned few that will stick out in your memory, one of which being Thomas Stearns Eliot. As you read on you will be taken through the journey of T.S. Eliot’s amazing and intriguing …
Stephen King an American author has truly made a significant impact on today’s readers. King can turn marital stress, peer pressure, or adultery into a terrifying epic that would make your skin crawl. Stephen Edwin King was born September 21, 1947, in Portland, Maine. Stephen’s birth was a tremendous surprise to his parents as they …
The short lived life of Jack London is a direct reflection of his literary works major theme, the struggle for survival of strong men driven by primitive emotions. “To Build A Fire” and White Fang are two of his works that coincide with his life experiences and illustrate his literary theme. London was born the …
Born February 27, 1902, to a County Treasurer and a schoolteacher, John Steinbeck was raised in the small town of Salinas, California. With no more than a population of 2500, this rural farming community influenced and formed many of John Steinbeck’s stories. Being the third of four children and the only boy, John Steinbeck discovered …
Arthur Miller was born in New York City on October 17, 1915. He was the second of three children. In growing up, Miller was more interested in his athletics than his curriculum. He was then rejected from the University of Michigan in 1932. Since his scholarship was out of reach he started to progress into …
Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874. He moved to New England at the age of eleven and became interested in reading and writing poetry during his high school years in Lawrence, Massachusetts. He was enrolled at Dartmouth College in 1892, and later at Harvard, but never earned a formal degree. Frost drifted …
Jan Berenstein was born on July 26, 1923, in Pennsylvania. Her husband and partner Stan Berenstein was born on September 29, 1923, also in Pennsylvania. They met at the Philadelphia College of Art. In one of their classes, the students were to pick the charcoal drawing they thought was best from all of the ones …
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