Biography

Full name: Meriwether Lewis Date of birth: August 18, 1774 Place of birth: Locust Hill Plantation, Albemarle County, Colony of Virginia (now Ivy, Virginia) Date…

Full name: Thaddeus Stevens Date of birth: April 4, 1792 Place of birth: Danville, Vermont, U.S. Date of death: August 11, 1868 (aged 76) Place…

Hundreds of human remains have been discovered just off the Silk Road in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region’s deserts. The Tarim Basin mummies have now…

A long time ago, on December 25, a baby boy was born. He has no earthly father, but he continued to transform Western thought before…

A fascinating example of the dramatic changes that cross-cultural interaction can bring about in individual lives is Sake (Sheikh) Dean Mahomed (Bengali: শেখ দীন মোহাম্মদ;…

George Bernard Shaw is a remarkable playwright. He was born on July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland. His father George Carr Shaw was an unsuccessful…

The Archaea (Also known as Archea) are a group of single-celled organisms. The name comes from Greek αρχαία, “old ones”. They are a major division…

Biography of Guglielmo Marconi Guglielmo Marconi – Italian inventor, physicist and electrical engineer. Name: Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi Date of Birth: 25 April 1874 Place…

Biography of William Moulton Marston William Moulton Marston – American psychologist, inventor, author, and comic book writer. Name: William Moulton Marston Date of Birth: May…

Biography of Kate Gleason Kate Gleason – American engineer and businesswoman. Name: Catherine Anselm “Kate” Gleason Date of Birth: November 25, 1865 Place of Birth:…

Biography of Olive Dennis Olive Dennis – American engineer. Name: Olive Wetzel Dennis Date of Birth: November 20, 1885 Place of Birth: Thurlow, Pennsylvania, United…

Biography of William Edwards Deming William Edwards Deming – American engineer, statistician, professor, author, lecturer, and management consultant. Name: William Edwards Deming Date of Birth:…