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Celebrated in the United States and in various countries around the world, March is Women's History Month. In this post, you'll discover seven influential women who’ve left their mark in various frontiers.
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During Suleiman I's reign, the Ottoman empire extended from Morocco in the East to the tip of Arabia in the Indian Ocean.
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Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born on October 11, 1884 to Elliott Roosevelt and Anna Hall. She worked on social, education, and cultural issues and in 1947 was elected head of the 18-nation U.N. Human Rights Commission. She even published her own newspaper column, called “My Day,” which ran in newspapers across the country, six days a week for nearly 30 years.More
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This week's LinkedIn newsletter features Warren Buffett. He believes that a prudent investor should be more concerned about what’s going on inside of a business than in the stock market.
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Carter G. Woodson, one of the first African-Americans to graduate from Harvard University with a doctorate degree, is credited with establishing Black History Week (then called “Negro History Week”) in 1926, designed to highlight and celebrate the Black experience. Since then, U.S. presidents have proclaimed February as National Black History Month. In this post, you discover seven influential women of African descent who have left their mark in shaping Black history.More
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This week’s “Notable People in History” newsletter features Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates. who started the company with the vision of putting a personal computer on every desk and in every home.
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Frances Ellen Watkins was an African American lecturer, poet, abolitionist, suffragist, and reformer born September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland. She emphasized that Black women were facing the double burden of racism and sexism at the same time, therefore the fight for women’s suffrage must include suffrage for African Americans.More
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This week’s LinkedIn newsletter, which has been renamed “Notable People in History,” features Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, who as a toddler, took a screwdriver to his crib, taking it apart, feeling that he was too old to sleep in a “baby” crib.
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In 1903, Maggie Walker founded the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank, offering checking and savings accounts, mortgages, and loans to provide economic empowerment to women and help strengthen Richmond's emerging black middle class.
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We'll explore the life of Elon Musk, the South African entrepreneur involved in reinventing automotive, aerospace, solar energy, energy storage, satellite, high-speed ground transportation and multi-planetary expansion.
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What did I learn while researching Chiune Sugihara's life? I learned that in school, the students were taught a code that had three laws: 1) Don’t be a burden to others; 2) Take care of others; 3) Do not expect rewards for your goodness. I learned that it’s always possible to stand up for what you think is right… but what made Hitler think that he was in his actions?
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Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Ross around 1820 in Bucktown, Maryland. She would escape to Pennsylvanian in 1849 and return to Maryland to free her family and others for the next ten years through the Underground Railroad.
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Discover more about Stefan Banic, the Slovakian immigrant who patented then donated an early parachute to the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation and the Army Signal Corp.
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Discover more about Garrett Augustus Morgan... the African-American inventor who patented the first traffic signal in the United States and a breathing device to protect firefighters, a precursor to the modern gas mask.
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Sojourner Truth was born Isabella Baumfree around 1797 in New York to Dutch slaveowners, the Hardenberghs. Overcoming the challenges of slavery, illiteracy, poverty, prejudice, and sexism in her own lifetime, she worked for freedom, to end racism by mobilizing thousands to support the abolition of slavery and support women's suffrage.More
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Known as Michanikos, the Machine Man, little is known with certainty about the life of Heron of Alexandria, including the period in which he lived. What is known, is that he was familiar with the works of Archimedes, Philo of Byzantium, and other Greek inventors.
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During his lifetime, Ctesibius is credited with the invention of the Hydraulis (circa 270 B.C), conducted siphon experiments that advanced steam mechanics further with a broad array of devices created by Hero of Alexandria (10-70 A.D). He is credited with having invented the first “toothed wheel” found in his water clock invention, and may have been the director of the Engineering School of Alexandria during the time of Ptolemaîos Philádelphos (who reigned from 283 to 246 B.C).
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On August 7, 1945, Lise Meitner received a call from a reporter with a Swedish newspaper. He would tell her that the first uranium bomb had been used over Hiroshima. Said to be the equivalent of 20,000 tons of ordinary explosives, the bomb had destroyed five square miles of Hiroshima, killing between 70,000 to 100,000 people. A second would be dropped on Nagasaki with similar consequences.More
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In honor of Black Poetry Day, today's post shares a poem written by Litha Sovell of the Green Belt Movement in Tanzania. The holiday was enacted to celebrate Jupiter Hammon who is considered the first published black poet in the United states, born on the 17th of October 1711.More
