Austrian-Swedish physicist Lise Meitner is known for leading a group of scientists, along with Otto Hahn, who were the first to discover that when it absorbed a...
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (Leo Tolstoy) was a renowned Russian author and one of the greatest authors of all time. He is best known for his two novels War ...
After being accused of whistling at a white female grocery store cashier, Carolyn Bryant, the young Emmett Till was brutally murdered by Bryant's husband and br...
Following the American Revolutionary War, Nathanael Greene was considered to be the most gifted and dependable officer to General Washington, having started off...
From 1533-36, Anne Boleyn was the Queen of England. She was the second of Henry VIII’s six wives. On May 19, 1536, she was executed in the Tower of London. She ...
Anne Brontë was the youngest member of the Brontë family. Born in 1820, she only lived to be twenty-nine, dying in 1849. She and her sisters, Charlotte and Emil...
Carrie Chapman Catt was a notable women's suffragist. She campaigned heavily for the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. She was also the ...
Thomas Paine is perhaps best remembered for his influential pamphlets written at the start of the American Revolution, Common Sense (1776) especially. He was an...
On April 18, 1906, disaster struck Northern California at 5:12 a.m. when a huge earthquake hit. It was an estimated 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale. It was fe...
Born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben, Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was a military officer in the American Revolution from Prussia. ...
