“He had very neat handwriting,” says Roni Grosz, curator of the Albert Einstein Archives, who knows Einstein’s penmanship like the back of his hand. “It’s not at all what you’d expect from a genius.” … “Even a hundred years ago,” he says, “people warned the typewriter would destroy handwriting.” Someone…
She met Cash in the 1950s, just as Country music was turning into Rock and Roll. He had been signed to the famous Sun record label and was on tour with the other Sun acquisition Elvis Presley. Did you know that Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash used to impersonate each…
Einstein’s memory was notoriously poor. He was unable to remember dates and could not remember his own phone number. 9 Things You May Not Know About Albert Einstein 1. Einstein didn’t fail math as a child. 2. No one knows what happened to his first daughter. 3. It took Einstein…
Despite the daunting task facing the Allies, the military leadership managed to plan and prepare for the eventual success of the Normandy invasion. Eisenhower skillfully navigated the various personality types of military commanders and politicians, and he approved the necessary plans for the operation. Who came up with the plan…
On a ranch in northwestern Sonora, Mexico, archaeologists have discovered 13,400-year-old weapons mingled with bones from an extinct elephantextinct elephantFrom the mid-Miocene onwards, most proboscideans were very large. The largest land mammal of all time may have been a proboscidean; Palaeoloxodon namadicus was up to 5.2 m (17.1 ft) at…
Here is a complete list of every Heisman Trophy winner since 1935 and the players that finished second and third each season. The award is given annually to the nation’s most outstanding football player. Alabama receiver DeVonta Smith won the 2020 Heisman on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021. Here are the…
While Eli Whitney is best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin, he was also the father of the mass production method. In 1798, he figured out how to manufacture muskets by machine so that the parts were interchangeable. Who invented the cotton gin and why? In 1794, U.S.-born…
Recovered from his injuries but still a stateless person with expired visas, Elie Wiesel naturalizes to the United States. La Nuit (appearing in 1960 in English translation as Night) is published, and has since been translated into more than 30 languages. Elie Wiesel, byname of Eliezer Wiesel, (born September 30,…
In May 1796, Edward Jenner found a young dairymaid, Sarah Nelms, who had fresh cowpox lesions on her hands and arms (Figure 3). On May 14, 1796, using matter from Nelms’ lesions, he inoculated an 8-year-old boy, James Phipps. Subsequently, the boy developed mild fever and discomfort in the axillae.…
Edwardian bathrooms featured oval-shaped clawfoot tubs with an even rolled trim all the way around, like this Cast Iron Clawfoot from Elizabethan Classics. Bathrooms were still large and made for family use during this period, but were very much in line with the overall aesthetic of cleanliness. The bathtub is…