Whilst Galileo did not propose his own model of the Universe, his observational, experimental and theoretical work provided the conclusive evidence need to overthrow the Aristotelian-Ptolemaic system. His work on forces was to help Newton develop his dynamics. Galileo died in 1642, the year that Newton was born. Newton was…
Democritus was an ancient Greek philosopher. He and his mentor, Leucippus, are widely regarded as the first atomists in the Grecian tradition. Democritus believed that atoms were uniform, solid, hard, incompressible, and indestructible and that they moved in infinite numbers through empty space until stopped. Differences in atomic shape and…
LeBron James never played college basketball. He was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers directly out of high school in 2003. But under the current eligibility rules, established two years after James went pro, players need to be 19 before they can enter the NBA. LeBron James became an immediate star…
Robin Williams later provided a voice in A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), which was also about a robot who wanted to be human. Tim Allen was considered for the role of Andrew, but turned it down due to his commitment on Galaxy Quest (1999). Robin Williams spends the first half of…
For someone who understood the varieties of love so well, it seems that Emily herself never knew romantic love. She was happiest in her own company, or with her beloved sister Anne. Emily Bronte never married, nor does she appear to have had any romantic attachments. It certainly wouldn’t be…
Rose was eight years younger than Brice, and four inches shorter, but when they married, she was by far the better-known celebrity, with her husband sometimes being referred to as “Mr. Fanny Brice.” Brice biographer Herbert G. Fanny and Nick are married and move into a mansion on Long Island.…
Many of the Founding Fathers were influenced by the humanitarian eighteenth-century philosophers, notably the Italian Cesare Bonesana Beccaria and the Frenchman Baron Charles-Louis de Montesquieu, who opposed capital punishment as monarchical and contrary to true liberty. Enlightened reformers moved away from corporal punishment, seeking to design a penal system that…
Ziggurats were built in Ancient Mesopotamia while pyramids were built in Ancient Egypt and Southern America. In terms of building location, ziggurats were mostly built somewhere within the Ancient Mesopotamian region (Sumer, Babylon & Assyria) corresponding to modern-day Iraq and part of Syria whereas pyramids were the infrastructures built in…
The couple settled in Cleveland, Ohio with Langston and his younger brother, Gwyn. Hughes was fiercely independent from an early age. When his mother and brother followed his stepfather who occasionally left the family in search of higher wages, Langston stayed in Cleveland to finish high school. After the death…
According to Porphyry, Pythagoras married Theano, a lady of Crete and the daughter of Pythenax and had several children with her. His mother’s name was Pythais. Pythagoras had two or three brothers. Some historians say that Pythagoras was married to a woman named Theano and had a daughter Damo, and…