By 1895, William Edward Burghardt Du Bois became the first African-American to earn a doctorate (PhD) at the Harvard University. Indeed, his doctorate thesis titled “The Suppression of the African Slave Trade in America” was the first book to be published by the University’s Press by 1896. First PhD: also…
Who is the first boy to die on the island? One of the “littluns”—the boy with the mulberry-colored birthmark—is the first boy to die. The first boy to die in Lord of the Flies is known only as “the boy with the mulberry birth mark”. He is the one who…
Founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright as an imprint of their publishing company Boni & Liveright, Modern Library became an independent publishing company in 1925 when Boni & Liveright sold it to Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. The extent of their specific duties is unknown. Sometime in…
The Mesha Stele bears the earliest known reference (840 BCE) to the Israelite God Yahweh. The earliest written form of the Germanic word God comes from the 6th-century Christian Codex Argenteus. The first were certainly “nature gods”: the sun, the moon, the sky, the earth. Man’s first gods were invented…
Called the father of empiricism, Sir Francis BaconSir Francis BaconBacon has been called the father of empiricism. He argued for the possibility of scientific knowledge based only upon inductive reasoning and careful observation of events in nature.https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Francis_BaconFrancis Bacon – Wikipedia is credited with establishing and popularizing…
“[Haides] the father of the Eumenides [Erinyes].” Statius, Thebaid 11. The Erinyes were born as the result of a crime; hence their close association with familial crimes, for the three sisters were born when the blood of Ouranos fell onto Gaia, after Ouranos had been castrated by his own son…
The theory of evolution is a shortened form of the term “theory of evolution by natural selection,” which was proposed by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel WallaceAlfred Russel Wallace was born in Wales in 1823. He has been described variously as a naturalist, a geographer, and a social…
Hindustani classical music is the classical music of northern regions of the Indian subcontinent. It may also be called North Indian classical music or, in Hindustani, shastriya sangeet ( śāstriya saṅgīt ). Its origins date from the 12th century CE, when it diverged from Carnatic music, the classical tradition of…
However, four individuals are considered the founding fathers of ancient geography due to their contributions to the discipline; Eratosthenes, Strabo, Claudius Ptolemy, and Muhammad al-Idrisi. 4. Eratosthenes Eratosthenes was a 2nd century BC Greek scholar who is credited as the founder of the discipline of geography. As mentioned above, Greek…
Archimedes is known as the Father Of Mathematics. He lived between 287 BC – 212 BC. Syracuse, the Greek island of Sicily was his birthplace. Archimedes was serving the King Hiero II of Syracuse by solving mathematical problems and by developing interesting innovations for the king and his army. “Mathematics…