William Harvey, an English physician discovered how blood circulated around the body, with the heart pumping blood into the body through the arteries, and the blood returning back to the heart through the veins. 1665: The first successful blood transfusion was recorded. – The U.S. … – Edwin Cohn develops…
Cultural nationalism validates the importance of other cultures deemed by society as “other”. It gives black and brown people a sense of pride in being people of color in a white dominated society, which constantly seeks to normalize Eurocentric standards of both beauty and culture. Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) is…
Aryabhata, a great astronomer of the classic age of India was the one who invented the digit “0” (zero) for which he became immortal but later on is given to Brahmagupta who lived around a century later 22, another ancient Indian mathematician. The first numeral zero comes from a Hindu…
During World War II, Germany fought against the Allies or Allied Forces. The list is quite long, but the main countries included the U.S., Great Britain and the British Empire, USSR and France. See Sources and related links for a complete list. The two countries that fought in World War…
In the 1880s, the Harvard geographer William Morris Davis (1850–1934) began formulating a Cycle of Erosion to explain the temporal development of landforms. The periglacial cycle of erosion begins with a non-periglaciated landscape. Once-periglaciated mass wasting of regolith exposes bedrock in the upper slopes. These outcrops are then subject to…
The Malayan Campaign consisted of a series of battles fought in Malaya between Allied (mainly British Commonwealth) and Axis (primarily Japanese) forces. The campaign began on 8 December 1941 when Japanese forces landed in Singora and Patani in southern Thailand, and Kota Bharu in northern Malaya. The campaign began on…
The Long Parliament was an English Parliament which lasted from 1640 until 1660. It followed the fiasco of the Short Parliament, which had convened for only three weeks during the spring of 1640 after an 11-year parliamentary absence. In September 1640, King Charles I issued writs summoning a parliament to…
Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands established colonies in North America. Each country had different motivations for colonization and expectations about the potential benefits. The colonial history of the United States covers the history of European colonization of North America from the early 17th century until the incorporation of the…
The 1996 NFL Draft was held on April 20-21, 1996. A total of 254 players were chosen over 7 rounds. The New York Jets chose Wide Receiver Keyshawn Johnson from Southern California as the first pick in the draft. Future Hall of Famers Jonathan Ogden, Marvin Harrison, Ray Lewis, Brian…
In 1815, he financed a trip himself. The following year, Cuffe took 38 American blacks to Freetown, Sierra Leone. He died in 1817 before undertaking other voyages. Cuffe laid the groundwork for the American Colonization Society. GREAT BRITAIN’S SIERRA LEONE COLONY: DESTINATION AND MODEL FOR EARLY EMIGRATION MOVEMENTS,1787-1830. … BRITISH…