Joseph Griesedieck was one of the most influential brewers in St. Louis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the 1880s to the 1910s, he helped run several city breweries. At the outset of Prohibition, he acquired the Falstaff label and built the Falstaff Corporation around it. After…
In the 1860s, Otto von Bismarck, then Minister President of Prussia, provoked three short, decisive wars against Denmark, Austria, and France, aligning the smaller German states behind Prussia in its defeat of France. In 1871 he unified Germany into a nation-state, forming the German Empire. The unification of Germany was…
A Jacobin (French pronunciation: [ʒakɔbɛ̃]; English: /ˈdʒækəbɪn/) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement that was the most famous political club during the French Revolution (1789–1799). The club got its name from meeting at the Dominican rue Saint-Honoré Monastery of the Jacobins. Jump to navigation Jump…
Robert Boyle was a physicist, natural philosopher, chemist and an inventor. Additionally, he became popular for the theological writings. Despite his study that was clearly entrenched in alchemical traditions, Boyle is now honored as the 1st contemporary chemist and as among the pioneers and founders of the recent chemistry and…
Richard Lewis (1807/8 – 13 August 1831), known as Dic Penderyn, was a Welsh labourer and coal miner who lived in Merthyr Tydfil and was involved with the Merthyr Rising of 3 June 1831. In the course of the riot he was arrested alongside Lewis Lewis, one of the primary…
In Roman mythology, Romulus and his twin brother Remus were the founders of the city of Rome. Unfortunately, Romulus became furious and killed his brother. Romulus became the ruler of this new city –Rome – which he named after himself. On April 21, 753 BCE, the city of Rome was…
When King Solomon married the daughter of the Egyptian Pharaoh, a sandbank formed which eventually formed the “great nation of Rome”—the nation that destroyed the Second Temple (Herod’s Temple). Solomon gradually lost more and more prestige until he became like a commoner. Solomon was the Pharaoh Ymn Htp III and…
Toward the end of her career those qualities were accentuated by a lighter palette and the use of a highly polished surface finish. Bonheur was trained by her father, Raymond Bonheur, an art teacher and a follower of the social theorist Henri de Saint-Simon. Did Rosa Bonheur attend art school?…
Pierre-Esprit Radisson. Written By: Pierre-Esprit Radisson, (born c. 1640, Avignon?, France—died c. 1710, England?), French explorer and fur trader who served both France and England in Canada. Arrival of Radisson in an Indian camp in 1660. Pierre-Esprit Radisson (1636/1640–1710) was a French fur trader and explorer. He is often linked…
There, Parks reconnected with her only sibling, Sylvester McCauley, and her nieces and nephews. They were her only family. The woman whose family called her “Auntie Rosa” was a soft-spoken person whom very few people actually knew. Who was Rosa Parks mom? Rosa’s Mother, Leona Edwards | Early Life and…