Society

Shakespeare was an English playwright, poet, and actor, widely recognized as the greatest writer in the English language

July 15, 2019 16:15

Florence Nightingale was born on May 12, 1820. She was an English statistician, social reformer and founder of modern nursing.

July 15, 2019 16:12

Samuel Mores was American painter and inventor. His greatest invention was the single-wire telegraph.

July 15, 2019 16:11

Nelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary.

July 15, 2019 16:11

Jane Jacobs was a journalist, author, and urban activist famous for her influential work entitled

July 15, 2019 16:10

Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect who had an extensive influence on modernist architecture.

July 15, 2019 16:08

Usain Bolt’s official full name is Usain St Leo Bolt. He was born in Jamaican in a town called Trelawny, on August 21, 1986.

July 15, 2019 16:04

Harriet Tubman escaped slavery herself to lead hundreds of others to freedom along the "Underground Railroad".

July 15, 2019 15:59

The 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner for his diplomatic efforts in the Middle East, Bunche would also support the Civil Rights movement back in his American home.

July 15, 2019 15:56

Born into slavery, Frederick Douglass would make himself into an academic, and an advocate for the rights of all.

July 15, 2019 15:52

She was the first African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School

July 15, 2019 15:51

The first African-American licensed to practice law, as well as the first to hold a judicial position, in the U.S.

July 15, 2019 15:37

Torquemada ushered in one of the saddest episodes in the annals of humanity: the Spanish Inquisition.

July 15, 2019 15:33

Perhaps the Lewis and Clark Expedition could not have been successful without the help from a Native American Lemhi Shoshone woman named Sacagawea.

July 15, 2019 15:31

Lawrence of Arabia was a key figure in the movement for Arab home rule and independence from Ottoman, and then Western European, foreign control.

July 15, 2019 15:28

Scottish-American naturalist John Muir helped set the American "preservationist" movement off in the right direction.

July 15, 2019 15:27

Gandhi's work in India would later inspire civil rights activists and fighters of social injustice around the world, including Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King, Jr.

July 15, 2019 15:26

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American clergyman, activist and prominent leader in the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.

July 15, 2019 15:23

Perhaps no one person had a greater impact on the Protestant Reformation movement in Western Christianity than a German by the name of Martin Luther.

July 15, 2019 15:19

Though he died relatively young, this scholar's work with Charles Mason resulted in one of the most important demarcation lines in American history.

July 15, 2019 15:14