Society

Chief Tecumseh was a leader of the Shawnee Native Americans, an iconic hero in history.

July 15, 2019 16:26

Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology.

July 15, 2019 16:26

Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.

July 15, 2019 16:24

Leonardo da Vinci is a famous figure in history for a vast variety of reasons.

July 15, 2019 16:21

Vasco de Gama was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.

July 15, 2019 16:19

Julius Caesar was a Roman politician, general, and author of Latin prose.

July 15, 2019 16:17

Richard Francis Burton was an English explorer, geography, translator, writer, solider, and ethnologist.

July 15, 2019 16:17

Konrad Adenauer was a German statesman who served as the first post-war Chancellor of Germany (West Germany) from 1949 to 1963.

July 15, 2019 16:16

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

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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