Society

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

Though he is best known for his contribution in delineating the Mason-Dixon line, Charles Mason was also a successful scientist and geographer.

July 15, 2019 15:12

Saddam Hussein has a legacy of one of the most brutal rulers of the 20th century, the results of which are still felt to this day.

July 15, 2019 15:09

Arafat was a Palestinian political leader.

July 15, 2019 15:09

Mary Pickford, known as 'America's Sweetheart,' was was one of the earliest and biggest stars in the film industry.

July 15, 2019 15:07

Adolf Hitler was a German politician who was the leader of the Nazi Party and responsible for the atrocities of the Holocaust.

July 15, 2019 15:06