Yesterday we learned that Plutarch wrote biographies of the men of Greece and Rome.  Historians throughout time have written grand histories—of World War II, of ancient Rome; of George Washington, and Cincinnatus; of lost civilizations, of kings, and popes and...

Plutarch said that “The world of man is best captured through the lives of the men who created history.”  He was a Greek historian who lived around 2,000 years ago, and is most famous for his work Parallel Lives, which is...

Vladimir Lenin was the founder of communist Russia and the Soviet Union.  He used lies about history to justify the evils of communism, and even once declared that “A lie told often enough becomes the truth.”  Lenin and his government...

Today is Martin Luther King, Jr. day—a day on which we remember Dr. King for the important role that he played in American history and, in particular, in holding our nation to its founding principle, as written in the Declaration...

You have probably heard of Albert Einstein.  You may even recognize him in a picture – crazy white hair, big bushy mustache.  Like many of the scientists we’ve discussed this week, he was genius whose contributions to human knowledge—particularly in...

Sir Isaac Newton was a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer in the sixteen and seventeen hundreds.  His contributions in multiple fields of science (as well as mathematics) are astounding.  To this day, we study how objects move using Newton’s laws of...

George Washington Carver was an agricultural scientist in America in the early 1900’s.  He was born into slavery but became free when he was just a few years old, after the abolition of slavery in 1865.  Through perseverance, a deep...

“The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have...

Francis Bacon lived in the 16th and 17th centuries, and made many contributions to Western thought in the fields of law, natural philosophy, and perhaps most notably in science.  He is often credited with development of the scientific method, which many of...