An equally important blow was struck by an Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi in the 18th century. Agnesi was the first woman to write a mathematics textbook and to be appointed to a ...

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Founding Father advocated for American independence in an oration commemorating the ...

Committee chair Coun Richard Williams, who had also attended the public meeting, said: “It’s moving at a great pace to a great place.” He said that the plan to include a Changing Places ...

Members of the committee included every big-name actor in town. Have any of you ever watched a documentary of one of the great social movements, like Apartheid, or civil rights movement ...

A powerful orator, Garnet helped shift the landscape on the abolition of slavery from trying to convince enslavers of the wrongs of the practice to one that called for resistance from those in ...

It can be seen as a performance. And most leaders do, in fact, rise to their positions by being great orators. But the true art of leadership is not in speaking, it’s in listening. Listening is ...

We found quite a few interesting things at the Great American Outdoor Show.

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