Originally posted 2017-10-18 02:14:38. Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution. Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and…

Originally posted 2017-09-12 02:48:50. Antonino Salinas (Palermo, November 19, 1841 – Rome, March 7, 1914) was an archaeologist, numismatist and Italian rector Born in Palermo in 1841, Antonino Salinas began to nurture an interest in art and antiquities from his early childhood, through the influence of his mother, Teresa Gargotta,…

Originally posted 2017-09-09 04:07:48. On April 17, 1970 a significant event took place in the cultural life of our republic – P.A. Oyunskiy’s Literary Museum, the first in Yakutia, was opened. Platon Alekseevich Oyunskiy, outstanding public man, statesman, international writer, scholar, consecrated his life to the good of his nation.…

Originally posted 2017-09-09 02:23:28. “A time to heal” The Story of the Children’s Home in Otwock, Poland Approximately one and a half million of the six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust were children. The number of children who survived is estimated in the thousands. Some children were able to…

Originally posted 2017-09-09 01:56:08. “An attempt to right – even slightly – the wrong that was being caused to the murdered people” Nazi Germany occupied the region of Volhynia in North West Ukraine in June-July 1941. Only few of the Jews were able to escape from the rapidly advancing German…

Originally posted 2017-09-09 01:39:03. “…the courage that would accompany them for the rest of their lives, and which continues to guide the next generations of the family.”” On the eve of the German occupation, Raseiniai had a bustling Jewish community of some 2,000 Jewish residents, representing one-third of the townlet’s…

Originally posted 2017-09-07 00:22:52. Savitribai Phule, the woman who helped set up the first school for girls in India Savitribai Phule was a trailblazer in providing education for girls and for ostracized portions of society. She became the first female teacher in India (1848) and opened a school for girls…

Originally posted 2017-09-06 22:45:51. Begum Hazrat Mahal, or ‘Begum of Awadh’, was one of India’s first female freedom fighters, leading the battle in the First Indian War of Independence in 1857. Bold and tenacious, Begum Hazrat Mahal has marked her place in history as the only major leader of the…

Originally posted 2017-09-06 22:28:53. The life of a pioneer in feminism Tarabai Shinde Tarabai Shinde, born in the Berar province of Buldhana, was a women’s right’s activist who protested patriarchy. Her first published work, Stri Purush Tulana, which translates to, A Comparison between Women and Men is considered to be…

Originally posted 2017-09-06 21:59:02. Razia Sultana was the first woman Sultanate of India, and ruled the court of Delhi from the end of 1236 to 1240. The only ever woman to do so, she defied all odds to occupy the throne, including overcoming conflicts over her gender and her slave…