Paul Anthony Samuelson, first North American to receive Nobel Prize in Economics

October 16, 2021December 30, 2020Leave a comment

First North America presented the Nobel Prize in Economics was in 1970
Continue reading →

First International Congress of Archivists Meeting

October 15, 2021December 30, 2020Leave a comment

The International Council on Archives, (which was founded in 1948), hosted the International Congress of Archivists held in Paris, France, in 1950. Continue reading →

Sarah Bernhardt

October 14, 2021December 30, 2020Leave a comment

Sarah Bernhardt (French: [sa.ʁa bɛʁ.nɑʁt]; 22 or 23 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th century, including La Dame Aux Camelias by Alexandre Dumas, fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by Victorien Sardou, and L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand. She also played male roles, including Shakespeare's Hamlet. Continue reading →

Fields Medal, is a Mathematician’s Nobel Prize.

October 13, 2021December 30, 2020Leave a comment

The Fields Medal was the will of a Canadian born, research mathematician of the University of Toronto, by the name of John Charles Fields. Continue reading →

Hoop skirt was called a Farthingale

October 12, 2021December 30, 2020Leave a comment

Introduced circa 1470 in Castile (now in Spain) a Hoop skirt called the farthingale. Continue reading →

Letters from Christopher Columbus sent from Lisbon

October 11, 2021December 30, 2020Leave a comment

Christopher Columbus, on March 14th 1493, having docked in Lisbon, Portugal, at the end of his first voyage to the New World, he wrote and dispatched two identical letters, one to Raphael Sanchez and the other to Luis de Santangel. Continue reading →