BUILDING MINDS
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Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro
Friar Benito Jerónimo Feijóo y Montenegro was a Spanish monk and scholar who led the Age of Enlightenment in Spain. He was an energetic popularizer noted for encouraging scientific and…
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Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov
Evgraf Stepanovich Fedorov was a Russian mathematician, crystallographer and mineralogist. Fedorov was born in the Russian city of Orenburg. His father was a topographical engineer. The family later moved to…
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bookkeeping for small business tutorial part 3 – expenditure tracking – bookkeeping training
This is a free video tutorial for small business book keeping – part 3 – open office calc spreadsheets – expenditure tracking – bookkeeping training. In this tutorial I will…
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Chessington is an area in the Royal Borough of Kingston.
Chessington is an area in the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames within Greater London. Historically part of Surrey, today it is the largest salient of Greater London into that…
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Medgar Evers
You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea. American civil rights activist DescriptionMedgar Wiley Evers was an American civil rights activist in Mississippi, the state’s field secretary…
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Richard Allen – Journalist, Author, Minister
“This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and the gospel…
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Mary Church Terrell
With courage, born of success achieved in the past, with a keen sense of the responsibility which we shall continue to assume, we look forward to a future large with…
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Reginald Lewis America’s First Black Billion Dollar Businessman
American businessman Description Reginald F. Lewis, was an American businessman. He was one of the richest African-American men in the 1980s, and the first African American to build a billion-dollar…
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Meet the First Self-Made Female Millionaire
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. … Madam C. J. Walker American entrepreneur DescriptionSarah Breedlove, known as Madam C. J. Walker, was an African-American…
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Fannie Lou Hamer – “Until I am Free You are Not Free Either”Fannie Lou Hamer: A Civil Rights Heroine and Her Journey Through Music
Fannie Lou Hamer was known for her powerful singing voice and often used music as a tool to inspire and motivate people in the civil rights movement. Some of her…
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James Ussher
But if anyone, well seen in the knowledge, not onely of Sacred and exotick History, but of Astronomical Calculation, and the old Hebrew Kalendar, shall apply himself to these studies,…
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Sir John Herschel
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet KH FRS was an English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor, experimental photographer who invented the blueprint,…
Bosses Made Men 