Saturday, February 29, 2020
Monday, February 24, 2020
Monday, February 17, 2020
GREAT LIVES : HENRY ADAMS
[2/17, 10:03] Sivasubramanian Sivasuriy: *Henry Brooks Adams* was an American historian and member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he was secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln's ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Yesterday was his birthday. He was born on Feb. 16, 1838.
Grateful thanks to Google and Wikipedia.
[2/17, 10:06] Sivasubramanian Sivasuriy: *Some of his famous Quotes*
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.
A friend in power is a friend lost.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
*... they know enough who know how to learn* -
*....words are slippery and thought is viscous* -
*Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts - Henry Adams*
Friday, February 14, 2020
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
GREAT LIVES : ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Abraham Lincoln, 16th U.S. President, was born on this day, Feb.12 in 1809.
He died in office upon his assassination. Lincoln led the nation through its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis in the American Civil War.
LINCOLN :
SIGNED THE FIRST OF THE HOMESTEAD ACTS, ALLOWING POOR PEOPLE TO OBTAIN LAND and THE MORRILL LAND-GRANT ACT WHICH LED TO CREATION OF NUMEROUS UNIVERSITIES
ESTABLISHED THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE and THE US NATIONAL BANKING SYSTEM.
WAS BEHIND THE PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF INCOME TAX IN US
ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION WHICH LED TO ABOLISHING SLAVERY IN US
LED THE UNION TO VICTORY IN THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR
and
LAID THE STEPPING STONE FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF U. S.
Grateful thanks to Google and Wikipedia.
GREAT LIVES : CHARLES DARWIN
CHARLES DARWIN'S BIRTHDAY
Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was born in this day, Feb. 12 in 1809. He was a naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution.
His proposition that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors is now widely accepted, and considered a foundational concept in science.
HIS BOOK, ORIGIN OF SPECIES, DEEPLY INFLUENCED WESTERN SOCIETY AND THOUGHT .
He us hailed as the Father of Evolutionary Biology.
Grateful thanks to Google and Wikipedia.
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
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