Thursday, April 23, 2020

INSPIRING LIVES

SHAKESPEARE  WAS BORN

ON THIS DAY

IN 1564

AND

PASSED AWAY THE SAME DAY

IN 1616

AT THE AGE OF 52.

HE WROTE 38 PLAYS &

154 SONNETS. 

HIS PLAYS HAVE BEEN TRANSLATED IN EVERY MAJOR LANGUAGE. 

HIS BIRTHDAY IS COMMEMORATED AS

WORLD BOOK DAY. 

Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Sunday, April 19, 2020

REMEMBERING LORD BYRON

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, FRS, known simply as Lord Byron, was an English poet, peer and politician who became a revolutionary in the Greek War of Independence, and is considered one of the leading figures of the Romantic movement. 

Born: 22 January 1788, London, United Kingdom

Died: 19 April 1824, Missolonghi, Greece
Poems: Don Juan, She Walks in Beauty, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Darkness, Manfred, more

Plays: Manfred, Sardanapalus, Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice

Geateful thanks to Wikipedia & Google.

REMEMBERING PIERRE CURIE

Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity, and radioactivity.

Born: 15 May 1859, Paris, France

Died: 19 April 1906, Rue Dauphine, Paris, France

Spouse: Marie Curie (m. 1895–1906)

Discovered: Radium, Polonium

Awards: Nobel Prize in Physics, Davy Medal, Matteucci Medal, Elliott Cresson Medal

Children: Irène Joliot-Curie, Ève Curie

Grateful thanks to Wikipedia and Google.

REMEMBERING CHARLES DARWIN

Charles Robert Darwin, FRS FRGS FLS FZS was an English 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.

Born: 12 February 1809, The Mount House, Shrewsbury, United Kingdom

Died: 19 April 1882, Home of Charles Darwin - Down House, Downe, United Kingdom

Awards: Copley Medal, Royal Medal, Wollaston Medal

Education: Christ's College Cambridge (1828–1831), more

Grateful thanks to Wikipedia and Google.

GANDHIANA

Wednesday, April 15, 2020

INSPIRING LIVES

VESTA STOUDT, INVENTOR OF DUCK TAPE


Inventor of Duck Tape
Vesta Stoudt
Born April 13, 1891 d. 1965

American inventor. Vesta Stoudt invented duck tape. While working at an ordnance plant during World War II, she noticed that the way ammunition boxes were sealed made them difficult to open quickly and this could cost them precious time in battle. So, she developed a waterproof, tearable cloth tape to solve the problem. Her bosses at the plant were unimpressed, so she wrote a letter to U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt:

"I suggested we use a strong cloth tape to close seams, and make tab of same. It worked fine, I showed it to different government inspectors they said it was all right, but I could never get them to change tape."

Roosevelt liked the idea and sent it to the War Production Board who implemented her tape. The tape was made with a woven fabric, known as "duck cloth", coated in waterproof plastic with a layer of rubber-based adhesive and could be torn by hand without the need for scissors. The tape worked great on ammo boxes and soon GIs found it was also useful for fixing leaks, repairing equipment, and even closing up wounds on the battlefield.
Stoudt received Chicago Tribune's War Worker Award for her idea.

DR. AMBEDKAR

Sunday, April 5, 2020

INSPIRING LIVES: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR : A CRUSADER FOR LIBERATION


MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. : 

A CRUSADER FOR LIBERATION

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Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. King, although he was an initial skeptic to religion he eventually became a Baptist minister, a civil-rights activist and had a seismic impact on race relations in the United States. Among his many efforts, King headed the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Through his activism and inspirational speeches, he played a pivotal role in ending the legal segregation of African-American citizens in the United States, as well as the creation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, among several other honors. He was assassinated in April 1968 and continues to be remembered as one of the most influential and inspirational African-American leaders in history.

Grateful thanks to "Biography" and YouTube.

GREAT LIVES

GANDHIANA