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Women Nobel Prize Winners

Marie Curie was not only the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, in 1903, but she was also the only woman ever to win two Nobel Prizes. Below is a list of all women Nobel Prize…

Summer Olympics: Most Gold Medals Per Person

Find a list of the all-time gold top medal winners at the Summer Olympics. Michael Phelps tops the list for men, and Larissa Latynina, of the USSR, remains No. 1 for women. Men No   Sport…

Women Who Left Their “Stamps” on History

Each of the following women have made a significant contribution to society. As a result, they (or works of art created by them) have been pictured on U.S. postage stamps.Name Year Issued…

Consecutive Game Streaks

Consecutive Game StreaksRegular season games through 2004.Games PlayedGm Dates of Streak2632 Cal Ripken Jr., Bal 5/30/82 to 9/19/982130 Lou Gehrig, NY 6/1/25 to 4/30/391307 Everett Scott,…

Women's Suffrage: The Opposition Grows Grimmer

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler Last of All Suffrage ConventionsThe Struggle for the Thirty-Sixth StateThe Opposition Grows GrimmerNo observer accustomed to judge popular…

2003 Grammy Awards

The 46th Annual Grammy Awards were presented at Staples Center in Los Angeles on February 8, 2004. Record: “Clocks,” Coldplay Album: Speakerboxxx/The Love Below, Outkast Song: “Dance…

Brewer's: Devil

Represented with a cloven foot, because by the Rabbinical writers he is called seirissim (a goat). As the goat is a type of uncleanness, the prince of unclean spirits is aptly represented…

The True George Washington: Education: Adulthood

AdulthoodThe end of Washington's school-days left him, if a good "cipherer," a bad speller, and a still worse grammarian, but, fortunately, the termination of instruction did not by any means…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Halloween[1]

by Robert Burns Fragment-Her Flowing LocksTo A Mouse, On Turning Her Up ...Halloween[1] The following poem will, by many readers, be well enough understood; but for the sake of those who…

MLB MVP By Year

(Baseball Writers' Association selections) American League 1931 Lefty Grove, Philadelphia 1932–33 Jimmie Foxx,…