18-year-old Homeless Boy Who Became School’s Best Student And Won Full-Ride Scholarship To Harvard In 2018
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Richard Jenkins, an 18-year-old homeless teenager, fought over all of his high school classmates to win the best…
The Vadoma People Of Zimbabwe Who Have Ostrich Toes, Said To Be Descended From Aliens Thousands Of Years Ago
The mysteries of the world we live in are often in plain sight, and many times humans overlook…
Jonathan Jasper Wright: The First African American To Serve As A State Supreme Court Judge (1840-1885)
Jonathan Jasper Wright, the state’s first African American Supreme Court justice, was born in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, and…
Matthias de Sousa: The First African American Officeholder In Colonial America, Maryland, 1641
Matthias de Sousa, an indentured servant, was the colonial Maryland legislature’s only black member. As such, he is…
George Alcorn Inventor of the Imaging X-ray Spectrometer, With 20 extra inventions and 8 Patents
Few inventors have as impressive a resume as George Edward Alcorn. Among his accomplishments are a B.A. in…
Meet Valerie Thomas, Who Invented The Illusion Transmitter In 1976
Valerie Thomas worked with NASA from 1964 until 1995 in a number of roles, including developing real-time computer…
Meet James E. West, Who Co-Invented The Electret Microphone In 1964
James Edward Maceo West’s work revolutionized how people around the world hear and transmit sound. In 1962, West,…
Frederick Jones Invented The Refrigerator Used In Trucks, Ships, and Airplanes + 60 other Patents
Frederick Jones Invented the Refrigerator, Worldwide: The story of Frederick Jones is one that inspires anyone who comes…
Story Of Alexander Miles Who Invented Automatic Elevator Doors In 1887
Alexander Miles, who contributed to the elevator industry, was a late-nineteenth-century African-American inventor who broke down racial barriers…
Benin Republic Unveils 98 Feet Tall Statue In Honor Of The Women Warrior Of Dahomey
The Amazons of Dahomey are the world’s only documented female army and one of the world’s unsolved mysteries.…