South African-American film actress and producer

American musician

Peter Hill was the first known African American clockmaker, and the only Black clockmaker known to have worked in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. He was one of the few African American who opened a small business.

Here's an aspect of being a zookeeper we hadn't thought through.

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Washington and the First Mass Military Inoculation -- Science from the John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress, posted by the Science Reference Service, Library of Congress.

Societal norms often dictate the products people use even if they don’t need them

type of bow for archery

An excerpt from “What Truth Sounds Like” about race in America.

The Astute class is the latest class of nuclear-powered fleet submarines (SSNs) in service with the Royal Navy. The class sets a new standard for the Royal Navy in terms of weapons load, communication facilities and stealth. The boats are being constructed…

collective pseudonym for a group of (mainly French) 20th-century mathematician

Did Disney's The Lion King take elements from Osamu Tezuka's Kimba the White Lion? There certainly are a lot of similarities.

On the twelfth of May in 1999 the newly constituted Scottish Parliament met for the first time. By parliamentary tradition, the chair was taken by the oldest member present to conduct the ballot for presiding officer.

The band has now played all seven continents

Fred and Joanne Rogers shared a long and loving relationship, which she continues to honor by carrying on his legacy after his 2003 death.

Arató András was tidying away his papers after delivering a lecture at a Hungarian lighting conference when two young men came to the front and asked for a photo with him. He was delighted that his

novel by Eva Ibbotson

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1967 comedy movie directed by Mel Brooks

The al-Qarawiyyin library was built in 859, around the same time that the concept of zero was invented.

Spending is down by $9 billion over the last decade, driving tuition up and frustrating the search for skilled workers.