by Beat Schindler | Jan 7, 2025 | Words, You
Charles Darwin, born 215 years ago, died 142 years ago, didn’t believe the most successful lie ever told, according to which the past is in a book. Instead of that he decided to find out what happened in the past by himself. Aged 22 he embarked on a five-year voyage...
by Beat Schindler | Jan 7, 2025 | You
Charles Darwin …born 215 years ago, died 142 years ago, didn’t believe the most successful lie ever told, according to which the past is in a book. Instead of that he decided to find out what happened in the past by himself. Aged 22 he embarked on a five-year...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 23, 2024 | Words, You
James Frederick Ferrier (born 216 years ago / died 160 years ago) was a Scottish word-user, writer, lawyer, and university professor. His wife Margaret Anne Wilson wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North. At a time when the word-user population of 1 billion...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 23, 2024 | You
JAMES FREDERICK FERRIER James Frederick Ferrier (born 216 years ago / died 160 years ago) was a Scottish word-user, writer, lawyer, and university professor. His wife Margaret Anne Wilson wrote under the pseudonym Christopher North. At a time when the word-user...
by Beat Schindler | Sep 21, 2024 | You
Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (born 281 years ago / died 230 years ago) discovered oxygen (246 years ago) and hydrogen (241 years ago), making it the beginning of modern chemistry. He was an aristocrat and member of the Ferme générale — an operation that collected tax...
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