Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician, microbiologist, and pharmacologist. His best known discoveries are the enzyme lysozyme in 1923 and the world’s first antibiotic substance benzylpenicillin from the mould Penicillium notatum in 1928, for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Howard Florey and Ernest Boris Chain. Take…
30 Interesting And Awesome Facts About Sitting Bull
Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Lakota leader who led his people during years of resistance to United States policies. He was killed by Indian agency police on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation during an attempt to arrest him, at a time when authorities feared that he would join the Ghost Dance movement. Take a look…
30 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Gregor Mendel
Gregor Johann Mendel was a scientist, Augustinian friar and abbot of St. Thomas’ Abbey in Brno, Margraviate of Moravia. Mendel was born in a German-speaking family in the Silesian part of the Austrian Empire and gained posthumous recognition as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Take a look below for 30 more interesting…
30 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman and writer who served as the 26th President of the United States from 1901 to 1909. He also served as the 25th Vice President of the United States from March to September 1901 and as the 33rd Governor of New York from 1899 to 1900. Take a look…
30 Awesome And Interesting Facts About Elizabeth I Of England
Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from November 17, 1558, until her death on March 24, 1603. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Take a look below for 30 more awesome and interesting facts about Elizabeth I. 1. Elizabeth…
26 Fun And Interesting Facts About Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who’s a central figure in modern philosophy. Kant argued that the human mind creates the structure of human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arise from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of human sensibility, and that the world as…
30 Interesting And Fascinating Facts About Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s best known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fascinating facts about Charles Dickens. 1. His works had unprecedented popularity during…
25 Interesting And Awesome Facts About Sophocles
Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. Take a look below for 25 more interesting and awesome facts about Sophocles. 1. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during the course of his…
30 Interesting And Fun Facts About Rene Descartes
Rene Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician and scientist. Known as the father of modern Western philosophy, much of subsequent Western philosophy is a response to his writings, which are studied closely to this day. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and fun facts about Rene Descartes. 1. A native of the Kingdom…
28 Fascinating And Interesting Facts About Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu was a Chinese general, military strategist, writer and philosopher who lived in the Eastern Zhou period of ancient China. Sun Tzu is traditionally credited as the author of The Art of War, a widely influential work of military strategy that has affected both Western and East Asian philosophy and military thinking. Take a…