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Joan Clarke (1917-1996)
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Joan Elisabeth Lowther Clarke MBE (1917-1996) was an English cryptanalyst who worked as a code-breaker at Bletchley Park during World War II. Read more
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John Logie Baird FRSE (1888-1946)
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John Logie Baird FRSE (1888-1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the world's first practical, publicly demonstrated television system, and also the world's first fully electronic colour television tube. Read more
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Grigor Gurzadyan (1922 – 2014)
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Grigor Gurzadyan (October 15, 1922 - February 22, 2014) was an Armenian astronomer, and pioneer of space astronomy. In 1960s and early 1970s he directed the UV and X-ray observations of Sun via Rocket Astrophysical Observatories K-2, K-3 and K-4 by means of ballistic rockets R-5; the first launch b...
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Julius Caesar
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On 10 January 49 BC, leading one legion, the Legio XIII Gemina, General Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon River, the boundary between the Cisalpine Gaul province, to the north, and Italy proper, to the south, a legally-proscribed action forbidden to any army-leading general. Read more Crossing...
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Steven Ray Nagel
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Steven Ray Nagel (born October 27, 1946) is a retired Colonel in the USAF and a former NASA astronaut. Read more
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Helmut Graf von Zborowski (1905 - 1969)
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Helmut Graf von Zborowski (born August 21 1905 in Terezin, Bohemia - 16 November 1969 in Brunoy, Paris) was an Austrian aircraft designer of VTOL aircraft. His father, Oberst NN Zborowski, a colonel in the Austria-Hungarian army, was commander of the first Austrian airship. His mother was Mariann...
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Albert Marth (1828 – 1897)
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Albert Marth (May 5, 1828 - August 6, 1897) was a German astronomer. Shortly after 1855, Albert Marth accept a position at the Durham University Observatory, Potters Bank, Durham, succeeding Georg Rümker as assistant to Tempel Chevallier. After working a few years as an assistant to English astro...
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Arlene Martel (1936 – 2014)
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Arlene Martel (April 14, 1936 August 12, 2014) was an American actress and acting coach. Prior to 1964, she was frequently billed as Arline Sax, Arlene Sax or Tasha Martel. Read more
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Louis Leakey (1903 - 1972)
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Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (L.S.B. Leakey) (7 August 1903 - 1 October 1972) was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. Read more
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Dr. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar
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Dr. Jayant Vishnu Narlikar (born July 19, 1938) is an Indian astrophysicist. Narlikar is a proponent of the steady state cosmology. He developed with Sir Fred Hoyle the conformal gravity theory, commonly known as Hoyle-Narlikar theory. Read more
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Lindow Man
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Lindow Man, also known as Lindow II and (in jest) as Pete Marsh, is the preserved bog body of a man discovered in a peat bog at Lindow Moss near Wilmslow in Cheshire, North West England. The body was found on 1 August 1984 by commercial peat-cutters. Read more [video=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=...
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Louis Blériot (1872 - 1936)
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Louis Charles Joseph Blériot (1 July 1872 - 2 August 1936) was a French aviator, inventor and engineer. He developed the first practical headlamp for cars and established a profitable business manufacturing them, using much of the money he made to finance his attempts to build a successful aircraf...
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Colin Renfrew
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Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph.D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot (born 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees) is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the preventi...
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784 - 1846)
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (22 July 1784 - 17 March 1846) was a German mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was a contemporary of Carl Gauss, also a mathematician and physicist. The asteroid 1552 Bessel was named in his...
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Henry Hartsfield
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Henry Warren "Hank" Hartsfield, Jr. (born November 21, 1933) is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former USAF and NASA astronaut who logged over 480 hours in space. Read more Spoiler
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