Dec 26, 2022
When the Nazi gestapo captured Irena Sendler, they demanded to know the names of the 2,500 Jewish children whose lives she had saved. Sendler endured the torture of having both her leges broken, but remained silent.
Sendler had found Christian parents for the children and kept all their names in a jar buried under a...
Dec 26, 2022
After fleeing his home in Prague, Petr Beckmann learned how to use RADAR technology to help defeat the Nazis. He then earned a Doctor of Science degree in communist-run Czechoslovakia, and escaped to the freedom of America.
Beckmann wrote more than sixty-books and founded a pro-science, pro-technology,...
Dec 13, 2022
In twelfth-century France, Peter
Abelard renounced his inheritance and knighthood and chose to
become a philosopher. Héloïse, though raised in a convent,
challenged cultural norms, became a scholar, and held a secret
marriage with Abelard.
Church officials sent Abelard to the monastery
and Héloïse back to the...
Dec 13, 2022
Before inventing the telegraph, Samuel Morse was a prolific artist. But his invention accelerated communication from the speed of horseback to the speed of light. Morse’s creation transformed business, transportation, journalism, and warfare.
Dec 13, 2022
Before 1450, all books in Europe
were laboriously written by hand. Gutenberg changed that with one
invention: the moveable printing press. Thanks to his creation,
within fifty years businesses in Europe were producing millions of
books.
The dissemination of ideas led to radical
improvements in the culture and helped...