Kyoto University was founded to train scientists to support the rapid industrialization of
Japan during the
Meiji period
The life work of Rudolf Steiner was his development of Anthroposophy, a philosophy based on the premise that the human intellect has the ability to contact the
spiritual world
Lev Vygotsky has been called the "Mozart of Psychology"
Easter Island, or Rapa Nui, is famous for its massive stone sculptures known as "
moai"
The precise height of Mount Everest is unknown, with measurements ranging from 29,000 to 29,035 feet
The
dualism that exists in Norse mythology is not an opposition of good versus evil, but order versus chaos
The history of robots goes back as far as ancient
myths and legends
There nine generally accepted subspecies of giraffe
The Balinese people are descendants of a prehistoric race who
migrated through mainland Asia to the
Indonesian archipelago
The general
philosophy of vocational education stands in stark contrast to the ideology of a liberal arts
education.
The first woman to serve in the United States Senate was Rebecca Latimer Felton, aged 87, who served for one day
Constructivist architects aimed to instill the avant-garde in everyday life, constructing the spaces in which a
socialist utopia could be achieved
The werewolf phenomenon can be traced all the way back to shape-shifting practices of shamans who transformed into animals including wolves
Swedenborg was a successful scientist and inventor before his spiritual awakening
Organizations providing disaster relief to all those affected began in the nineteenth century
The "Sunshine Policy" of
South Korea towards
North Korea was named after
Aesop's fable in which the man removed his coat voluntarily to enjoy the warmth of the sun
Xiuzhen means “to practice and learn the way of the truth” and is the principal technique in the
Taoist quest for immortality
Nobel Prize winning German physicist Max von Laue openly resisted the Nazi regime's anti-Jewish Deutsche Physik
The Kingdom of Mysore was an important center of art and culture in Southern India
Augustus Caesar ended a century of
civil wars and gave Rome an era of peace, prosperity, and imperial greatness, known as the Pax Romana, "Roman peace"
Harriet Tubman was buried with full military honors at Fort Hill Cemetery in Auburn, New York
A coin was often placed in the mouth of a dead person as payment to Charon for passage across the river Styx to the world of the dead.
The Phoenicians are credited with spreading the Phoenician alphabet throughout the
Mediterranean world, so that it became one of the most widely used
writing systems
The Community of Christ was formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Stephen Covey coined the idea of "abundance mentality," which allows everyone to be successful rather than winners vs losers
Tina Turner was born in Nutbush,
Tennessee, a small rural community that she described in her 1973 hit song "Nutbush City Limits"
Nineveh was the largest city in the world prior to its destruction in 612 B.C.E.
In 2001 the name of the
Indian city of Kolkata was officially changed from "Calcutta"
Richard Felton Outcault created the
cartoon characters "The Yellow Kid" and "Buster Brown"
Sylvia Plath was the first poet to win a
Pulitzer Prize posthumously, for
The Collected Poems published almost twenty years after her death by
suicide
German economist Gustav von Schmoller was concerned with social challenges posed by rapid industrialization and
urbanization
Scottish educator A. S. Neill founded Summerhill School as an experiment in free learning
The Monroe Doctrine has been ironically summarized in Latin America as "America for the Americans"
