#historymakers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #historymakers, aggregated by home.social.
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Celebrate Belle da Costa Greene, the trailblazing librarian who shaped the Morgan Library. As its first director, she overcame racial barriers during the Gilded Age to pioneer education and culture.
Explore her extraordinary journey and impact at the Morgan Library’s centennial exhibition, running until May 4, 2025.
#BelleDaCostaGreene #MorganLibrary #GoodNews #EducationMatters #HistoryMakers
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Robert Fleming, Scottish Presbyterian minister, reflects on the martyrs of Christianity (and in his age, Protestantism). He claims that the only way persecuted Christian martyrs could respond with tenderness and compassion to their adversaries, is through the divine Spirit of God.
This is a proof of religion to him. God be praised.
How can you respond with tenderness when challenged or persecuted?
#christian #historymakers #immigrantrights #trylove #globalgoals
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Hooray For Nature! The EU Nature Restoration Law has been passed. #historymakers #MondayMotivation 🌿
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🌟Today's #WomensHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight🌟:
Elizabeth Blackburn (1948-)
👉🏿Australian-American biochemist
👉🏾won the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovery in DNA genetic links to cancer -
🌟Today's #WomensHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight🌟:
Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
👉🏿best-selling & most translated novelist of all time
👉🏾also wrote ‘The Mousetrap’, the longest-running play in world history -
🌟Today's #WomensHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight🌟:
Ada Lovelace (1815–1852)
👉🏿English mathematician; world’s 1st computer programmer
👉🏾helped Babbage develop his proposed Analytical Engine (1st computer) -
🌟Today's #WomensHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight🌟:
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883)
👉🏿 African-American abolitionist & activist
👉🏾 became the first black woman to win a legal case to recover her enslaved son -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917–2000)
👉🏿U.S. poet and author
👉🏾first Black writer to be awarded the Pulitzer Prize -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Mark Dean (1957-)
👉🏿U.S. computer scientist
👉🏾invented first colour computer monitor & the first gigahertz chip -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Bessie Coleman (1892-1926)
👉🏿first Black woman to be a professional pilot
👉🏾earliest known Black person to earn an international pilot's license -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Benjamin Banneker (1731-1806)
👉🏿American mathematician & astronomer
👉🏾helped survey the original borders of the District of Columbia -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Michaëlle Jean (1957-)
👉🏿Haitian Canadian journalist & filmmaker
👉🏾Canada’s first Black Governor General -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Anne Clare Cools (1943-)
👉🏿Canadian politician
👉🏾first Black Canadian Senator & first Black woman senator in North America -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Lincoln Alexander (1922–2012)
👉🏿Canadian lawyer & politician
👉🏾first Black Member of Parliament & first Black federal Cabinet Minister -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
👉🏿U.S. agricultural scientist
👉🏾invented 300+ products from the peanut plant -
🌟 Today's #BlackHistoryMonth trailblazer spotlight 🌟:
Madam C.J. Walker (1867-1919)
👉🏿U.S. cosmetics entrepreneur, philanthropist, & anti-lynching activist
👉🏾self-made millionaire -
Well Done Morocco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
#WorldCup #HistoryMakers #Morocco