Winston Churchill and his Glow Worm
Winston Churchill and his Glow Worm
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1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier commences his first voyage to what is today the east coast of Canada, the island of Newfoundland and Labrador.
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A short, sharp hit of history in video format. ‘Rock star' 19th century English poet Lord George Byron was described by one of his lovers as ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’.
The sources for this HistoryWow video include: Lord Byron by Andrew Rutherford; Byron: The Flawed Angel by Phyllis Grosskurth and Lord Byron by Richard Edgcumbe.
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Who Am I?
- I was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, in 1878
- Born into a middle class family, I was privately schooled to develop my skills in physics, and eventually graduated from the University of Vienna.
- As a women, I struggled to gain respect in the field. My first research position at the University of Berlin was unpaid and I was prohibited from working with male scientists.
- I specialised in radioactivity and was a key collaborator with famed physicist Otto Hahn (1879-1968)
- My contribution to nuclear physics was significant, but I controversially did not share in the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for nuclear fission which was was awarded exclusively to Hahn.
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Nain Singh Rawat (1830-1882)
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HistoryWow’s Highlighted Historical Quotation
“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe…In place of old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations”.
Karl Marx (1818-1883) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), political philosophers.Source: Writing History in the Global Era by Lynn Hunt
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