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Eleanor “Ellie” Smith

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His name was Joseph Wilson Swan. It was at the Literary and Philosophical Society in Newcastle on 3 February 1879, in front of an audience of 700 people, that he first demonstrated that he could illuminate a room – for his lecture – with an evacuated glass bulb containing a carbon filament, through which a current passed.

Matt Ridley • How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom

TOP 10 “BILLISMOS” Bill muitas vezes tinha uma maneira única de dizer que nos amava. Aqui estão suas dez favoritas, como recordou seu amigo e colega de equipe Ted Gregory. A lista foi impressa na contracapa do programa dado aos convidados no memorial de Bill. 10. “Você deveria mandar lavar e queimar essa camisa.” 9. “Você é burro como um poste.” 8.

Eric Schimdt • O coach de um trilhão de dólares: O manual de liderança do Vale do Silício (Portuguese Edition)

“Of course. So is Julie. Most of the Proctor women went to Miss Lyon’s seminary—or Mount Holyoke if you prefer,” Aunt Gwyneth replied. “They say Mary Lyon got her idea for a women’s college when she was here, serving as the assistant principal of the Ipswich Female Seminary.”

Deborah Harkness • The Black Bird Oracle

Allen Campbell and Dorothy Parker were there, recently married after living together during the preceding year, and

A. Scott Berg • Max Perkins: Editor of Genius

The trustees came to know Emanuel as a likable and generous man—but they also learned that his wife did the talking for the Moses family. This was true in the Moses home as well. “The relationship between Mother and Father was simple,” Paul Moses would recall. “Father did what Mother directed.”

Robert A. Caro • The Power Broker

Myrtilla Miner may have been ‘frail’, as Frederick Douglass observed, but she was definitely formidable, and was always able, at lesson time, to discover the eye of that racist storm. Early one morning, however, she was abruptly awakened by the odor of smoke and raging flames, which soon consumed her schoolhouse. Although her school was destroyed,