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Pierre Belon
When I wrote a post on Conrad Gessner two days ago, I was surprised when I tried to add a link to Gesner's worthy contemporary, Pierre Belon, and ...
George F.L. Marshall
George Frederick Leycester Marshall, a career British officer in the Royal Army in India, was born Mar. 27, 1843, in Shropshire. His brother ...
Conrad Gessner
Conrad Gesner, a Swiss naturalist, was born Mar. 26, 1516. Gesner was the most distinguished naturalist of the late Renaissance, a contemporary ...
Isaac Stevens
In 1853, the U.S. Congress authorized the Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis, to survey the American West, in order to determine the best route for ...
The Lumière Brothers
The Lumière brothers, Auguste and Louis, were a pair of pioneering French filmmakers and inventors. Auguste was born Oct. 19, 1862, and Louis ...
Herbert Ponting
Herbert George Ponting, a British photographer and explorer, was born Mar. 21, 1870. Every polar expedition had a photographer, but not many are ...
Louis de Broglie
Louis Victor, 7th Duc de Broglie, a French aristocrat and physicist, died Mar. 19, 1987, at the age of 94. De Broglie started out intending to ...
Andrew J. Russell
Andrew Jackson Russell, an American artist and photographer, was born Mar. 20, 1829, in Walpole, New Hampshire, and grew up in Nunda, New York ...
George Elliot
George Elliot, an English manufacturer, was born Mar. 18, 1814. Elliot lived out a classic rags-to-riches story. His father worked in a coal ...
William Hayward Pickering
William Hayward Pickering, a New Zealand-born American rocket engineer and administrator, died Mar. 15, 2004, at the age of 93. After growing up ...
Theo Jansen
Theo Jansen, a Dutch artist, sculptor, and engineer, was born Mar. 14, 1948, in Scheveningen, in the Netherlands. Since 1990, Jansen has been ...
Joseph Priestley
Joseph Priestley, an English (and later American) religious dissenter and natural philosopher, was born Mar. 13, 1733, in West Yorkshire. Born...
Luca Gaurico
Luca Gaurico, an Italian astrologer, was born Mar. 12, 1475. Astrology was a very competitive profession in Renaissance Italy, as princes and ...
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