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Before the 1950s and the great changes Sherwood Washburn made to the field of physical anthropology and anthropology as a whole, the field used to be practiced in a very different way compared to today’s methods. Physical anthropology used to be primarily concerned with classification and typologies when approaching the subject of human and non-human…
Have you heard of Italian director Vittorio De Sica? On July 7th, 1901, in the small Italian town of Sora that lay between Rome and Naples, actor and Neorealist director Vittorio De Sica was born. His father, Umberto De Sica, had composed a song, “Tarallo Tarallino,” in the case that a boy was born to…
Who Is Francesco Petrarch? Born in 1304 in what is now the region of Tuscany, Italy, Francesco Petrarca, known simply in English as Petrarch, was a poet and one of the founders of Renaissance humanism. Renaissance humanism was a movement that blossomed out of the “dark ages” (a concept which Petrarch actually developed) and was…
Abraham Lincoln, (February 12, 1809 – 15 April 1865), is one of the most memorable presidents of the United States right next to George Washington and JFK. He was the 16th president and served 5 years until his infamous assassination by John Wilkes Booth during a theater performance. Besides his manner of death, another thing…