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(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P57 – Noah Webster (Connecticut) : Language independence fighter for America

Noah Webster Jr. (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author....

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P56 – Robert Oppenheimer (New York) : The Father of atomic bom

Oppenheimer attended Harvard University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1925, and went on to study physics at the University of...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P55 – Horace Mann (Massachusetts) : The reformer of America’s education

Horace Mann, often called the Father of the Common School, began his career as a lawyer and legislator. When he was elected to act...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P54 – Jonas Salk (New York) : America’s savior in the polio pandemic

In 1947, Salk accepted a professorship at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, where he undertook a project beginning in 1948 to determine...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P53 – Jackie Robinson (Georgia): The person who broke down ethnic barriers in the...

Jack Roosevelt Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was an American professional baseball player who became the first African American to play...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P52 – Walt Whitman (New Jersey) : “The Free Spirit” of American Poetry

Whitman was born in Huntington on Long Island, and lived in Brooklyn as a child and through much of his career. At the age...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P51 – Woodrow Wilson (Virginia): The President with the most prominent academic degrees in...

Woodrow Wilson, the forty-third governor of New Jersey and the twenty-eighth president of the United States, was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28,...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P50 – John Marshall (Virginia) : The Greatest Chief Justice of the United States...

John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American politician, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P48 – Oprah Winfrey (Mississippi) : Queen of media in America

Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a single teenage mother and later raised in inner-city Milwaukee. She has stated that she was molested during...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P47 – John Adams (Massachusetts): The American president who started the tradition of peaceful...

A lawyer and political activist prior to the Revolution, Adams was devoted to the right to counsel and presumption of innocence. He defied anti-British...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P46 – Sitting Bull (Dakota Territory)

Sitting Bull was born in what is now South Dakota, probably in 1831, son of a respected Sioux warrior named Returns-Again. The child wanted...

(Uskings) Top Greatest People in the United States history – P45 – Barack Obama (Hawaii) : The first African American president of the United...

Obama was born in 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, two years after the territory was admitted to the Union as the 50th state. Raised largely...

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Peconic Escargot (New York): The largest snail farm in the United States

The story of Peconic Escargot begins in 2013. Taylor Knapp was working as a chef on the North Fork of Long Island and striving...

World’s fastest camera shoots at 156.3 trillion frames per second

Engineers at INRS Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre in Canada have developed the world’s fastest camera, which can shoot at an astonishing 156.3 trillion frames per...

Apple’s AI strategy could be the major focus area at its June 10 developers conference

Apple’s long-term approach to implementing generative artificial intelligence across its products might be closer than one would imagine. On Tuesday, Apple announced that it...

Lowcountry Oyster Festival (Texas): The largest annual oyster festival in the United States

The Lowcountry Oyster Festival is a yearly pilgrimage for seafood lovers, particularly oyster enthusiasts. Held at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina,...