When modern-day soccer fans or streamers see the word Sui, they probably think about Christiano Ronaldo screaming SIIIIIIUUUUUU (Portuguese for yes) after a goal, a…
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Eyes glued to a dark screen, not losing focus for a second regardless of time or hunger. Unlike in the past, most of today’s children…
Throughout the Islamic golden age (9th-13th centuries AD), Muslims would make great contributions to the field of trigonometry. In particular, Muslims would use their observations…
Discoveries in astronomy made during the Renaissance Era that involved trigonometry were made by Copernicus. Copernicus dedicated his work to creating a new model of…
In the 1500s, a typesetter, looking to model the look of words on a page, printed out these words...
Well, that title is quite strange. Who would have thought that our 20th president and Pythagoras could be in the same sentence? Getting to that…
Nine-year-old Jerry Lindenstraus loved a parade, but growing up in Nazi Germany, parades had grown dangerous. Upon hearing the jubilant music of the band and…
“We’ve got the spirit! We’ve got the fight!” Cheers like this are widespread and common at sporting events now, but in fact cheerleading has been…
The Industrial Age of the United States was defined by one thing – exploitation. Each day, impoverished laborers, including women and children, desperately flocked to…
The Vanderbilts – you may recognize that name from Vanderbilt University, also known as “Harvard of the South.” Although that University was actually started by…