George Washington Carver (c. 1864 – January 5, 1943) was an American agricultural scientist, educator and inventor who worked at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Alabama for 47 years. Born into slavery near Diamond Grove, Missouri, he became the first Black student at Iowa State Agricultural College and was recruited to Tuskegee in
George Washington Carver (c. 1864-1943) was an American agricultural scientist and educator who taught at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama from 1896 until his death.
Gregor Johann Mendel (1822 to 1884) was a Moravian friar and scientist whose experiments with pea plants revealed basic patterns of inheritance. His work, carried out mainly between 1856 and 1863, went largely unnoticed in his lifetime. When it was rediscovered in 1900 it became the foundation of genetics. Early life of Gregor Mendel Mendel
Gregor Mendel was a Moravian friar whose pea plant experiments in the 1850s and 1860s revealed the basic patterns of inheritance and founded genetics.
Henry Louis “Hank” Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021) was an American baseball outfielder born in Mobile, Alabama. Over a 23-year major league career, almost all of it with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves, he hit 755 home runs, collected 3,771 hits and drove in 2,297 runs.[1][2] On April 8, 1974, he hit
Hank Aaron (1934-2021) was a Mobile, Alabama native who hit 755 major league home runs and held baseball’s career record from 1974 to 2007.
Hank Williams, born Hiram Williams on September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive, Butler County, Alabama, became one of the most influential singer-songwriters in American country music [1][2]. He grew up in Georgiana and Montgomery, learned the blues from a local street musician, and by 1949 had a No. 1 country hit with “Lovesick Blues” [1][2].
Hank Williams (1923-1953) was an Alabama-born singer-songwriter whose hits made him one of the most influential figures in country music.
Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016) was an American novelist born in Monroeville, Alabama. Her only novel published during her main career, To Kill a Mockingbird (1960), set in 1930s Alabama, won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and has sold nearly 50 million copies in more than 40 languages. A second
Harper Lee (1926-2016) was an American novelist from Monroeville, Alabama, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Hatshepsut was a ruler of ancient Egypt in the 18th Dynasty who reigned from about 1479 to 1458 BCE and took the full title and authority of pharaoh. She began as regent for her young stepson Thutmose III and then ruled as king in her own right. She is remembered for her mortuary temple at
Egyptian ruler of the 18th Dynasty (reigned about 1479 to 1458 BCE) who ruled as pharaoh and built the temple at Deir el-Bahari.
Helen Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, lecturer and advocate born in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Deaf and blind from the age of 19 months, she learned to communicate with the help of teacher Anne Sullivan, graduated from Radcliffe College in 1904 and became an internationally known writer and campaigner.[1] Her
Helen Keller (1880-1968) was a deaf-blind author and advocate born at Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
Hernando de Soto led a Spanish expedition through the southeastern United States between 1539 and 1542, and his forces entered what is now Alabama in 1540. On October 18, 1540, they reached Mabila, the capital of Chief Tascaluza, where fighting broke out and the Spaniards set the town on fire [1]. De Soto died on
Hernando de Soto's Spanish expedition entered present-day Alabama in 1540 and fought the town of Mabila on October 18, 1540.
Ibn Battuta (1304 to about 1368) was a Moroccan scholar and judge who traveled for nearly 30 years across Africa, Asia and parts of Europe, covering roughly 75,000 miles (120,000 km). His travel book, the Rihla, is one of the most important eyewitness accounts of the 14th-century world. Early life of Ibn Battuta Ibn Battuta
Ibn Battuta was a Moroccan judge and scholar who traveled about 75,000 miles from 1325 to the early 1350s and wrote the Rihla.
Ibn Sina (c. 980 to 1037), known in Europe as Avicenna, was a Persian physician and philosopher who worked at the courts of several rulers in Central Asia and Iran. His Canon of Medicine and Book of Healing became standard reference works across the Islamic world and in medieval Europe. Early life of Ibn Sina
Ibn Sina, called Avicenna in Europe, was a Persian physician and philosopher who wrote the Canon of Medicine and the Book of Healing.