Johann Gottfried Herder was born in the small Prussian town of Mohrugen on August 25, 1744, to a very humble family origin. His father was a bell ringer, sacristan and doorman at a girls school. It would be the village priest who initiated him in basic studies and put him in contact with the works o
Of Indias 566 native states, 12 were located within the geographical boundary of the proposed Pakistan, while most of the remaining 554 were surrounded by Indian territories. Some of the states were located on the proposed India-Pakistan border. All the states situated on the Indo-Pakistan border we
Julius Caesar in the painting by Lionel Royer. Julius Caesar, actually Gaius Julius Caesar (100-44 BC) Roman military, politician and leader. He was born in the patrician family of Julius on July 12 or 13 (according to some historians) July 100 BCE. From the mid-70s BCE influential representat
Marie-Sophie Germain (1776-1831) was one of the first French mathematicians. She is known for her work on number theory, on the elasticity of bodies, and for her exchanges with the mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss. Anthony Augustus the White It is, it seems, reading a book on Archimedes which is