* Occupation: shingle maker, miller
* Born: 1804 in New Jersey
* Died: 1896 in New Jersey
Mother: Nancy Matthews Elliott
* Occupation: schoolteacher
* Born: 1810 in New York
* Died: 1871 in New Jersey
Siblings:
* William Pitt Edison (1826-1865)
* Samuel Ogden Edison, Jr. (1828-1848)
* Harriet Ann Edison (1829-1900)
* Caroline Edison (1832-1855)
* Theodore Miller Edison (1835-1859)
* Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
Incident irrelevant. Five minutes of fame of the funny little mustache chickens. A pinch of bewilderment that will sober up voters. At the turn of 1932 and 1933, no one understood the real importance of Hitlers electoral success. And that only helped him dismantle German democracy. In November 1
The court doctors visit Louis XIV in the film “The last days of Louis XIV” In the last years of his existence Louis XIV he was afflicted with a severe form of gangrene in his leg left, in turn caused by a pre-existing gout, a frequent disease among people of the time belonging to a certain r
A country without stacks? Not necessarily. Witches were hunted not only in Germany, France and England, but also further east - for example in Lithuania. Of course, the fashion for this kind of persecution and trials came from the West, but in the East it took a specific, local form. Witch hunt
How can states overcome crises they have suffered? How can we derive knowledge from the historical events of the past? Award-winning Jared Diamonds book, Nations in Turmoil, asks the key questions at the most critical moment in history. In his research Diamond advances a new presentation of how nati