The first female writer of crime fiction was Anna Katherine Green, who wrote The Leavenworth Case in 1878. List of female detective/mystery writers Megan Abbott (born 1971) Christine Adamo (born 1965) Deborah Adams Harriet Stratemeyer Adams (pseudonyms: Carolyn Keene, Franklin W. Dixon) (1892–1982) Jane Adams (born 1960) Carolina Garcia-Aguilera (born…
Pedro Álvares Cabral, (born 1467/68, Belmonte, Portugal—died 1520, Santarém?), Portuguese navigator who is generally credited as the first European to reach Brazil (April 22, 1500). In 1500, the Portuguese nobleman Pedro Álvares Cabral became the first European to discover Brazil. Vasco da Gama lands in Calicut on May 20th 1498.…
Despite spending much of her life enslaved, Phillis Wheatley was the first African American and second woman (after Anne Bradstreet) to publish a book of poems. Born around 1753 in Gambia, Africa, Wheatley was captured by slave traders and brought to America in 1761. Blue- Policing Black America | The…
Laxmi Lakra was the first woman to join the Northern Railways in India as an engine driver and the second woman to join the Central Railways, only after Surekha Yadav. Karen Harrison (16 November 1960 – May 2011) was the first woman in Britain to be appointed as a train…
Alexander Hamilton ( first secretary of the U.S.U.S.In its noun form, the word generally means a resident or citizen of the U.S., but is also used for someone whose ethnic identity is simply “American”. The noun is rarely used in English to refer to people not connected to the United…
Samuel Slater is sometimes called the “Father of the American Industrial Revolution,” because he was responsible for the first American-built textile milling machinery in Rhode Island. Now the mill he built is a museum dedicated to the history of textile manufacture. He later built several other cotton mills in New…
Participating in the mass were two ruling brothers: Rajah Colambu, ruler of Limasawa, and Rajah Siagu, ruler of Butuan in Northern Mindanao. Both rajahs kissed the cross and prayed with the crew, making them the first Filipinos to encounter Christianity. Some people would ask why do we celebrate the arrival…
One of the most noted of Portuguese-born explorers was Fernão de MagalhãesFernão de MagalhãesIt was only later in the 16th century that the voyages of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521) first brought Catholicism to the archipelago, originally named St.https://blogs.loc.gov › international-collections › 2018/07 › ca…Catholicism in the Philippines during the…
The first movie portrayal of a black American president was probably that of Sammy Davis Jr. in the 1933 film Rufus Jones for President. James is the next inline making him “The Man” and the first African-American President of the United States. In an interview with Greg Braxton of the…
Major French exploration of North Americaexploration of North AmericaThe Voyages of Christopher Columbus opened the New World. Italian navigator and explorer Giovanni Caboto (known in English as John Cabot) is credited with the discovery of continental North America on June 24, 1497, under the commission of Henry VII of England.https://en.wikipedia.org…