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Hart wrote the 1999 follow-up A View from the Year 3000, [33] voiced in the perspective of a person from that future year and ranking the most influential people in history. Roughly half the entries are fictional people from 2000 to 3000, but the remainder are taken mostly from the 1992 ranking, with some sequence changes. [34] [35]
That history is made by men and women is no longer denied except by some theologians and mystical metaphysicians. And even they are compelled indirectly to acknowledge this commonplace truth, for they speak of historical personages as 'instruments' of Providence, Justice, Reason, Dialectic, the Zeitgeist , or Spirit of the Times.
Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women [14] 1500–1599: Marie de Gournay: France: 1565: 1645: Protofeminist writer of Egalité des hommes et des femmes (The equality of men and women) [15] 1500–1599: Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi: Italy: 1501–1600: c. 1593: Protofeminist writer of The Worth of Women [16] 1500–1599 ...
The first American woman and the third woman ever to go to space, flying on the Challenger in 1983, Ride was also the first known LGBTQ+ astronaut. She spent 27 years with her partner Tam O ...
Rosalind Canter, British Olympic equestrienne (woman who rides horses professionally), winner of the 2018 FEI World Equestrian Games [21] Christopher Coke and his father Lester Coke, Jamaican drug lords and cocaine traffickers [22] Thomas Crapper, British sanitary engineer often erroneously referred to as the inventor of the flush toilet [9 ...
Despite its relatively short life, gender history (and its forerunner women's history) has had a rather significant effect on the general study of history.Since the 1960s, when the initially small field first achieved a measure of acceptance, it has gone through a number of different phases, each with its own challenges and outcomes, but always making an impact of some kind on the historical ...
The list included 41 women, the most in the list's history. [23] The gala was held on April 29, 2014, in New York City. [24] Time managing editor Nancy Gibbs commented: The Time 100 is a list of the world's most influential men
De casibus is an encyclopedia of historical biography and a part of the classical tradition of historiography.It deals with the fortunes and calamities of famous people starting with the biblical Adam, going to mythological and ancient people, then to people of Boccaccio's own time in the fourteenth century. [1]