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We’ve all heard the expression “publish or perish” when applied to an academic career. Many universities, for example, require a certain level of publication in scholarly journals in order for an instructor to get tenure. Although Thomas Harriot was not…
On December 2, 1942 at 3:25pm the world changed. That was when a team of about 48 scientists led by physicist Enrico Fermi was able to achieve the world’s first sustained nuclear chain reaction. Also important on that fateful day…
Early America, like today, had its controversial figures. Most early colonists came to America to acquire land and establish a home without much interference from a strong government and certainly no unnecessary taxes. The first European settlers who arrived in…
Following America’s war of independence, 1775 – 1783, Charleston, South Carolina native, John Faucheraud Grimke’, born in 1752, became a successful lawyer, judge, legislator, mayor of Charleston, plantation owner, slave owner, and wrote books on South Carolina law that were…
There is never a good side to a war. But one of its byproducts is that sometimes the people dislocated by it are able to put their talents and abilities to good use in their new home. This was the…
Henry Woodward comes into history as a twenty-year-old on June 22, 1666 aboard the ship Berkeley Bay on a voyage of exploration with Lt. Col. Robert Sandford. They along with twenty others in two small ships had sailed south from…
As the ship Berkeley Bay slowly turned northwest out of the Atlantic Ocean into what would later be called South Carolina’s North Edisto River, Lt. Colonel Robert Sandford leaned against the rail to get a good look at the lush,…
The Preamble to the United States Constitution reads: We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the…
Many of us face situations in which we must make a choice whether to be loyal to one cause or another. Some choices are easy. Do we want to shop at this same store today or try another one? Others…
If you are a genius, change the course of human history, and win a Nobel Prize in physics, you could get some bubbles named after you. Enrico Fermi was born in Rome in 1901. His mind developed quickly, and at…
