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4 hours ago · Updated 4:00 PM PDT, September 30, 2024. In “John Lewis: A Life,” David Greenberg recounts how the late Democratic congressman reacted after Republicans scored a landslide victory in the 1994 election. A staffer hoped Lewis would buoy her spirits and tell her there was a silver lining. Lewis instead told her, “There is no silver lining.”.
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1 day ago · Meriwether Lewis (35), an American explorer who helped explore territory bought during the Louisiana Purchase, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds in an inn along the Natchez Trace, a nature trail in Tennessee, in 1809. Though it was originally declared a suicide, historians debate whether it was murder or suicide due to the nature of his injuries and the lack of a thorough autopsy.
1 day ago · Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz or Leibnitz[ a ] (1 July 1646 [ O.S. 21 June] – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is disputed with Sir Isaac Newton to have invented calculus in addition to many other branches of mathematics, such as binary arithmetic, and statistics.
1 day ago · Roxane Gay, writer and professor. Roberto S. Goizueta (B.A., 1976), professor of theology, Boston College. Daniel Harrison (Ph.D 1986), Chairman of Department of Music, Yale University. Lena Hill (Ph.D. 2005), professor of English and Africana studies, provost of Washington and Lee University.
