Gravitys Revolt: Part Two

But she wrote in many forms —poetry, fiction, non-fiction—and was a formidable critic.

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This biography fills a big gap in understanding. A book by the anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston that few knew existed! Based on interviews that Hurston did with Cudjo Lewis in the early s. Lewis was a survivor of the last slave ship from Africa known to have made the transatlantic journey.

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The book was never published until now -- a story in itself. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas Starr Carter is constantly switching between two worlds--the poor, mostly Black neighborhood where she lives and the wealthy, mostly white prep school that she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is soon shattered when she witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend by the police.

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Prison Nation, an issue of Aperture Magazine edited by Nicole Fleetwood A powerful and haunting collection of photography and essays published as an issue of Aperture Magazine. Documents the horror of mass incarceration in ways rarely seen.

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Newton was also an ardent student of history and religious doctrines, his writings on those subjects compiled into multiple books that were published posthumously. Having never married, Newton spent his later years living with his niece at Cranbury Park, near Winchester, England. He died on March 31, , and was buried in Westminster Abbey.

A giant even among the brilliant minds that drove the Scientific Revolution, Newton is remembered as a transformative scholar, inventor and writer. He eradicated any doubts about the heliocentric model of the universe by establishing celestial mechanics, his precise methodology giving birth to what is known as the scientific method. Although his theories of space-time and gravity eventually gave way to those of Albert Einstein , his work remains the bedrock on which modern physics was built.

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Considered the father of modern science, Galileo Galilei made major contributions to the fields of physics, astronomy, cosmology, mathematics and philosophy. He invented an improved telescope that let him observe and describe the moons of Jupiter, the rings of The German-born physicist Albert Einstein developed the first of his groundbreaking theories while working as a clerk in the Swiss patent office in Bern.

After making his name with four scientific articles published in , he went on to win worldwide fame for his general The father of modern astronomy, he was the first modern European scientist to propose that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. Copernicus was born into a His unhappy childhood helped shape his secretive personality. Galileo was ordered to turn himself in to the Holy Office to begin trial for holding the belief that the Italian inventor and engineer Guglielmo Marconi developed, demonstrated and marketed the first successful long-distance wireless telegraph and in broadcast the first transatlantic radio signal.

Wilbur and Orville Wright were American inventors and pioneers of aviation.