Tag: anniversary

Joseph Conrad – 100th Anniversary of his Death

.Reading time 4 minutes.

August 3, 2024, marks one hundred years since the death of Joseph Conrad, one of English literature’s most revered writers.  Born in 1857 as Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in Poland, he was raised in Russia due to his father being forced into exile there.  After his parents died, his uncle brought him back to Poland and had […]

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Remembering Marie Curie 90 Years Later

.Reading time 8 minutes.

Ninety years ago, on July 4, 1934, one of the world’s most influential and greatest scientists passed away.  Marie Curie, the first woman to win the Nobel Prize and the only woman to win a Nobel Prize for two separate scientific fields, died as a result of aplastic anemia caused by the action of radiation. Born as […]

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