by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 31, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Charles Darwin was one of the most influential scientists of all time. He was the first person to clearly define evolution as selective breeding in which favorable variations in an organism are passed on, and unfavorable variations are dropped, so that the species on...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 22, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Kenny Rogers recorded 65 albums, sold more than 165 million records, was elected to the Country Music Hall of Fame, and sang more than 120 hit singles that were the top recordings in the country for a total of more than 200 weeks. To be one of the best and most famous...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 16, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Bobbie Battista was one of the original CNN cable news anchors, starting in 1981 and continuing to broadcast there for 20 years. She reported on: • the fall of the Berlin Wall, • the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, • the Gulf War, • the terrorist attacks on...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 9, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Eva Szekely was brought up in Nazi-occupied Hungary in the 1930s and 1940s. Six million Jews were killed during the holocaust in Europe, including 70 percent of the Jewish population in Hungary. When she was 17, in the winter of 1944, members of Hungary’s fascist...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Mar 3, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
At the turn of the 20th century, cyclist Marshall “Major” Taylor became the first African-American sports hero. That was 10 years before Jackie Robinson was even born and 50 years before he broke the color barrier in major-league baseball. Jack Johnson...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Feb 18, 2020 | Deaths of Famous People
Paul English was Willie Nelson’s drummer and best friend for nearly sixty years. In 2014, English told a Rolling Stone writer that Willie Nelson had saved his life, saying, “If I hadn’t gone with Willie, I would be in the penitentiary or dead.” They...
