Historical Diaries

German Scientists Discover X-rays   On this day in the year 1895, a mechanical physicist Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen becomes the first person to observe X-rays, a significant scientific advancement that would ultimately benefit a variety of fields, most of all medicine, by making the invisible visible. Rontgen’s discovery occurred accidentally in his Wurzburg, Germany, lab, where he was testing whether cathode rays could pass through glass when he noticed a glow coming from a nearby chemically coated screen. He dubbed the rays that caused this glow X-rays because of their unknown nature, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.      X-ray is an an electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light. It is a photographic or digital image of the internal composition of something, especially a part of the body, produced by X-rays being passed through it and being absorbed to di

A Philosopher is Born   Herbert Spencer (27 April 1820 – 8 December 1903) was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian period. Spencer is most popular for the articulation "survival of the fittest", which he began in Principles of Biology (1864), in the wake of reading Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. This term emphatically recommends natural selection, yet as Spencer expanded evolution into domains of sociology and ethics, he likewise utilized Lamarckism.   In the year 1902, shortly before the death of Spencer, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for literature, that was assigned to Theodor Mommsen, a man of German descent. He continued writing all his life in later years often by dictation, until he succumbed to poor health at the age of 83. His ashes are interred in the eastern side of London's Highgate Cemetery facing Karl Marx's grave. Herbe

 In History, there are Ancient gods of the underworld and the afterlife. Egypt in particular is a home to some Ancient gods. This post will focus on Egyptian gods Mythologies. Set  This God was known to be aggressive, he dismembered Osiris and thus he often as possible fought with Osiris, his child Horus giving rise to one of the classic tales of Egyptian mythology. At last, Set complemented Horus' rule of the arable land by assuming responsibility for Egyptian deserts. He has been criticized for his conspiring ways either inside his own family hierarchy or by attempting to allure Horus for more power. In the end the Red Desert belonged to Set. God of Chaos Set Horus  This God assumes a significant role in the Osiris myth regarded as God of hunting, war and the sky. He wore various hats on his falcon head and the Egyptian Pharaohs were known to be the human embodiment of him. With regards to his lasting heritage in the contemporary world there is "The