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Sep 21 Rev Thomas Bayes - father of statistics

Today in 1701 Thomas Bayes was born into a prominent nonconformist family from Sheffield. He would be known for formulating: Bayes'...

Aug 29, 20213 min read

Aug 27 The first businessman to be declared a saint?

Today it's 1962 and we travel to Argentina where Enrique Ernesto Shaw, the Founder of the Christian Association of Business Executives...

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July 5 Thomas Cook transforms temperance into tourism

Today we travel to Leicester in England where Thomas Cook organised his first rail excursion for a day out to Loughborough. 500 people...

May 27, 20213 min read

May 28 William Cogate and Tithing

Today we go back to year 1795 and travel to Baltimore where, a young William Colgate arrived in the US and settled in Harford County,...

Mar 3, 20212 min read

Mar 4 Williams Penn's Holy Experiment - Philadelphia and Pennsylvania

Today in 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings to William Penn in order to pay off debts to...

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