General Educational Development: Facts

Facts on topics related to General Educational Development

classical compounds make up much of the technical and scientific lexicon of Western European languages?
Eastern Mountain Sports employees are required to take a training course covering not only store policies, product information, and sales techniques, but also the science behind all the products they sell?
in the name of science, American nurse Clara Maass volunteered to be bitten by yellow fever-carrying mosquitoes seven times, caught the disease twice, and ultimately died from it?
philanthropist Dorothy Cullman and her husband, Lewis Cullman, donated over $250 million in support of the arts, science, and education?
the Regency era British women's magazine La Belle Assemblée featured original fiction and articles on politics and science in addition to fashion plates?
the science and technology magazine Food Technology was originally a scientific journal?
the science-based panel game The What in the World? Quiz guest stars appearances from The Naked Scientists?
the Society of Friends of Science, first Polish scientific organization, founded in 1800, originated from the Thursday's dinners custom held by the last king of Poland, Stanisław August Poniatowski?

architect, former partner at Skidmore Owings & Merrill, and founder of Lucien Lagrange Architects, Lucien Lagrange was a high school dropout?
Colorado Rep. Stella Garza-Hicks dropped out of high school in the ninth grade?
Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets American college basketball player Thaddeus Young (pictured) was a McDonald's All-American and graduated from high school with a 4.3 grade point average?
Matthew Vassar's Springside estate (pictured), Andrew Jackson Downing's only extant work, has been a proposed site for a cemetery, high school and condominiums?
John "Bam" Carney, a Republican member of the Kentucky House of Representatives, became well-known in his district through his work as a high school basketball coach?
John Pittenger, former Pennsylvania Secretary of Education, was the first legislator to regularly employ high school seniors as legislative pages in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives?
Katie Sierra was accused of treason and suspended from high school in October 2001 for attempting to start an anarchist club?
Murray Raney, who developed the Raney nickel catalyst, did not attend high school?
Ossie Brown, a criminal defense lawyer and former district attorney in Baton Rouge, composed his high school alma mater?
Will Harvey created his first commercial computer game when he was only 15 and still in high school?

Danish geologist Hinrich Johannes Rink was the founder of Atuagagdliutit, the first Kalaallisut language newspaper?
geologically, Massacre Rocks State Park was created during repeated volcanic activity on the Snake River Plain?
geology professor Lawrence Wager was an Arctic explorer and mountaineer who in 1933 reached the highest point yet climbed on Mount Everest?
neotectonics is the study of geologically recent tectonics, but a clear consensus does not always exist over how far back in time "geologically recent" is?
German geologist Heinrich Edmund Naumann discovered a new species of fossil elephant in Japan?
because of its unique geology, a 230 hectare area of Rosthwaite Fell (pictured) in Cumbria, England was declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest in 1985?

Italian mathematician Guido Castelnuovo secretly taught geometry to Jewish students during World War II?
Elbert Frank Cox was the first black person in the world to get a Ph.D in mathematics?
Fischer Black Prize, first awarded in 2003, is the finance analogue to the Clark Medal in economics and the Fields Medal in mathematics, introduced in 1947 and 1936, respectively?
Frank Ryan earned a Ph.D. in mathematics while playing quarterback for the Cleveland Browns?
James W. Patterson, a Senator from New Hampshire, was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, and meteorology?
Max Noether, called "one of the greatest mathematicians of the nineteenth century", learned advanced mathematics mostly through self-study?
Nathan Daboll wrote the mathematics textbook most commonly used in American schools during the first half of the 19th century?
Sigve Tjøtta, retired mathematics professor and a member of the Acoustical Society of America, competed in a half marathon at age 75?
stitch markers (pictured) are mnemonic devices that demonstrate the underlying mathematical basis of crochet?
Ostomachion is a mathematical treatise attributed to Archimedes on a 14-piece tiling puzzle (pictured) similar to tangram?