1550: Chocolate is introduced in Europe, and the Mexican drink creates a passion that endures after nearly half a millennium.
Europe came late to the joys of chocolate. Native to Mexico, Central and South America, cacao cultivation dates to at least 1250 B.C., according to archaeologists.
Mayans grew cacao trees in their backyards and used the seeds [...]
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July 7, 1550: Europeans Discover Chocolate
July 7th, 2010 |
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Jan. 8, 1942: Birthday of a First-Rate Mind, and a Medical Marvel
January 8th, 2010 |
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1942: British physicist Stephen Hawking is born.
Hawking was born in Oxford, where his parents moved to escape the German Blitz on London. His website notes, in an interesting historical aside, that his birth came on the 300th anniversary of Galileo’s death.
Though naturally predisposed to mathematics, young Hawking switched to physics, because University College at Oxford [...]