1 Carol Armstrong found bag in Ohio house after husband Neil, the first man to walk on the moon, died in 2012.  The so-called McDivitt purse contained priceless Apollo 11 items such as a camera that filmed moon descent.
Originally named Araminta, or Minty, Harriet Tubman was born in early 1822 on the plantation of Anthony Thompson, south of Madison in Dorchester County, Maryland.Tubman was the fifth of nine children of Harriet Rit Green and Benjamin Ross, both slaves.ubman, Harriet Ross (1822-1913). Born into slavery on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Tubman gained international acclaim as an Underground Railroad operator, abolitionist, Civil War spy and nurse, suffragist, and humanitarian.
His life... Dmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev (1834~1907), accessed 15th February, 2013. Mendeleev was born in Tobolsk (in Siberia), Russia on February 7th, 1834, and was the youngest of a family of 10~17 children (the exact number is disputed).he process of writing and developing this textbook was what had led Mendeleev to his most famous discovery; the discovery of the Periodic Table and the Periodic Law (1869). Mendeleev had 2 wives. His first wife, Feozva Nikitchna Lascheva, was suggested to him by his sister, Olga.