Roger Bacon, byname Doctor Mirabilis (Latin: “Wonderful Teacher”), (born c. 1220, Ilchester, Somerset, or Bisley, Gloucester?, England—died 1292, Oxford?), English Franciscan philosopher and educational reformer who was a major medieval proponent of experimental science. Bacon studied...
David Farragut was a U.S. admiral who achieved fame for his outstanding Union naval victories during the American Civil War (1861–65). Farragut was befriended as a youth in New Orleans by Captain (later Commodore) David Porter (of the U.S. Navy), who adopted him. Farragut served under Porter aboard