Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
William Crookes
Born: June 17, 1832
Died: April 4, 1919 (aged 86)
Bio: Sir William Crookes was an English chemist and physicist who attended the Royal College of Chemistry, London, and worked on spectroscopy. He was a pioneer of vacuum tubes, inventing the Crookes tube which was made in 1875.
Known for:
- Researches in the Phenomena of Spiritualism (1874)
- Diamonds (1905)