Woodrow Wilson

In 1886, Woodrow Wilson was awarded a doctorate in history and government from Johns Hopkins University. He is the only U.S. President to have earned a Ph.D.

Charles Krauthammer

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”

Ph.D. President

Who is the only President of the United States to hold a doctorate (Ph.D.) degree (not an honorary one)?

Born Michael King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr.’s name when he was born on January 15, 1929, was Michael not Martin.

In 1934, his father, a pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, traveled to Germany. Inspired by Martin Luther, the leader of the Protestant Reformation, King Sr. not only changed his own name to Martin Luther, but that of his then five-year-old son. The rest, as they say, is history!

George Orwell

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

Ernst Leitz II

The German camera company, Leica, got its name from its founder, Ernest Leitz II who used the first three letters of his last name and combined them with the first two letters of the word “camera.”

Ernst Leitz II was the second son of Ernst Leitz I and the second
head of the optics company founded by his father. Now known as Leica Camera he became the sole shareholder of the company after his father’s death in 1920. Although initially focusing on developing binocular microscopes that could be used for high magnifications, collaborating with Oskar Barnack and using interchangeable lenses developed by Max Berek the small lightweight 35mm Leica camera began being distributed around the world in 1925. Using rolls of film capable of 36 shots, the world of live photography available to the masses began!

Leitz inherited his father’s social conscience and established an employee support and pension fund and a company health insurance fund. The company introduced an 8-hour workday as early as 1906, twelve years before it was required by law and while Jews were becoming economically and socially ostracized by the Nazi regime in Germany in the mid-1930s, Leitz offered training programs and apprenticeships to Jewish people in his factory. He also organized the Leica Freedom Train to allow people to escape Germany during Nazi regime.

Scott Adams

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”

Leica

Where did the name “Leica,” the German camera company and brand, come from?