William James Sidis in The Tribes and the States claimed the public library, as such, was an American invention.

Sidis claims the first public library was Boston's in 1636, although the official Boston Public Library was organized later in 1852.

Although derived from his experience of Hindu mysticism, and referred to as ' mystical socialism ', his thoughts parallel those of several writers in the field of psychology and sociology at the start of the twentieth century, such as Boris Sidis, Sigmund Freud and Wilfred Trotter who all recognised that society puts ever increasing pressure on the individual that can result in mental and physical illnesses such as neurosis and the particular nervousness which was then described as neurasthenia.

On the other hand, there was a sharp peak in interest in dissociation in America from 1890 to 1910, especially in Boston as reflected in the work of William James, Boris Sidis, Morton Prince, and William McDougall.

William James Sidis (; April 1, 1898 – July 17, 1944 ) was an American child prodigy with exceptional mathematical and linguistic abilities.

It was later acknowledged, however, that some of the claims made were exaggerations, with a researcher stating " I have been researching the veracity of primary sources of various subjects for about twenty-eight years, and never before have I found a topic so satiated with lies, myths, half-truths, exaggerations, and other forms of misinformation as is in the history behind William Sidis ".

William James Sidis was born to Jewish Ukrainian immigrants on April 1, 1898, in New York City.

Although the University had previously refused to let his father enroll him at age nine because he was still a child, Sidis set a record in 1909 by becoming the youngest person to enroll at Harvard University.

In early 1910, Sidis ' mastery of higher mathematics was such that he lectured the Harvard Mathematical Club on four-dimensional bodies.

After less than a year, frustrated with the department, his teaching requirements, and his treatment by students older than he was, Sidis left his post and returned to New England.

In 1919, shortly after his withdrawal from law school, Sidis was arrested for participating in a socialist May Day parade in Boston that turned violent.

Sidis was also a " peridromophile ," a term he coined for people fascinated with transportation research and streetcar systems.

In 1930, Sidis was awarded a patent for a rotary perpetual calendar that took into account leap years.

Abraham Sperling, director of New York City's Aptitude Testing Institute, allegedly said after Sidis ' death that according to his calculations, Sidis " easily had an IQ between 250 and 300 ", meaning that at some time his intellectual age was 2. 5 to 3 times his actual age ( not the same scale as modern deviation IQ ).

" This claim was not backed by any other source outside the Sidis family and Sarah Sidis also made an improbable claim in her 1950 book The Sidis Story that William could learn a language in just one day.

In a visit to his mother's home I was permitted to see the contents of a trunkful of original manuscript material that Bill Sidis composed.

Sidis is also discussed in Ex-Prodigy, an autobiography by mathematician Norbert Wiener ( 1894 – 1964 ), who was a prodigy himself and a contemporary of Sidis at Harvard.

A Danish author, Morten Brask, wrote a fictional novel based on Sidis ' life ; " The Perfect Life of William Sidis " was published in Denmark in 2011.

The difficulties Sidis encountered in dealing with the social structure of a collegiate setting may have shaped opinion against allowing such children to rapidly advance through higher education in his day.

* April 1 – William James Sidis, American mathematician ( d. 1944 )

Sidis became famous first for his precocity and later for his eccentricity and withdrawal from public life.

His father Boris Sidis, Ph. D., M. D., had emigrated in 1887 to escape political persecution.

His mother Sarah Mandelbaum Sidis, M. D., and her family had fled the pogroms in 1889.

Sidis could read the New York Times at 18 months, had reportedly taught himself eight languages ( Latin, Greek, French, Russian, German, Hebrew, Turkish, and Armenian ) by age eight, and invented another, which he called Vendergood.

MIT professor Daniel F. Comstock predicted that Sidis would become a great mathematician and a leader in that science in the future.

Sidis began taking a full-time course load in 1910 and earned his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, on June 18, 1914, at age 16.

The paper reported Sidis ' vows to remain celibate and never to marry, as he said women did not appeal to him.

After a group of Harvard students threatened Sidis physically, his parents secured him a job at the William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science, and Art ( now Rice University ) in Houston, Texas as a mathematics teaching assistant.

" Sidis abandoned his pursuit of a graduate degree in mathematics and enrolled at the Harvard Law School in September 1916, but withdrew in good standing in his final year in March 1919.

Sidis ' arrest featured prominently in newspapers, as his early graduation from Harvard had garnered considerable local celebrity status.

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Andromeda was portrayed by Judi Bowker in this film.

Andromeda was portrayed by Alexa Davalos.

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Isis, an Egyptian goddess who represented, among many other things, ideal motherhood, was often portrayed as suckling pharaohs, thereby confirming their divine status as rulers.

There were exceptions: Aphrodite, the goddess of love, was more frequently portrayed fully nude, though in postures that were intended to portray shyness or modesty, a portrayal that has been compared to modern pin ups by historian Marilyn Yalom.

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Boudica has been the subject of two feature films, the 1928 film Boadicea, where she was portrayed by Phyllis Neilson-Terry, and 2003's Boudica ( Warrior Queen in the US ), a UK TV film written by Andrew Davies and starring Alex Kingston as Boudica.