About Us. 1  Tidewater Finance Company was established in 1992 and is proud to serve as one of the leading subprime lenders in the indirect finance industry. 2  As a nationwide special finance provider, TMC works with both independent and franchise dealerships to provide subprime auto financing options to customers.
Best known as: The first African-American to fly in space. Astronaut Guion Bluford became the first African-American in space when he flew on the space shuttle Challenger in 1983. Bluford was a former Air Force fighter pilot who flew 144 combat missions in the Vietnam War in 1966-67.
William Bateson (8 August 1861 â 8 February 1926) was an English biologist who was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity, and the chief populariser of the ideas of Gregor Mendel following their rediscovery in 1900 by Hugo de Vries and Carl Correns. 1 Biography.