It has been an ongoing joke that Leonardo DiCaprio has never won an Oscar, but I'd like to think that they only joke about it because it's surprising, not because it hasn't been well-deserved. Although, the joke could come to an end in 2016 if DiCaprio wins the Academy Award for his work in The Revenant.
Dewey invented the Dewey Decimal Classification Â® (DDC) system when he was 21 and working as a student assistant in the library of Amherst College.His work created a revolution in library science and set in motion a new era of librarianship.Melvil Dewey well deserves the title of Father of Modern Librarianship..ewey invented the Dewey Decimal Classification Â® (DDC) system when he was 21 and working as a student assistant in the library of Amherst College. His work created a revolution in library science and set in motion a new era of librarianship. Melvil Dewey well deserves the title of Father of Modern Librarianship..
1 July 31 The Library Company of Philadelphia, the first public institution of that kind in America, was founded in Philadelphia by Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Hopkinson, Thomas Cadwalader and others. Philadelphia philanthropists formed the first Anti-Slavery Society. 2  The physicians of Philadelphia formed the Society for Inoculating the Poor, the first benevolent association designed to mitigate the horrors of small-pox founded in the Colonies.