W.E.B. Du Bois articulated the idea of the Talented Tenth in a 1903 essay of the same title. In the essay he argues for the liberal education of talented Black youth. While others were more supportitive of industurial and labor intensive training for all Blacks, Du Bois pointed out that the newly emancipated people needed leaders and teachers with a high degree of liberal knowledge.
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The term Talented Tenth, as used by W.E.B. Du Bois, described the chances of black men becoming leaders of the black race in the world. He felt the likelihood was one in ten.
Besides discovering the photoelectric effect, Einstein developed the Theory of Special Relativity and the Theory of General Relativity, which are the basis for quantum theory and particle theory, and the formula E=Mc2 that indirectly led to the atomic bomb, nuclear power, and much of the current theory about the structure of the universe. Other than that, not much.
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During the tenth century, the country of Greenland was Christianized. Central Vietnam also received its independence from the country of China.