As author of one of the most famous lines in American History, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” Thomas Jefferson is an incredibly powerful icon. Not just a wordsmith, the third president of the United States was proficient in four languages and excelled at math, philosophy, history, and the languages as a student at the College of William and Mary. He continued on to become an accomplished architect, author, inventor, musician, lawyer, ornithologist, paleontologist, archaeologist, and poet. When addressing a room full of Nobel Prize laureates, John F. Kennedy once remarked, “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the
