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Maya Angelou Quote – History
“History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage doesn’t need to be lived again.” – Maya Angelou
Read moreDwight D. Eisenhower Quote – The Tracks of History
“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Read moreThe History of Antarctic Exploration
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100 Year Old Box of Negatives Found Frozen In Antarctica’s Ice
While restoring one of the exploration huts in Antarctica, Conservators of the New Zealand Antarctic Heritage Trust discovered a 100 year old box that turned out to be a remarkable treasure. It contained 22 never-before-seen cellulose nitrate negatives documenting the life of Antarctic explorers a 100 years back. Preserved in a block of ice, this 100 year old box of negatives […]
Read moreCartoon – The Real Reason Dinosaurs Become Extinct
Tracing The Moon’s Origins
Some new thinking may have brought astronomers a step closer to solving the mystery of how our moon formed. Researchers have long believed that the moon was cleaved from a Mars-sized planet that collided with Earth some 4.5 billion years ago. Yet recent tests of lunar rock samples suggest that the moon’s chemical makeup is too similar to Earth’s to […]
Read moreThomas Cahill Quote – History
“We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage — almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments […]
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