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Only 65 years separated the flights of the Wright Brothers and the Apollo 11 crew.
July 17, 2019Paredoilia is the tendency to reconcile vague shapes as something you’re familiar with, like seeing shapes in clouds the craters of the moon: a little baby, a man…or a rabbit.
July 11, 2019The USSR takes the first major step forward in the Space Race.
July 5, 2019You’re listening to Marian Anderson with “Heav’n, Heav’n”, a Masterpiece 78 from 1943, and You’re on the Sound Beat. When Marian Anderson performed at Princeton University in 1937, she was one of the most famous singers in the world. None other than Arturo Toscanini, once told her she had a voice “heard once in a hundred years”. ...
June 5, 2019Before Frederick Douglass worked to free others, he had to free himself.
April 5, 2019