In 1928 Byrd — already known for his exploits at the North Pole — began his first expedition to the Antarctic, a land that was as remote to explorers in the 1920s as the moon was to us in the 1960s. On Nov. 28-29, 1929, Byrd — along with pilot Bernt Balchen, co-pilot/radio...
The Central Park Zoo was not part of the original Olmstead-Vaux plan for the park, but beginning in 1859 it evolved spontaneously as a menagerie located near the Arsenal; its odd collection of animals included exotic pets donated as gifts, and other random creatures including a bear, a monkey...
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Because yes my friends, this is the city (I use that term loosely here since this town is pretty small) where the first women’s rights convention was held in the US in July 1848 – an important historical event that signaled the start of the American women’s suffrage movement. As a ...
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The Nabta Playa site in the Sudan near Khartoum aroused a lot of interest in the past because the remains seemed to be quite old. However, the plant material was all carbonized and difficult to identify. Wetterstrom (1998) points out that: “On the basis of modern sorghum distribution, the...
Ford Ford: then The Ford Motor Company was incorporated in 1903. By the time it sold the first Model A, the company had spent nearly all the $28,000 the company had in the bank. A mere three months later, they'd turned a profit of $37,000. Ford: now Ford Ford: now Ford's fir...
to establish United Artists Company. Another Canadian-born actor is Glenn Ford (1916– ), originally Gwyllyn Samuel Newton Ford; born in Québec City, he attended high school in Santa Monica, California; his films includeDestroyer(1943),Cimarron(1961), andSuperman(1978); Ford served with the...
near a smoky BBQ, waving. The parachutist can’t yet confirm that she’s landing in the midst of the right people but she likes the look of them, the way they’re starting to part a little so that she can land safely amongst them. Please, let them be my family, she thinks, ...
He then offers an “immortal quotation” from the journal of William Clark: “O, joy. Ocian in view,” referring to the explorers’ premature perception they had reached the ocean at Astoria. Landing at the Astoria Mooring Basin marina, Heat-Moon steps from the boat to express his own joy...