Oppenheimer had built the weapon that won the war, but he also had created a monster, which he warned would one day cause the world to curse the names Los Alamos and Hiroshima. In 1947 he said, "If there is another world war, this civilization may go under." ...
(central nervous system) may also fail, but in this case life support is directed at keeping the other body systems functioning so that the nervous system has time to return to a state where it can again support the other body functions. The most common types of life support are for the...
Jessica Tandy probably is best known for winning an Academy Award in 1989 for the movie Driving Miss Dairy. She was the oldest person to have won the award. But for many years, she had received praise for her great performances. Jessica Tandy was born in London in 1909. After her father...
before Facebook existed and even before the term “social media” entered common usage; in part to show how things turned out both differently and similarly to what we expected; and largely, I think
During the Occupation, young Eugenia was about 10 years old and the Nazi atrocities marked her throughout her later life. Even more because, in September 43, two of her classmates were executed at the Aristotelous Square of Thessaloniki by the Nazis. ...
116-year-old Kane is six years shy of the record foroldest person ever, which has been held by Jeanne Louise Calment (France) for the past 22 years. Born on 21 February 1875, Jeanne died at a nursing home in Arles, southern France on 4 August 1997 at the age of 122...
Qian Zhongshu was one of the most famous Chinese writers to the western world.Born on November 21,1910 in Wuxi,Jiangsu Province,he grew up with his uncle,who didn't have a son.Qian liked reading books and had a surprising memory (记忆力).He only needed to read something once before lea...
This version is performed by Alan Marks. 2. Leo Ornstein Suicide in an Airplane 3.44 Born in 1893 in Kremenchuk, a large town in the Ukraine, as a child Ornstein studied at Petrograd Conservatory before emigrating to the United States. Two years after making his New York debut performing ...
Chuck Yeager is an American test pilot who was the first person to break the sound barrier — the point where a speeding object (such as an airplane) passes the speed of sound. Yeager made his history-setting flight on Oct. 14, 1947 in an airplane he dubbed Glamorous Glennis, after his...
In 2010, Hudson High School became the first high school in the United States to elect gay students as king and queen. James Patterson Getty Images James Patterson Author James Patterson was born in 1947 in Newburgh. George Custer Getty Images George Custer A funeral was held for American ca...