The former “Retreat to the Springs” is under new management, but will continue to offer an intensive, personal workshop for aspiring writers in the wonderful setting of Yellow Springs, Ohio. Now called“Into the Springs Writers Workshop” and led by Sandra J. Kachurek, with the able assis...
Well worth a visit to see where they right brothers invented the built the first aircraft. National Park Guide was informative and very professional. Foundation of Wright brother house are around the corner - the house was moved by Henry Ford to his museum in Detroit- their graves are also ...
Rumor has it zip-lining was invented in Costa Rica by nature researchers, but regardless of how the adventure activity got its start, it’s now one of the most popular and best things to do in Costa Rica. Experience jungles and cloud forests from above by soaring between platform perches i...
3M in St. Paul invented. Yes, invented by Minnesotans. Post-In Notes Piotr Romantowski/ThinkStock Post-In Notes All thanks to another bunch of Minnesotans at 3M. The Miracle On Ice Getty Images The Miracle On Ice A bunch of Minnesota kids (+ a few others) playing for Herb Brooks, thei...
General Electric gets its knack for invention from its founder, Thomas Edison, who invented both the incandescent light bulb and the electrical grid. The scripted GE letters in the logo date back to the 1890s, although they've been streamlined a bit over the years. Logo #23 Todd Wickersty...
In mathematics, blowing up or blowup is a type of geometric transformation which replaces a subspace of a given space with all the directions pointing out of that subspace. For example, the blowup of a point in a plane replaces the point with the projectivized tangent space at that point...