Stoudt had an “aha” moment: Why not create a waterproof cloth tape to seal the boxes instead? She suggested it to her supervisors but didn’t find the support she was looking for. So Stoudt did what anyone would do: On February 10, 1943, she wrote a letter to President Franklin D....
But the king was not content with this reply, and began to press the old man to say what he knew, which for a long time he would not do. At last, however, the king urged him so greatly that he said:'The king's daughter will marry the son of a poor slave-girl called Puruna,...
The lead vocalist of Toots and the Maytals literally invented reggae, or at least gave it its name. Specifically, the genre took its name from his song “Do the Reggay,” the reggay then being the name of a dance craze in Jamaica; the word subsequently came to be applied to the nascent...
(October 6, 1846 – March 12, 1914) was an American entrepreneur and engineer based in Pennsylvania who invented the railway air brake and was a pioneer of the electrical industry, gaining his first patent at the age of 19. Westinghouse saw the potential in alternating current as an ...
Anyone who has spent any time in New Zealand or around Kiwis wouldn’t be surprised for a second to learn that bungee jumping was basically invented, at least commercially, by jumping off this perfectly nice bridge into a terrifying gorge. Anyone who has spent any significant time around us ...
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We are every walk of life, existing in every known and unknown space in the universe since the dawn of time but we remained in the shadows until musicals were invented. We are all actively trying to kill Jennifer Coolidge and we love brunch. Like, love it. An iconic Season one episode ...
ainpress 正在翻译,请等待... [translate] a在没有发明纸以前,古代各国人民曾想尽办法,利用各种东西记录 In has not invented before the paper, ancient times the various countries' people once did everything possible, use each kind of thing recording[translate] ...
‘Hairy books’ bound by medieval monks are covered in sealskin, study findsBook bound in the skin of a 19th-century Suffolk murderer goes on displayGun Owners Group Calls for Federal Inquiry Into Firearms Industry’s Secret Sharing of Customer DataPenultimatum:“A demand or proposal approaching...
native Marshallese children played in and even licked the radioactive dust, leading to hundreds of cases of radiation sickness and other health effects. Back on Bikini, the firing crew on Enyu found themselves trapped in the bunker by the fallout, forcing them to seal themselves inside for hour...