Long before the Texas Instruments LEDcalculator, or even the slide rule, there was another type of computer: the astrolabe. The device took its name, ultimately, from the Greek word astrolabos, or "star-taking."Astrolabeswere used primarily to make astronomical measurements, typically of the al...
Ruled by Venus, Taurus is an Earth sign. It invites us to honor the physical world in which we find ourselves. Not to transcend it, but to sink into it, embrace it, and fall in love with it. It draws us into the pleasures of being alive, the senses of our body, and all things ...
Louis. As a result of this flight Lindbergh was the first person in history to be in New York one day and Paris the next. CHARLES PONZI - (1882-1949). Italian businessman and con artist in the U.S. and Canada. Born in Italy, he became known in the early 1920s as a swindler in...
like most of other students. In 2007, I took the entrance examination for university, and by my hard work, I was admitted to a college in Weifang, Shandong Province. That was the first time for me to leave home, so I was like a fish out of water at first. Lat 然后,我通过我的中学...
Loglo was headed there to observe a 6-year-old girl he was told had real potential. It was hardly the first time he'd heard such a claim. Tennis academies had grown exponentially in Palm Beach County in prior decades. The belief among the region's parents that their kid was the next...
I was like, “Go Margie Go!” Margie’s story is told through the lens of her granddaughter Madeleine who finds Margie’s old diaries in a trunk in her mother’s house. The diaries reveal Margie’s secret life in Paris, inspiring Madeleine to rediscover her artistic talents and to pursue...
she always was the first to speak...” 她总是主动先说话···” But it happened that after walking for a long time through sand, and rocks, and snow, the little prince at last came upon a road. 小王子用了好长时间,穿越了沙漠、岩石和冰雪,最终来到一条大路上。 And all roads lead to ...
In addition, there is also controversy over who was the first to observe sunspots during the 17th century using a telescope. Whereas Galileo is believed to have observed them in 1610, he did not publish about them and only began speaking to astronomers in Rome about them by the following yea...
I don't recall dialing the 3 numbers that normally come before the 4 digits. When the connection was made, a woman answered the phone. She sounded angelic, and I pictured her as elderly with white hair. I asked for the person I was calling, and she said, "Oh! Barbara used to live...
Bethune’s inspiring life storyis hard to match. The daughter of former slaves, Bethune grew up in South Carolina and was the only child in her family to go to school. She earned a scholarship to a female seminary in North Carolina and then to the Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illino...