who wrote of a voyager to the Moon finding a utopian society of men free from war, disease, and hunger. (See belowUtopias and dystopias.) The voyager eats fruit from the biblical tree of knowledge and joins lunar society as a philosopher—that is, until he is expelled from the Moon for...
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheusis published. The book, by 20-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, is frequently called the world’s first science fiction novel. In Shelley’s tale, a scientist animates a creature constructed from dismembered corpses. The gentle, intellectually gifted creatu...
"That may be the Angriest, Least Compassionate, and Worst State of the Union Speech ever made," Trump wrote when Biden was finished. "It was an Embarrassment to our Country!" Share This is a modal window. An unanticipated problem was encountered, check back soon and try again Error ...
Gordin continued, "There are two basic ways that Mendeleev could have moved from a recognition of the importance of atomic weight as a good classifying tool to a draft of a periodic system: either he wrote out the elements in order of atomic weight in rows and noticed periodic repetition or...
When former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee ran for president in 2008, the Republican politician blasted Boston’s “More Than a Feeling” at his rallies. "Boston has never endorsed a political candidate," wrote Boston founder Tom Scholz, "and with all due respect, would not start by endorsing...
Urban Development, was one of the longest-serving cabinet secretaries during Trump's administration. He is also allegedly still on the VP short list — Carson remained loyal to the former president after Jan. 6, when several cabinet secretaries resigned in protest, citing theattack on the ...
And then there is the artist that chooses to get directly involved and run for office. Some of them are doing it to change the lives of people around them, and other just run as a gag to protest the lunacy of the whole election process. Some wind up winning and have even reached high...
ButWalk the Lineisn't just a one-man show. Reese Witherspoon deservedly picked up a Best Actress Oscar for her feisty portrayal ofJune Carter Cash, the singer's partner in both life and on stage (she also co-wrote his signature hit "Ring of Fire") who repeatedly helped bring Johnny bac...
the Shenzhou V mission in2 o3 and wrote, "To make use of outer space peacefully and for the benefit of all humankind,the Chinese came to outer space. "He was remembered in the history of China as the person who fulfilled the nation's 1,000-year-old dream of ...
When Yang Liwei, a former fighter jet pilot, displayed the flags of China and the United Nations together during the Shenzhou V mission in 2003 and wrote, “To make use of outer space peacefully and for the benefit of all humankind, the Chinese came to outer space.” He...