Who Was Queen Elizabeth II? Queen Elizabeth II became queen on February 6, 1952, and was crowned on June 2, 1953. She was the mother of Prince Charles, heir to the throne, as well as the grandmother of Princes William and Harry. As the... Continue Reading →
Tanks rolled into Ukraine unabated. Families packed into darkened subway stations to take shelter from bombs. Others filled suitcases and fled along clogged roadways out of cities. The images emerging from Ukraine evoke memories of 20th-century conflicts in Europe that once seemed unimaginable in 2022,... Continue Reading →
On This Day 1968, Lise Meitner, born November 7, 1878, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now in Austria] died.Austrian-born physicist who shared the Enrico Fermi Award (1966) with the chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann for their joint research that led to the discovery of uranium fission. After receiving her doctorate at... Continue Reading →
With everything that happens in Afghanistan these days I remembered that long time ago I saw a photo-panorama of fortress of Bala Hissar. I'm disgusted by us, humans. Seems there's no evolution in our thinking or in the way we... Continue Reading →
On This Day - 1918 Spanish flu kills 21,000 people in the US in a single week.Wear a mask or go to jail!! Interesting photo...perhaps people back then had a few extra neurons. Wear a mask or... DIE.
The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet has today decided to award the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine jointly to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus. This year's Nobel... Continue Reading →
Annie and John Glenn arrive at the Mission Control Center for the Gemini IV launch on June 4, 1965. John Glenn was the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn's wife Annie, who passed away May 19, 2020, was an advocate for people... Continue Reading →
On this day 1953 Francis Crick, James Watson & Rosalind Franklin's discovery of the double helix structure of DNA is published in "Nature" magazine. American biologist James Watson and British physicist Francis Crick came up with their famous model of the... Continue Reading →
On this day, 1820, danish scientist Hans Christian Ørsted is the first to identify electromagnetism, when he observes a compass needle. He showed by experiment that an electric current flowing through a wire could move a nearby magnet. The discovery... Continue Reading →
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