Tag Archives: History
In 2008, while the Red Hot Chili Peppers took a break, 45-year-old bassist Flea enrolled as a…
The US Air Force Research Lab once built a supercomputer by wiring up about 1,700 PlayStation 3…
In 2008, Steve Sheraton launched the iBeer iOS app for $2.99. It became an early viral App Store…
In 1833 Stockholm, a young Swedish milkmaid got briefly arrested by police because her beauty drew…
Catastrophe – The Biggest Disaster in Human Space Flight History
1,500 kilometres southeast of Moscow, sprawling over the rugged steppes of Kazakhstan, lies Baikonur Cosmodrome, the world’s first gateway to space. It is from this hallowed ground that Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite, and Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, blasted off on their historic missions – and a long time primary gateway… Read More »
Canada’s Biological Warfare Program
Grosse Île lies 50km east of Quebec City, one of 21 islands in the middle of the St. Lawrence River. Though its name means “Big Island” in French, Grosse Île is barely two kilometres square, home to a small collection of buildings from its days as a quarantine station for Irish immigrants arriving in… Read More »
Did Alberto Santos-Dumont Really Invent the Airplane?
If you were to ask the average American “who invented the aeroplane?” the answer you would most likely get is the Wright Brothers. Indeed, the two bicycle mechanics from Dayton, Ohio, are generally acknowledged to have carried out the first controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight in history, piloting their aircraft the Flyer a distance of 36.5… Read More »