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Category: History

From Their Balloons, the First Aeronauts Transformed Our View of the World

History

Before the balloon, philosophers speculated that the skies went on forever. Then came the aeronauts who changed our view of the world.

The Journalist Who Exposed the Jeffrey Epstein of Victorian London

History

A newspaper exposé written by British journalist W.T. Stead, “The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon” sounds just like the sordid sex ring of Jeffrey Epstein.

Ancient Greek Music: Now We Finally Know What It Sounded Like

History
ancient greek monument

A project to investigate ancient Greek music has generated stunning insights into how ancient Greeks made music; the songs of Homer, Sappho, and others.

If I Can Dream: The Elvis Tribute To Martin Luther King

History

Elvis Presley recorded the song “If I Can Dream” just two months after the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr. Both were born and raised in the Deep South.

The Song That Had One British Politician Wishing for the Sex Pistols’ Sudden Death

History
sex pistols

When the Sex Pistols came out with “God Save the Queen” 40 years ago, on May 27, 1977, it was instantly greeted with widespread, visceral condemnation.

Policing the Berlin Wall: The Ghostly Photos Taken by the Stasi’s Hidden Cameras

History
stasi hidden cameras photos

Surveillance occurred through the collection of documents, audio, video, human odors – and around two million photographs now held in the Stasi archive.

Not One but Two Aussie Dishes Were Used To Get the TV Signals Back From the Apollo 11 Moonwalk

History, Technology
apollo moon dish broadcast

When Neil Armstrong stepped on to the Moon, Australians saw the images first. They used a second Aussie dish to bring the historic images to the world.

The Battle Between NBC and CBS To Be the First To Film a Berlin Wall Tunnel

History
berlin wall crisis

In 1962, NBC and CBS were at work on two separate, secret documentaries on escape tunnels being dug under the Berlin Wall.

Bronze Age Discovery Reveals Surprising Extent of Britain’s Trade With Europe 3,600 Years Ago

History
great orme bronze age trade

Research reveals evidence of a copper-mining bonanza in Wales 3,600 years ago that reached France, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark and Sweden.

BEFORE WALT DISNEY, THERE WAS LOTTE REINIGER – THE STORY OF THE WORLD’S FIRST ANIMATED FEATURE

Arts, History
lotte reiniger animated features

The oldest surviving animated feature was not made by Walt Disney, but by a German puppeteer named Lotte Reiniger: The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926).

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  • NATO Declares Outer Space an ‘Operational Domain’

    After declaring space a war zone, NATO could start using space weapons that can destroy satellites or incoming enemy missiles.

  • FCC Orders Phone Companies to End Robocalls

    The FCC released new rules aiming to combat spoofed robocalls. They require phone companies to implement a new protocol.

  • Negative Interest Rates Will Not Fix the Global Economy

    Would you deposit one pound with a bank today if it was going to give you back less than one pound tomorrow?

  • The US Is Worried About Its Critical Minerals Supply Chains

    When U.S. companies build military weapons systems, electric vehicle batteries, satellites and wind turbines, they rely heavily on a few dozen “critical minerals” – many of which are mined and refined almost entirely by other countries. Building a single F-35A fighter jet, for example, requires at least 920 pounds of rare earth elements that come primarily from China.

  • Why the New Trillions Did Not Cause Hyperinflation?

    The Fed issues as much dollars as needed by writing the new trillions on its balance sheet. These new trillions are channeled usually via government bond buying or through the banking system.

    The US government designs its economic policies in a way that makes its trade balance of payments always negative (by large values). Therefore, trillions keep flowing overseas (to pay China, EU, Japan etc for the imported goods and services).

    Moreover, the US coerces foreign governments to trade between each others in USD; especially for oil and gas. In this way, the ‘excess’ dollars keep circulating worldwide.

  • Japan to Build Wooden Satellites to Avoid Space Junk

    Sumitomo Forestry, a Japanese wood processing company, has started developing wooden satellites, in partnership with Kyoto University.

    The project is proposed as a solution to the space junk problem. Thus, end-of-life wooden satellites would fully burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere without leaving any harmful debris.

  • A Global Shortage Highlights a Troubling Trend: A Small Number of the World’s Chips Are Made In the US

    It might not seem important that 88% of the semiconductor chips used by U.S. industries, including the automotive and defense industries, are fabricated outside the U.S. However, three issues make where they are made critical to the U.S. as the global leader in electronics: lower capability, high global demand and limited investment.

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