Katherine Johnson: The Numbers Behind America’s First Orbits
Quiet genius from West Virginia Katherine Johnson was born in 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and showed an...
Quiet genius from West Virginia Katherine Johnson was born in 1918 in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, and showed an...
Born in 1892 in a small Texas town, Bessie Coleman began life far from the glamour of airshows. Her family...
In 1944 the U.S. Army quietly recruited painters, set designers, sound engineers and sculptors into a single, unusual formation: the...
In the summer of 1783 a crack opened in the Icelandic earth and refused to be discreet. The Laki fissure,...
Origins: From Revolt to a Company The late 16th century turned the Low Countries into a place of restless opportunity....
1450s–1500s: Gutenberg and the first printed books In mid-15th-century Mainz, Johannes Gutenberg combined a hand press, oil-based inks, and movable...
A trading powerhouse on the Red Sea By the first century CE, Aksum (centered at modern Axum in northern Ethiopia)...
Crossroads of trade and ideas Perched at the southern edge of the Sahara, Timbuktu began as a seasonal encampment for...
Walk a stretch of the old Appian Way and you feel why Romans boasted their roads conquered as surely as...
Contemporary chroniclers across Eurasia imagined an ordinary year gone wrong. Byzantine and Chinese records note a sun that no longer...
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