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These are just some historical events which took place on this day, April 10. Hayley’s comet 837 Halley’s Comet makes its closest approach to Earth at a distance equal to 0.0342 AU (5.1 million kilometres/3.2 million miles). Mount Tambora 1815 The Mount Tambora volcano begins a three-month-long eruption, lasting until July 15. The eruption ultimately…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: On April 9, 1959, NASA’s first administrator, Dr. Keith Glennan, announced the names of the agency’s first group of astronauts at a news conference in Washington, D.C. Now known as the “Original Seven,” they included three Naval aviators, M. Scott Carpenter, Walter M. Schirra Jr., and Alan B. Shepard…
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You only lived a few miles down the road from me. You could have been my teacher. You could have been my Doctor You could have been my plumber. You could have been the father of a girl friend You could have been the uncle of my best friend. You could have been a scientist…
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Time! When you think of it, time is such a bizarre concept. It can be measured in an exact set of parameters, years,months,weeks,days,hours,minutes,seconds and even milli and nanoseconds. Yet when you lose someone you love, a day can seem like a year, and a year can seem like a day. Time goes fast and slow…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: I know what you are thinking “Yet another blog about Japanese suicide bombers” but you’d be wrong. This Japanese kamikaze did not attack anywhere in the pacific but it flew to London instead. The Ki-15 aircraft was originally designed to meet a 1935 Army Air Force requirement. The prototype…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: Harry Baur (12 April 1880 as Henri-Marie Baur in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine – 8 April 1943 in Paris) was a French actor.. Thanks to his impressive performance and his melodic voice he became one of the most important French actors of his time. His father died in 1890 when his…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: World War II saw rapid technological innovation in response to the needs of the various combatants. Many different weapons systems evolved as a result, but also data processing equipment. Machines such as this US Navy ‘Bombe’ (picture above)were used to assist cryptologists in deciphering German Enigma-machine encrypted secret messages during…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: World War II saw rapid technological innovation in response to the needs of the various combatants. Many different weapons systems evolved as a result, but also data processing equipment. Machines such as the ‘Colossus'(Picture above) was an electronic digital computer, built during WWII from over 1700 valves (tubes). It…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: This is one of those ‘What if’ stories, a different result would have made a massive impact on world’s history. Gibson was born in Dublin, Ireland, on August 31 1876. Her father was an Irish lawyer and politician, Edward Gibson, who was created Baron Ashbourne in 1886. Her mother,…
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Originally posted on History of Sorts: The title is from the song “When I first kissed you” by Extreme. A song I used on my wedding day. A bit of a lie really because I never been in New York, but I hope to go there someday soon. It is a beautiful song though New…
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