January 19, 2025
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Harriet Quimby
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As a person always looking for new life challenges, she was the first woman to cross the English Channel by air. In March 1912, she sailed for England to meet Louis Blériot, a French flyer with a then international reputation. Quimby managed to convince Blériot to lend her a 50-horsepower monoplane for an attempt to…
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October 30, 2022 2 Comments
From the first book ever written that we know of – The Epic of Gilgamesh to the latest graphic-novel such as The White Bird, books have been indispensable parts of every life lived on earth. Sadly, the world may be on the brink of no longer needing, wanting, or treasuring books. What’s left if books and libraries disappear?