History’s best time, set by Usain Bolt, is 9.58 seconds. Depending on how you parse the data, he’s either rather close—or worlds away—from the theoretical limit. This year, the fastest boys’ time recorded in athletic.net for the 200m in California is 20.41 seconds. The fastest girls’ time is 23.07 seconds.…
Pathé News was a producer of newsreels, cinemagazines, and documentaries from 1910 until 1970 in the United Kingdom. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of moving pictures in the silent era. The Pathé News archive is known today as “British Pathé”. Its founder, Charles Pathé, was a pioneer of…
A photograph of a drowned man pulled from the Seine in 1890, strongly resembling Le Prince, was discovered in 2003 during research in the Paris police archives. This somehow led to the conclusion that he must have failed to get his moving picture to work, had heavy debts, and thus…
In the final decades of the 19th century, Koch conclusively established that a particular germ could cause a specific disease. He did this by experimentation with anthrax. A Brief Summary of Louis Pasteur’s Germ Theory of Disease Louis Pasteur was a French chemist-turned-microbiologist, who proved the existence of microbes in…
FIGURE 1. Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand MagellanHe is best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route, during which he discovered the interoceanic passage bearing thereafter his name and achieved the first European navigation from the…
1-Sentence-Summary: Amusing Ourselves To Death takes you through the history of media to highlight how entertainment’s standing in society has risen to the point where our addiction to it undermines our independent thinking. Jump to navigation Jump to search. Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show…
If you’re the surviving spouse, child, or parent of a service member who died in the line of duty, or the survivor of a Veteran who died from a service-related injury or illness, you may be able to get a tax-free monetary benefit called VA Dependency and Indemnity Compensation (VA…
On average, Section 8 Housing Choice vouchers pay Price landlords $0 per month towards rent. The average voucher holder contributes $0 towards rent in Price. The maximum amount a voucher would pay on behalf of a low-income tenant in Price, Pennsylvania for a two-bedroom apartment is between $1,038 and $1,268.…
See the highlights from New York Giants quarterback Daniel Jones in his first NFL start against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Week 3. Eli Manning. Frustrated as fans can be with Manning at times,the Draft Day maneuvering that brought him to the Giants in 2004 turned out to be brilliant.…
Whitmore’s declaration, “We will not go quietly into the night” seems to be a reference to Dylan Thomas’ classic poem “ Do not go gentle into that good night,” though Devlin and Emmerich haven’t ever mentioned it. “Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and…