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Saqqara Bird – Ancient Egyptian Flying Machine

The Saqqara Bird is a small wooden replica of an actual ancient Egyptian flying machine. The Saqqara Bird was excavated in 1898 from a tomb of Pa-di-lmen in Sappho...

Torresian Crow Call and Facts

Torresian Crow call is nasal, high-pitched cawing uk-uk-uk-uk-uk-uk or ok-ok-ok-ok-ok-ok-ok. In contact and advertisement, the notes are short...

The Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria)

Identification The lesser goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) is a very small songbird of the United States. The bird has a...

A Hummingbird Confronting a Pit Viper

Of 338 known species, approximately 50 types of these birds live or breed in the tropical lowlands and...

The Beautiful Flowers of the Shingle Beach

Flowers that grow by the sea must cope with exposure to wind and salt spray. Those living on...

Mao Tse-tung – Founding Father of The People’s Republic of China

The leader of some 700,000,000 Chinese is Mao Tse-tung Chairman of the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China. A soldier, politician, poet,...

The Armoured Cars and Tanks

The Armoured Cars and Tanks - Motor cars had made their appearance in the closing years of the nineteenth century. By the time that...

The Wrecking and the Wreck of Zeppelin LZ33

On the night of September 24th, 1916, the Zeppelin LZ33 was brought down by the combined efforts of the London defenses and 2nd Lieut....

When Was Fax Machine Invented?

When Was Fax Machine Invented? From the mid-19th century, inventors had been working on ways of transmitting words and images down the telegraph or...

Samuel Eliot Morison – Famous American Scholar & Historian

Like the Greek historian Thucydides and the American historian Francis Parkman, Samuel Eliot Morison writes his books as much as possible from firsthand experiences....

Sake Dean Mahomed – First Indian to Publish a Book in English

Who was Sake Dean Mahomet? He was a soldier, a masseuse, a restaurateur, a doctor, a litterateur, an entrepreneur, a Muslim, and a Christian.  He was...

The History of Chromatography

The History of Chromatography is very interesting to know. But the word might also be a play on the botanist’s own surname, which means ‘color’...

Obelisk’s – Symbols of Conquest and Mysterious Power

An Obelisk's Perilous Voyage Egypt's stones, originally raised in homage to the sun, have been coveted since Roman times as symbols of conquest and...

Johannes Havelius – First Man Who Map the Moon

Johannes Havelius published the first detailed map of the surface of the Moon in 1647. He was born on January 28, 1611, in Danzig...

Bohdan Winiarski – Former Polish Politician and Jurist

On April 5, 1961, Bohdan Winiarski was elected president of the International Court of Justice by his fourteen fellow judges. Bohdan Winiarski of Poland...