A Man Of Genius

You all may know Ben Franklin, but did you know his 13 Virtues to live by.

Check this out to see exactly what made this man famous.

10 Life Lessons From Albert Einstein.

Albert Einstein was an amazing scientist who figured out more than scientific equations…

Einstein’s Life Lessons 

State of the art glimpse 100 Million years into the past. Dubai’s City of Arabia is constructing its own Jurassic Park. This 500,000 sq. ft. park will feature 109 animatronic dinosaurs which will allow visitors to really ‘Walk with the Dinosaurs’.

It is scheduled to open late 2008.

 Twisting a man’s ears.

Scanned by the New York Public Library “The punishments of China” from 1804 has twenty-two engravings with explanations in both English and French.

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Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments Of All Time

Everything you’ve learned in school is wrong.

A real account into the history of the United States.

List of the top 10 most incredible recordings. 

Documenting the Great War through paintings and photographs…see what life was like for WWI soldiers.

great site for history buffs.

Munro Leaf wrote many books in his 40 year career as a children’s author, but none really topped the success of his first: The Story of Ferdinand. It concerned a little Spanish bull who preferred dreaming and smelling flowers under the cork tree to fighting with other bulls and matadors. When Ferdinand debuted in 1936, some saw the book as a commentary on the Civil War engulfing Spain, or an illustration of the passive resistance methods of the newly famous Mahatma Gandhi. Leaf always maintained the book was  non-political, But there was no denying that Ferdinand’s message of triumphant pacifism was welcomed by an American public anxiously watching events in Europe. Ferdinand became a classic of children’s literature, a popular 1938 Disney short, and remains a staple of story time at schools around the world.

The rail zeppelin was designed by Frank Kruchenberg, also responsible for designing Zeppelin airships.  This dangerous looking beast was home to a huge BMW aircraft engine which drove the rear-mounted 4-blade wooden propeller, the resultant power responsible for a new train speed world record of 145mph in 1931.

Here is an interview on Coast to Coast Am with Professor Gunnar Thompson on the evidence of New World discoveries before Columbus.

In his bestselling book, “1421: The Year China Discovered America,” British amateur historian Gavin Menzies turns the story of the Europeans’ discovery of America on its ear with a startling idea: Chinese sailors beat Christopher Columbus to the Americas by more than 70 years. The book has generated controversy within the halls of scholarship. Anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and linguists alike have debunked much of the evidence that Menzies used to support his notion, which has come to be called the 1421 theory.

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