Archive for September, 2007
What if you were going to see your parents faces for the first time?
During his tour of duty in Iraq, Army Sgt. Johnny Kempen thought he’d seen everything, until he met a little girl who saw nothing at all.
Kempen noticed one day, as soldiers threw candy to children in a tense Baghdad neighborhood, a little girl standing out.
“Watching her trying to get the candy and not being able [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under Life Stories.
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What if you could create the ultimate extreme sport?
As companies work toward rocketing paying passengers into space and back on commercial spaceships, one firm plans on doing it with a twist.
Instead of riding the ship back down to Earth, passengers will jump off it, hurtling through the atmosphere at supersonic speeds until their parachute deploys and they glide safely down to their home [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under Discoveries / Science.
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What If? Birthdays- Ed Sullivan
9/28/1901 - 10/13/1974
American television host
(Go to obit.)
60 Pierre-Louis Maupertuis
9/28/1698 - 7/27/1759
French mathematician, biologist and astronomer
66 Prosper Merimee
9/28/1803 - 9/23/1870
French dramatist, historian, archaeologist and short story writer
88 Georges Clemenceau
9/28/1841 - 11/24/1929
French statesman; premier of the Third Republic (1917-20)
87 Avery Brundage
9/28/1887 - 5/8/1975
American president of the International Olympic Committee (1952-72)
74 Elmer Rice
9/28/1892 - 5/8/1967
American playwright, director and [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under History.
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What If? - History September 28th
On Sept. 28, 1924, two United States Army planes landed in Seattle, Washington, having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days. (Go to article.)
1066 William the Conqueror, the duke of Normandy, invaded England.
1542 Portuguese navigator Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo arrived in present-day San Diego.
1781 American forces, backed by a French fleet, began the siege of Yorktown Heights, Va., [...]
Posted: September 28th, 2007 under History.
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What If? Birthdays
Alfred Thayer Mahan
9/27/1840 - 12/1/1914
American naval strategist
(Go to obit.)
74 Cosimo de Medici
9/27/1389 - 8/1/1464
Florentine ruler
90 St. Alfonso Liguori
9/27/1696 - 8/1/1787
Italian theologian
81 Samuel Adams
9/27/1722 - 10/2/1803
American revolutionary leader
72 Benjamin Gould
9/27/1824 - 11/26/1896
American astronomer
62 Thomas Nast
9/27/1840 - 12/7/1902
American political cartoonist
80 Harry Blackstone
9/27/1885 - 11/16/1965
American magician and illusionist
88 Samuel Ervin
9/27/1896 - 4/23/1985
American senator from North Carolina; chairman of [...]
Posted: September 27th, 2007 under History.
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