Today in History – December 23, 1867 – Birth of first self-made millionairess (Sarah Breedlove for hair straightner invention, products and services) .
Born in poverty in 1867 (left graphic is a sketch of her birth house) on the shores of the Mississippi River in northeast Louisiana, her parents, recenlty released slaves, died while she was […]

Today in History – December 17, 1903 – Orville and Wilbur Wright completed the first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. The Wright Flyer stayed aloft for 12 seconds and covered 120 feet. Over the next few years, the Wright brothers developed more capable airplanes and grabbed the world’s attention in their […]

Today in History – November 15, 1939 – First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn. Wallace Hume Carothers led a team of researchers at DuPont to develop the world’s first totally synthetic fiber. Dupont turned their experimental laboratory in Wilmington, Delaware into a full-fledged industrial process and industry. Before the invention of nylon became a […]

Today in History – November 7, 1988 – 6.9 earthquake destroys Armenia, Spitak and kills over 60,000. It is reported that the entire population of Spitak died in this devastating earthquake, making it one of the most deadly earthquakes in human history. Partial blame was placed on the substandard infrastructure in Soviet-era […]

Ice Stories: Dispatches from Polar Scientists describes the working lives of penguin biologists, glaciologists, cosmologists, geologists, and marine scientists working in Antarctica and the Arctic. It is a new feature on the website of […]