NASA Houston - 1969 and before, Frances "Poppy" Northcutt was the only woman in Flight Control. She was in the control center for Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, and 13. The programs that she developed were used on all of the lunar Apollo missions. Her degree is in mathematics!

The 1927 Solvay Conference (The Golden Age of Quantum Physics)

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The Doctor Who Accidentally Discovered the Most Addictive Substance on Earth… While Trying to Cure Morphine Addiction In 1897, a young German chemist named Felix Hoffmann was working at Bayer laboratories, desperate to find a safer painkiller for his father who suffered from

"I'm Gonna Pack Me Off To Pakistan." Song by famous American singer Dinah Shore from 1954... Hilarious lyrics !!! © Vintage Melodies

At 40, Franz Kafka (1883-1924), who never married and had no children, walked through the park in Berlin when he met a girl who was crying because she had lost her favourite doll. She and Kafka searched for the doll unsuccessfully. Kafka told her to meet him there the next day

In 2019, MIT professor Patrick Winston gave a legendary 1-hour lecture called “How to Speak.” It has 18M+ views for a reason. His frameworks: • Your ideas are like your children • The 5-minute rule for job talks • Why jokes fail at the start 15 lessons on communication:

Gloria Swanson recalling a silent film scene she did in a lion’s pit for Cecil B DeMille in 1919. Despite the danger, 20-year-old Swanson insisted on performing the scene herself. Male and Female 1919 Gloria Swanson, March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983

"She got fired for making a typo. That typo made her $47 million." In 1956, Bette Nesmith Graham stood in her Dallas kitchen earning $300 a month as a single mother, raising her young son Michael alone, and facing a problem the entire business world refused to solve: IBM’s new

In a crowded lecture hall in 1930, all eyes were fixed on Albert Einstein. By then, he was already a legend—the kind of mind people listened to without question. Among the audience sat a young, little-known physicist named Lev Landau, just 22 years old, absorbing every word.

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Billy Crystal's THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS entrance at the Oscars.

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HATTIE MCDANIEL was the first black person to win an Oscar when she won for Gone With The Wind in 1940. Here she is collecting the award.

Pakistan successfully mediating between US and Iran

A rare moment as a kagu bird on the brink of extinction meets its own kind.. 😊