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The Blacksphere (Kevin Jackson) Facebook 7/20/2012 On May 25, 1961 before a joint session of Congress, President John F. Kennedy stated that the United States of America should set as a goal the “landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth” by the end of the decade. On this day […] July 20th, 2012 | Tags: Apollo 11, Kitty Hawk, lunar landing, NASA, Orville Wright, President John F. Kennedy, Sputnik, Sunita Williams, Wilbur Wright, Wright Brothers | Category: History, North Carolina, Russia, United States | Comments are closed
20 February 2012 On 20 February 1962 Col. John Glenn orbited the Earth in Friendship 7. From Wikipedia: …In April 1959, despite the fact that Glenn had not earned the required college degree, he was assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as one of the original group of seven astronauts chosen for […] February 20th, 2012 | Tags: American exceptionalism, Canaveral Air Force station, Friendship 7, Houston, John Glenn, NASA, Perth, President John F. Kennedy, Project Mercury, Rice University, space race, Sputnik | Category: Australia, Communism, Florida, History, Military, Russia, Texas, United States, Video | Comments are closed
Ted Thornhill Daily Mail [UK] 3rd January 2012 It’s a great way to brush up on your history – but some may find parts a bit depressing. YouTube user derDon1234 has squashed 100 years of world events from 1911 to 2011 into a 10-minute clip using authentic footage. It charts some of our greatest achievements, […] January 3rd, 2012 | Tags: 'Arab Spring', 1972 Munich Olympic Games, 1979 Islamic Revolution, 20th Century, 9/11/2001, Albert Einstein, atomic bomb, Berlin Wall, Bhopal, Cassius Clay, Charles Lindbergh, Chernobyl, D-Day, Empire State Building, Fukushima nuclear disaster, Hindenburg disaster, hydrogen bomb, Khmer Rouge, Lockerbie, lunar landing, Mao Zedong, Mikhail Gorbachev, Mohammad Ali, Mohandas Ghandi, Pearl Harbor, Pope John Paul II, President John F. Kennedy, President Ronald Reagan, Richard Nixon, Roald Amundsen, Rwanda, Soviet Union, Spanish Civil War, Spanish Influenza, Sputnik, The Six Day War--1967, Titanic, tsunami, Viet Nam, Weimar Republic | Category: Asia, Barack Obama, China, Communism, Crime, Cuba, Europe, Fascism, Germany, History, Islam, Israel, Middle East, Military, Nazis, North Korea, Politics, Russia, Science/Research/Technology, technology, terrorism, United States, Video, World War I, World War II | Comments are closed
27 January 2011 “Now keep in mind that this is a man who just last year single-handedly took an ax to NASA’s budget even canceling a project that would have returned Americans to the moon. Now at the time Neil Armstrong warned that the president and his plan would cause this nation to be on […] January 27th, 2011 | Tags: Cold War, NASA, Neil Armstrong, Sean Hannity, Sputnik, State of the Union Address | Category: Barack Obama, China, Communism, Federal spending, History, Russia | Comments are closed
Mike Pence on the SOTU: ‘We Sat On the Republican Side’ Dana Loesch Big Government 1/26/2011 I felt the same as cartoonist Michael Ramirez (and likely many of you) when congress made a spectacle of themselves with their SOTU prom: click on the image for a larger view I’ve spoken to several legislators who […] January 26th, 2011 | Tags: civility, Donald Trump, Greta van Susteren, Michael Ramirez, Rep. Mike Pence, Sputnik, State of the Union Address | Category: Barack Obama, Congress | Comments are closed
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