A Brief History On April 14, 2023, the European Space Agency launched a spacecraft to explore the Moons of Jupiter, aptly naming the craft JUICE, an acronym for “Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer.” As space travel is about the coolest form of travel, we look at some real and fictional names of spacecraft in order to find the best name of them all. Digging Deeper Fictional: Enterprise, from TV and the movies’ Star Trek. Real: Enterprise, a US Space Shuttle. Fictional: Jupiter 2 from the TV show, Lost in Space. What happened to Jupiter 1? Real: Crew Dragon, a series of…
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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on April 14th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On April 14, 1561, numerous Germans witnessed what they described as an aerial battle over Nuremberg, Germany. On April 14, 1772, the building tension toward open rebellion of Americans against the British erupted in New Hampshire in an incident known as The Pine Tree Riot. On April 14, 1775, Benjamin Franklin along with Benjamin Rush founded the first abolitionist society in the…
A Brief History Today, April 14, 2021, I would like to write a general message to everyone who has been sending or intends to send me messages requesting to contribute guest or sponsored articles on this site or to have links inserted into existing articles. On a daily basis, my inbox is flooded with numerous emails from individuals asking about having guest or sponsored articles on this site or having links inserted into existing articles. I am hoping that this article will discourage anyone from doing so any further. Digging Deeper Following the unexpected death of the original, previous owner…
A Brief History On April 14, 1986, the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh experienced the largest hailstones ever recorded, with an incredible weight of 1 kilogram for a single hailstone! As you can imagine, the damage caused was extensive, but even worse, 92 people were killed by the giant ice balls from above. Today we take a look at this particular weather phenomenon. Digging Deeper Hail is basically frozen rain. Little balls of ice, or irregular shaped lumps, hail differs from ice pellets in that ice pellets usually fall in the winter or cold weather and are smaller. Hail varies in…
A Brief History On April 14, 2019, Eldrick “Tiger” Woods just pulled off a come from behind victory in the fabled Masters golf tournament, the first come from behind win in his illustrious career of destroying opponents in major tournaments. At the age of 43, Woods is now 3 Major tournament (US Open, British Open, PGA and Masters) wins behind all time leader Jack Nicklaus. (See our previous article, “Will Tiger Woods Ever Catch Jack Nicklaus?”) Digging Deeper Not only has Tiger stunned the golf world, he also made a major boost for those of us thought to be somewhat…