Darrell Romick’s Manned Earth-Satellite Terminal Evolving from Earth-to-Orbit Ferry Rockets (METEOR) space-station concept, ~1956. Maneuver Carefully…
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“The Distinguished Men of Science of Great Britain Living in the Years 1807-8”, published 1862.
“Among those present are Henry Cavendish (1731-1810), discoverer of hydrogen and the decomposition of water; John Dalton (1766-1844), discoverer of atomic theory; Humphry Davy (1778-1844), discoverer of sodium, potassium, barium, and magnesium; William Herschel (1738-1822), discoverer of Uranus; Edward Jenner (1749-1823), creator of the smallpox vaccination; Count Rumford (1753-1814), the American science teacher named Benjamin Thompson, who founded the Royal Institution; and James Watt (1738-1819), inventor of the steam engine.”
In a press conference this morning, the University of Leicester stated that DNA testing performed on a tooth extracted from skeletal remains found beneath a council car park in 2012 has confirmed that scientists have indeed found the five hundred year old body of King Richard III, killed at the battle of Bosworth Field on the 22 of August, 1485, ending the War of the Roses. He was the last of the Plantagenet dynasty, and the last English king to die in battle.
Richard, immortalized by Shakespeare, had idiopathic adolescent onset scoliosis resulting in a severe curvature of his spine. Without this condition, Richard would have stood approximately 5’ 8” tall; however his height would have been reduced quite a bit due to the curvature. No evidence of a withered arm was found.
There were a total of ten wounds found on the body, including two on the skull, one of which would certainly have been fatal. No clothing, personal objects, or remnants of a shroud were found in the grave; Richard’s hands may have been tied in front of him. The body is to be reinterred in Leicester Cathedral.
The University of Leicester has a website containing a great deal of further information and detail about the discovery.
Skeletal study of an Amazon parrot; pencil drawing by Katrina van Grouw from her book The Unfeathered Bird.
From various sources: this gourd contained a handkerchief soaked in blood which recent DNA tests have recently confirmed came from King Louis XVI.
The gourd bears an inscription reading:
“On January 21, Maximilien Bourdaloue dipped his handkerchief in the blood of Louis XVI after his decapitation”
Louis was, of course, King of France during the French Revolution, married to Marie Antoinette, and executed after being found guilty of treason by the National Convention in 1793.
Symbols representing Chemistry, Physics, Biology, and Pharmacology.
These symbols are etched onto the windows of the lab building on the grounds of the hospital in the ghost city of Pripyat, located near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.
Photo by Timm Seuss; more at the Atlantic.
Jets of plasma fly away from the supermassive black hole in galaxy Hercules A. This image is a composite of visible light and radio data, combined from the Hubble and the Very Large Array.
The jets are composed of plasma, magnetic fields, and subatomic particles; they are travelling near the speed of light, and are 1.5 million light-years in length, dwarfing the galaxy at their centre.
NASA has a high-resolution version of this image available.
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