Dynamic Directory - April 26, 2024
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 | Pius X Opposed WWI - Buried at St. Peter's Basilica Before he became a pope, Giuseppe Sarto had a great deal of experience living among his parishoners. As Pope Pius X, he strongly opposed the outbreak of WWI. |
 | Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail - Morse Code On January 6, 1838, Samuel Morse successfully tests an electrical telegraph. So why did it take years longer to send the first message? |
| Battle of the Bulge - Ardennes Offensive - Bastogne December-January of 2019 marks the 75th anniversary of the Ardennes Offensive, also known as the Battle of the Bulge. Hitler meant the major German offensive to turn the tide of war against the Allies. Instead, despite Germany's initial gains, the opposite happened. |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes Oliver Wendell Holmes is known for some of his free-speech decisions which he wrote while serving as a Supreme Court Justice. |
 | Ansel Adams Ansel Adams, one of America's greatest photographers, started his professional life as a pianist. What made him decide to switch profressions? |
 | Towing U-110 to Iceland As Alan Turing and his Bletchly Park colleagues worked feverishly to break the Enigma code, they caught a break when the Royal Navy captured U-110 on May 9, 1941. Onboard was a working Enigma machine and secret codes for the following month. Initially towing the disabled U-boat to Iceland, the crew with the secret treasure was redirected to Scotland. |
 | The Last Day of Abraham Lincoln - by Henry Riggs Rathbone Major Henry Reed Rathbone and his fiancé, Clara Harris, attended a play with Abraham and Mary Lincoln on the night the President was shot. Booth lunged at Rathbone with a knife, injuring but not killing him. Learn how the assassination claimed more victims, years later, when Rathbone himself lost his mind. |
 | Bobby Jones Envisions Augusta National Golf Club |
 | Japanese and Australian Soldiers at the Kokoda Trail |
 | Codex Vaticanus |
 | Japanese-American Fishing Village Destroyed at Terminal Island Before the Pearl Harbor bombing, Japanese-Americans lived and worked on Terminal Island. After the bombing, their homes were destroyed and their way of life was gone forever. |
 | Acropolis - Parthenon with Statue of Athena |
| Fermat's Last Theorem - Professor Andrew Wiles Professor Wiles has won the Abel Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem. How long did it take to solve it? How did he do it? |
| Oppenheimer, J. Robert - "Now I am Become Death" On witnessing the first test of the atomic bomb, which he had helped to develop during his work with the Manhattan Project, Dr. |
 | German U-Boat under Attack Learn the story behind one of the most-famous photos of the U-boat War: The attack of U-569. |
 | Alaska Purchase and the Klondike Gold Rush On August 16, 1896 prospectors find gold in Alaska. The Trump fortune got its start as a result. |
 | The Well Near Robroyston William Wallace was betrayed near a well in Robroystan, Scotland. This image depicts that well. |
 | Space Shuttle: Eroded O-Ring Illustration Eroded O-rings caused the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. This image depicts how hot gasses were not kept away from the shuttle's fuel during launch. |
 | Titanic Mail Clerk - John Starr March John Starr March - a 48-year-old American postal clerk working on board Titanic - liked being "at sea." |
 | Solid Rocket Motor Cross Section with O-Ring Locations This drawing depicts a cross section of the Solid Rocket Motor which was in use at the time of the Challenger disaster. |
