“Between 1931 and 1946, Pan American Airways had 28 flying boats known as “Clippers,” These four radial engine aircraft were S-40’s and… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater Two Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“In recent years there has been a tendency by some Western historians and politicians to look back at the aftermath of the… — Keith Lowe Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
If you watch a movie from between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, whenever anyone steps out in… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
Following World War II, the U.S. was the architect of the UN system, and the world financial system, and the Human Rights… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
European peace movement felt that the deployment of these missiles on European soil, on German soil would be a very great danger… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
“It was the missionaries who became the brave storm troopers of Christianity, slashing their way through jungles, going where no one had… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
“most Americans have never recognized as “terrorist” in precisely the same sense the firestorms caused deliberately by U.S. firebombing of Tokyo or… — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
“But after World War II, the brothers realized they were running hard just to stay in one place. They weren’t building volume… — Ray Kroc Copy Share Image
“Tonight, no one will rage and cry: "My Kingdom for a horse!" No ghost will come to haunt the battlements of a… — Michel Tremblay Copy Share Image
“Pulp devotees did not invent the word fan (derived from the Latin fanaticus , "possessed by divine madness") but they established the… — Steve Silberman Copy Share Image
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“The single biggest barrier to getting men to look within is that what any other group would call powerlessness, men have been… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
“History lesson, folks: The tax system we have today—the one we've come to know and love—began ninety-four years ago as a (drum… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
