“The airplane became the promise of the future, and the pilots were the popular heroes…Even the routine flights of today retain
a touch of magic, reminiscent of the Wright brothers’ real intent, which was not speed, money, or military might but simply to break the bonds of Earth and see the world in a new way” Astronaut Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, May 1998 Question: What was the true intent of the Wright brothers and why have so many followed in their footsteps?
the Wright brothers achieved the first powered, sustained and controlled airplane flight; they surpassed their own milestone two years later when they built and flew the first fully practical airplane.
The Texas oil and gas regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, imposed production limits on producers in the 1930s to try to prop up prices and later was a model for the creation of OPEC. ... Small oil producers would be exempt, Gallagher said.
The whole everyone was suppose to be equal thing, everyone getting the same thing but in the USSR, the leader and high ranking officials had the most. I don't think Marx wanted mass genocide but what do I know, they all suck anyway...
For me i think his conquest of land is the most significant he lead armies to take over Rhodes, part of Hungry and Belgrade greatly increasing the area of the Ottoman empire his leadership skills are very noteworthy
Thoreau moved to the woods of Walden Pond to learn to live deliberately. He desired to learn what life had to teach him. He moved to the woods to experience a purposeful life.
