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...Helen Keller b) Sir Edmund Hillary c) Charles Lindbergh d) Anne Frank
...test this theory by measuring how the sun shifted light coming from a star. The results were announced at a meeting of the Royal Society in London presided over by J.J. Thomson, who in 1897 had discovered the electron. After glancing up at the society's grand portrait of Sir Isaac Newton, Thomson told the assemblage, "Our conceptions of the fabric of the universe must be fundamentally altered." The headline in the next day's Times of London read: "Revolution in Science... Newtonian Ideas Overthrown." The New York Times, back when it knew how to write great headlines, was even...
...wake of Darwin's theory of natural selection, some anthropologists started viewing all human culture--music, technology, religion, whatever--as something that evolves rather as plants and animals evolve. "In the mental sphere the struggle for existence is not less fierce than in the physical," observed the British anthropologist Sir James Frazer. "In the end the better ideas carry...
...walking down the street, and an unidentified boy and girl who are sitting together on a step. The first panel has the boy saying to the girl, "Well! Here comes ol' Charlie Brown!" In panel two, as Charlie Brown walks past, the boy says, "Good ol' Charlie Brown...yes, sir!" In panel three, the boy says, "Good ol' Charlie Brown..." But the final panel is the kicker: "How I hate...
...that last fateful play where Sir Charles hurt his knee, he was jumping up in the hopes of blocking a much bigger player from making a layup. Barkley got knocked down but the shot never...