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Junko Tabei: The first woman to conquer Mount Everest
Who is Junko Tabei? Junko Tabei was the first woman to set foot on Mount Everest on May 16, 1975.
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The inventor invented the two most dangerous things in the world
Thomas J. Midgley is now considered one of the most dangerous inventors in history, because he invented leaded gasoline and CFC gas.
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The touching story of the first person of humanity permanently rests on the Moon
50 years after Apollo Mission, 12 people set foot on the Moon and dozens of people buried in space. The most special of which is Eugene Shoemaker - one of the greatest m…
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Thomas Jennings - The first black man to hold a patent, making money to help his family out of slavery
The following story is about Thomas Jennings and why he has to pay to buy his family back.
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The philosopher was exiled because he thought the Moon was just a stone
2,500 years ago, Anaxagoras asserted that the Moon reflected light from the Sun. Since then, he has explained the phases of the Moon, eclipse and eclipse.
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I was burned by a contaminated mosquito at Chernobyl
Finally, I made the most reasonable option possible: take a used paper towel in my pocket, grab the mosquito and then put it back in my pocket.
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Father's life in psychoanalysis 200 years ago
The family around the time of childhood contributed a great deal to the founding and research of Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis.
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NASA's space paraglider inventor
Francis Rogallo's invention will help bring space vehicles back to safety on the runway, instead of exploding in the oceans. T
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Woman invented the 'trap' radar jamming
Her career has been forgotten and few people remember it today, but it was the physicist Joan Curran who was the first person in the world to invent the technology to he…
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Mysterious genius mechanic and the machine froze time
The whereabouts of the genius mechanic and his time machine are still a mystery that many believe only the Israeli army knows.
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Georges Lemaitre - Great scientist of the 20th century to Einstein also admired
Georges Lemaitre is both a monk and a scientist. He has many contributions to science and is considered one of the greatest scientists in the 20th century.
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The journey of a rocket scientist is 'advised' not to go to college
Sylvia Acevedo grew up on a dirty street in New Mexico state, USA. My grandparents, parents are immigrants and their lives have gone through a period of worrying that da…
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The birth of the microscope
Since the microscope appeared around the 1590s, we have begun to see the world of extremely small organisms living in water, food and even in our bodies.
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The young and ambitious female engineer created carbon-free electricity
The ambition of a young engineer is to use nuclear reactions to produce carbon-free electricity at a cheaper cost than coal and extremely environmentally friendly.