Tag: NASA
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A lovely ode to the Voyager 1 spacecraft’s long life and imminent death.
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NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day feed is a treasure trove of amazing photos.
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Been Reviewing
Happy to report that two of my most recent reviews for Library Journal are now online. I wrote about Edward Lengel’s First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His—and the Nation’s—Prosperity and Charles Rappleye’s Herbert Hoover in the White House: The Ordeal of the Presidency. The former is already out, and the Herbert Hoover biography, which I gave a “starred” review, comes…
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Where Are Our American Heroes?
Published in the North Central Chronicle on October 26, 2007. The Declaration of Independence. The Emancipation Proclamation. The Wright brothers. The fall of the Berlin Wall. These are great pieces of our nation’s history. They represent the importance of American freedom, ingenuity, and strength. Slavery. The treatment of Native Americans. The atomic bomb. Vietnam. Watergate.…