As an American, I had never heard of Anzac Day till I stood on a western shore of Turkey with a group of Australians. The Aussies grew somber and silent...
October 1929, at the age of 59, amateur botanist Ynés Mexía set sail on a streamer from San Francisco to Rio de Janeiro, on an adventurous expedition in the Amazon rainforest.
On January 16, 2003, Dr. Kalpana Chawla – a NASA astronaut, certified pilot, flight instructor, and aerospace engineer – rocketed into outer space aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Master Impressionism painter, Claude Monet, in his home garden in Giverny, France, 1926. His garden was was a botanical muse that inspired a great many of Monet's masterpieces, for four prolific decades.
