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MayThe Spirit of Adventure
On This Day in 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh landed his Spirit of St. Louis in Paris, completing the first non-stop, solo airplane flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Gas-engine, propeller airplanes were in their infant stage of engineering and refinement in … Continue reading →
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MayGiving Us the World
On This Day in 1570, the world’s first true modern atlas, was published in Antwerp. Compiled by Flemish geographer and cartographer Abraham Ortelius (Ortels), Theatrum Orbis Terrarum [Theatre of the World] was a bound collection of maps and explanatory text. … Continue reading →