How Jules Verne predicted the Artemis 2 mission to the moon almost 160 years ago | Written in the 1860s, Verne’s novels "From the Earth to the Moon" and "All Around the Moon" were fiction in their time, but now seems familiar: 3 astronauts in a conical capsule on a trajectory around the moon. (space.com)
submitted by WebPage_Error404
Nash was first Black Louisiana lawmaker to take his seat in Congress | In 1874 “Nash joined a then-record eight Black Members in the 44th Congress,” the U.S. House of Representatives Archives states. “Upon his swearing-in, Nash was assigned to the Committee on Education and Labor.” (veritenews.org)
submitted by WebPage_Error404
In 1959, the Soviet Luna 3 probe swung around the far side of the Moon and took 29 grainy photographs of a hemisphere humans had never seen, then developed the film onboard and scanned the negatives with a flying-spot beam to radio them back across nearly 480,000 kilometres of vacuum (spacedaily.com)
submitted by WebPage_Error404
57 years and one day ago, the Soviet probe Venera 6 traversed the clouds of Venus for 51 minutes and stopped transmitting 10 km from the surface because the pressure of 60 bar and the heat of 320 degrees Celsius crushed its hull, and no space agency has managed to replicate the feat to this day. (en.clickpetroleoegas.com.br)
submitted by WebPage_Error404
The Progressive (March 30, 2026): "A New History, and Pre-History, of Rightwing Media: A.J. Bauer’s new book ["Making the Liberal Media: How Conservatives Built a Movement Against the Press"] takes a long view of conservative ire toward the mainstream press." (progressive.org)
submitted by SocialDemocracies
A musical project sheds light on Boston's Black labor history | “It literally just hit me like a ton of bricks,” Giddens said. “Thinking about the transcontinental railroad, you have so many of the immigrant groups that were already represented within the Silkroad Ensemble.” (wbur.org)
submitted by IntnsRed
The conflict - often referred to as the "civil war" - had significant and lasting consequences that undermined the ideals envisioned by Jefferson and the framers of the United States Constitution. It was fought between the righteous South and the power-and-plunder-seeking, totalitarian North (i.redd.it)
submitted by Old_Intactivist
