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Who Invented Skiing? Exploring the Origins of the Sport
In 1866, he won the first known ski jumping competition in Telemark, Norway. The first of these contraptions hit the market in 1908 in Schollach, Germany, after being invented by hotelier Robert ...
The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics
Designed to gather and preserve biological evidence found on the body of a person reporting a sexual assault, it introduced standardized forensics into the investigation of rape where there had ...
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Who invented the airplane? What to know about the first flight and who was responsible.
They really pioneered the practice of aeronautical engineering we see today." Who invented the first successful airplane depends on how people define an aircraft, Paone said. Wilbur and Orville ...
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A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given credit for it?
Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells the story of Marty ...
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China Reacts As WHO Issues Reminder About COVID Responsibility
China has responded after the World Health Organization (WHO) again urged it to disclose data that could shed more light on the origins of COVID-19, which killed over 7 million people worldwide ...
The Boston Globe27d
William Thilly, MIT genetics professor who invented Apple Jacks cereal, dies at 79
William Thilly had many job titles during his life: groundbreaking researcher into human genetic mutations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, and the inventor of Kellogg’s Apple ...
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Who invented the plane? For many, it wasn't the Wright Brothers
The history of aviation has followed a fascinating trajectory. Leonardo da Vinci first envisaged manned flight way back in the 15th century. Then came hot-air balloons, followed by gliders and ...
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Five years on, WHO urges China to share COVID-19 origins data
GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday (Dec 30) implored China to share data and access to help understand how COVID-19 began, five years on from the start of the pandemic that ...
The Washington Post26d
Homebrewing helped spark the craft beer boom. Now interest is waning.
On the first Thursday in October, the only homebrew supply shop in New York City held its final homebrew swap. John LaPolla, who owned Bitter & Esters with business partner Douglas Amport since ...
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World News
Israel says it has killed thousands of the armed group’s members and destroyed much of its infrastructure, but since the cease-fire started Hamas has shown it still holds power in the enclave ...
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Isaac Newton: The man who discovered gravity
Revered in his own lifetime, he discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented calculus. He helped to shape our rational world view. But Newton’s story is also one of a monstrous ego who ...