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The smallest astronomer in England was 4 foot 3, scarred by smallpox and trained as a house servant. 🏴🇬🇧
Then she found something in the sky no woman had ever claimed.
Caroline Herschel was born in Hanover, a bandsman's daughter. Smallpox scarred her face as a little
I watched Elon Musk’s interview with The Economist and heard him claim 250,000 girls were systematically raped by grooming gangs in the UK. It sounded too monstrous to be real, so I did what I always do. I went to check the receipts myself.
It is worse than the number.
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🏴🇬🇧 The man who invented the equals sign died in a debtors' prison. 🏴🇬🇧
2 small lines. You have drawn them all your life. A Welshman drew them first.
Robert Recorde was born in Tenby around 1512, a merchant's son. Oxford made him a fellow, Cambridge a doctor of medicine. But
“The Yale study and the Vanderbilt and Washington report should be read in Canada and should inspire investigation of their relevance here. They are detailed, evidence-based and written by scholarly observers. Many or most in our universities may be comfortable in feeling that
For eight months, the old Dalmatian refused to come to the front of his kennel. Every family that entered the shelter glanced at his grey muzzle and continued toward younger dogs. Initially, Buddy still rose when footsteps came closer. Eventually, he only watched from the back of
He told his students to go to the windows.
Get out. Jump if you have to.
Then Liviu Librescu walked to the classroom door and pressed his body against it.
He was 76 years old. He weighed 140 lbs
The gunman was in the hallway.
It was April 16, 2007. A Monday morning. Solid
