The King's head on a Liberty Dollar: financial crisis 1797 Why did the 1797 financial crisis mean King George III's was stamped on American coins – just a few years after he'd lost the colonies? Here curator Dr Megan Gooch explains one of the fascinating.. Continue reading
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Alan Watt The Neo-Eugenics War On Humanity (Full Version) – Video
Alan Watt The Neo-Eugenics War On Humanity (Full Version) Alan Watt continues to divulge his fascinating in-depth insights into how culture is created from the top down and used by the elite to manipulate and pervert natural human instincts towards their own ends. Continue reading
A Visit to The Downey Space Plant, Birthplace of the Space Shuttle (1929-2012) – Video
A Visit to The Downey Space Plant, Birthplace of the Space Shuttle (1929-2012) On November 29, 2012, Richard Schave of Esotouric visited Jerry Blackburn, President of the Aerospace Legacy Foundation, to talk about the fascinating history of space flight research in Downey, and the heartbreaking view just out Jerry's window of the ongoing demolition of the buildings in which the Apollo Mission and Space Shuttle were developed. This September, the Space Shuttle Endeavor flew over Downey to honor the work done on this site Continue reading
[IBUKI TV] Media Preview of Space Shuttle Trainer Exhibit – Video
[IBUKI TV] Media Preview of Space Shuttle Trainer Exhibit Cockpit and Crew Compartment tours begin Saturday, November 17 Museum Members — If you missed your free preview of the Crew Compartment, you can still get discounted tickets for the upcoming tours. A Grand New Exhibit In November, The Museum of Flight will open a new exhibit in the Charles Simonyi Space Gallery featuring spacecraft and artifacts of human space flight's past, present, and future showcasing the impressive full-scale Space Shuttle Trainer. Continue reading
Blondeness In Solomon Islanders Due To Genetic Variations
Excess sun exposure, a diet rich in fish, and gene inheritance from ancient explorers and traders, are all possible theories why some dark-skinned indigenous Solomon Islanders are naturally blonde, according to new research published today in the journal Science. The study, led by Stanford University researchers, found that 5 to 10 percent of the indigenous Solomon population have a gene that is responsible for blondeness. The trait, however, is distinctly different from the gene that causes blond hair in Europeans. Continue reading