Each of us has one,
And his now has the spotlight:
Friday, May 10, 2024
What is the oldest aircraft carrier that remains in service?
‘What is the oldest aircraft carrier that remains in service?' The simple answer is the USS Nimitz (CVN-68), which was the first of the Nimitz-class carriers. The long answer delves into the ship's history, its importance to the modern design of aircraft carriers, and the many missions it's undergone since it was commissioned on May 3, 1975.
Read More: https://www.slashgear.com/1575097/oldest-aircraft-carrier-still-in-service/
Personal Postscript: I’m partial to stories about aircraft carriers because I was stationed on three of them: Coral Sea, Ranger, and Kitty Hawk.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Highly recommended biography by H. W. Brands
Some books deserve high praise and repeated reading. The one shown below is just such a book. I’m taking a moment here to recommend it to you.
(Amazon blurb)
PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” (The Washington Post) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War.
"The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers
Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin's "life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands" (The Dallas Morning News). From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America’s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world’s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant.
Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin’s greatness and humanity, The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy.
Hmm… another part of Margaret Sanger’s legacy
9 May, 1960 — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approves the world's first commercially produced birth-control pill—Enovid-10, made by the G.D. Searle Company of Chicago, Illinois. Development of "the pill," as it became popularly known, was initially commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger... read more
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Son of a farmer begins journey to White House
On May 8, 1884, Harry S. Truman is born in Lamar, Missouri. The son of a farmer, Truman could not afford to go to college. He joined the army at the relatively advanced age of 33 in 1916 to fight in World War I. After the war, he opened a haberdashery in Kansas City. When that business went bankrupt in 1922, he entered Missouri politics. Truman went on to serve in the U.S. Senate from 1934 until he was chosen as Franklin D. Roosevelt’s third vice president in 1945; it was during his Senate terms that he developed a reputation for honesty and integrity.
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