October 22, 1938 – Small apartment in Queens, New York: Chester Carlson and his buddy Otto Kornei, an unemployed physicist, stared at each other in disbelief. After a year of experiments in the kitchen, several fires, and an angry wife, they had produced the world’s...
2009, The New York Times – 400 Most Influential New Yorkers List: Pete Hamill, the distinguished Writer in Residence at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, made “The 400 Most Influential New Yorkers in the Past 400 Years” list. When an...
U.S. Marine Colonel John Folsom, the top-ranking officer at Camp Al-Taqaddum near Falujah, Iraq, was accustomed to waking up to the sound of helicopter rotors. But on this particular Sunday morning in May 2008, he was awakened by an unusual sound, “hee-haw, hee-haw,...
The week following the U.S. declaration of war on Japan on December 8, 1941, Rae Wilson, a twenty-six year old store clerk, wrote a letter to the weekly newspaper in North Platte, Nebraska asking if the local Union Pacific train depot could be converted into a...
After Dwight L. Moody preached at the New Court Congregational Church in North London in June 1872, a young woman went home and told her bed-ridden sister, “Mr. Moody from America preached at our church this morning.” Marianne Adlard, the bed-ridden sister, shouted...
In 1968, eighteen-year-old Philippe Petit was reading a magazine in a Paris dentist office when an article, a picture, and a dream captivated him. The article was about the construction of twin towers in lower Manhattan in New York City, that when completed would...
