There is a public building in my community that is so poorly designed, I just have to comment. It’s amazing this building was designed, approved, funded with tax dollars, constructed and accepted. Apparently no one raised any objections as to its usability and fitness for its purpose.
Hamburg, Germany was a major port of embarkation for emigrants bound for America during the nineteenth century. Since the Germans are good record keepers, detailed records were undoubtedly kept about these emigrants, our ancestors. My grandmother Ida Pohl was a little girl when she emigrated with her mother and siblings from Hamburg in 1893. As an amateur genealogist, I was frustrated to learn that most of these records were destroyed by British and American bombers during World War II.
The book Sidereus Nuncius, or Starry Messenger was published by Galileo Galilei in March 1610. In it he records his first views of the heavens through a telescope. This is one of the great scientific publications that changed the world. Galileo’s excitement is palpable as he describes the craters on the moon, a myriad of countless stars and his discovery of the four orbiting moons of Jupiter.