Fast Friends
England and Portugal have been allies for 600 years: It is cordially agreed that if, in time to come, one of the kings or his heir shall need the support of the other, or his help, and in…
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The Chicken Lady
Nancy Luce is remembered as a terrible poet, but her life was so sad that it’s hard to laugh. Described by one writer as “chicken mad,” Luce spent 76 years on Martha’s Vineyard, cultivating her birds as personal…
Free Falling
Published in 1869, Edward Everett Hale’s story “The Brick Moon” described the launch of an artificial satellite nearly a century before Sputnik: If from the surface of the earth, by a gigantic peashooter, you could shoot a pea…