Kruger in 1865. A young Boer farmer named Paul Kruger took aim at a large rhinoceros. Already, at the age
Photo from Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust The wreck of Endurance has been found in the Antarctic, 106 years after the
Burma. Credit. The sun warmed the open fields as the little band moved down the trail. It was a narrow
Lindley On December 9, 1833, a young Presbyterian pastor named Daniel Lindley offered his services to the American Board of
Lava Lake in Hawaii. Source. Down in the molten depths of the crater of Kilauea, a raging inferno yawned wide
A Boat Sulawesi, formerly Dutch East Indies. Photo by Collin Key. “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
The southern tip of South America A rescue ship drifted slowly toward a rocky coastline at “the end of the
You may know Marco Polo as the first European to visit China. Did you know he was certainly not the
Tahiti. Source. It was spring of 1817. Two young missionaries stood on the deck of a ship, peering into the
The wreck of the terror from the Arctic Research Foundation. The loss of Sir John Franklin’s 1845 expedition to find
Dogfighting in WW1 “When my brother and I built and flew the first man-carrying flying machine, we thought that we
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