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Dean Karau For the Star Courier This brief paragraph was buried on page 8 of the Dec. 22, 1903, Kewanee Daily Star Courier: “The United States government wants the flying machine invented by Orville and Wilbur Wright, the Dayton, O., brothers who made a successful test of their invention at Kitty Hawk, N.C.” That was our hometown’s inauspicious introduction to the age of flight, which had begun a mere five days earlier. A young Annawan boy was only five years-old at the time, so he surely...

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Who’s Who in Judas and the Black Messiah: A Character Guide Vulture.com 2/13/2021 Nick Allen Judas and the Black Messiah has the all the trappings of a genre movie — it’s a gritty crime thriller that unfolds on the tense stage of an anti-police revolution — but it shouldn’t be underestimated as a history lesson. In its true story of how informant William O’Neal (Lakeith Stanfield) infiltrated the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in the late 1960s, direct...

National Inventors’ Day: 5 patents that show the innovative genius of Daytonians Lisa Powell Today, Feb. 11, is National Inventors’ Day — as proclaimed by then-president Richard Nixon in 1973 — and it’s the perfect time to call attention to the creative genius from the Gem City that helped revolutionize the world. Dayton, a hotbed of ingenuity, was known as the invention capital of the United States in the early 1900s. Local inventors drew up patent applications and su...

It’s time for a brightly coloured update, Charlie Brown We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss By Saul Austerlitz Save Normal text size Advertisement With the arrival of The Snoopy Show, audiences are being ushered back into Snoopy’s inner world at a time when most of us crave escape from an eternal COVID-19 present. All the familiar faces from Peanuts — Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Marcy — are back, but the show ...

Civilian Army Instructor Pilot Honored for Years of Flight An instructor pilot walks onto the flightline while maintenance crews inspect at UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter at Lowe Army Heliport, Fort Rucker, Ala. in a dense fog that blanketed lower part of the state for several hours on the morning of May 9, 2013. (Andrew Kosterman/U.S. Army) 6 Feb 2021 The Associated Press | By PEGGY USSERY, Dothan Eagle DOTHAN, Ala. (AP) —...

It’s an Obscure Special, Charlie Brown Everyone knows the Great Pumpkin, but there actually have been more than 50 “Peanuts” TV specials. With “The Snoopy Show” arriving Friday on Apple TV+, here are some you might not remember. “The Snoopy Show” revolves primarily around the famous beagle’s lavish fantasy life.Credit...Apple TV+ By Saul Austerlitz Feb. 5, 2021 We are all Snoopy now, lying atop our solitary doghouses, dreaming of adventures we cannot have. With th...

In Britain Herbert Austin, works manager of the Wolseley Sheep Shearing Machine Co, built the first of the Wolseley cars in 1896. Britain had been slow to adopt the concept of the motor car, partly because of the strong lobby from the railways and partly because legislation until 1896 had limited the speed of powered vehicles to 4mph in the countryside and 2mph in towns. In 1896 the limit was raised to 14mph and in 1903 to 20mph. Frederick Henry Royce was born in 1863. His father’s m...

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Apple co-founder Steve Jobs has been selected for inclusion in something the Trump regime is calling the “Garden of American Heroes,” according to