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Trumps executive order adds names to National Garden of American Heroes Trump wants more figures to be honored in his proposed garden, including the late singer Whitney Houston, game show host Alex Trebek and Grover Cleveland. Author: Erin McHugh Updated: 6:12 AM EST January 19, 2021 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order expanding the list of names to be featured in the proposed "National Garden of American Heroes."  Trump wan...

As The Economist points out, the five-year period before the pandemic was the only one since Orville and Wilbur Wright made their first flight in 1903 in which the industry covered its cost of capital. Burned again by COVID-19, many investors the likes of Warren Buffet have now decided to stay away from anything that flies.  Additionally, the forecast made in May 2020 by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) that passenger numbers would return to pre-pandemic levels by 2023 now l...

Ty Pennington: 10 Things You Didnt Know About The TV Host Casey Rodgers/Invision/AP Ty Pennington is one of the most well-known television hosts of modern times. Largely known for his time as the host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, the home improvement expert has been gracing our screens for years. Also known for the TNT show On the Menu with co-host Emeril Lagasse, American Diner Revival, and ABCs talk show The Revolution, Pennington has proved that he is one of the all-time great host...

Absolutely arrogant. For Timothy P. Schmalz, an Ontario-based sculptor, that's really the only way to describe the renewed push to tear down statues that commemorate people who are now deemed out of step with modern morals.

John W. “Jack” Gilbert, 73, of Potlatch, died Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020, at Miss Dorothy Adult Family Home, of age and vascular dementia. If you knew my dad, you can appreciate two of his “Did you know that today in history ...” for Dec. 17. So, in 1903, Orville and Wilbur Wright made the first successful man-powered airplane flight. That date is also the anniversary of Hollywood stuntman Stan Barrett became the first man to travel faster than the speed of sound at Edwards Air...

History Happenings Alexander Lippisch is shown in a clip from the 1955 University of Iowa film, “Secret of Flight.” The 57-minute film is on YouTube along with several newsreel clips of aircraft he designed. A search for his name yields a treasure trove of videos. (University of Iowa) Alexander Lippisch (left), designer of the first German jet, in 1953 presents a picture of the Wright Brothers’ first flight to Donald Hines, chairman of the Cedar Rapids Airport Commission. The Wrights bega...

Proclamation on Wright Brothers Day, 2020 Details Written by IVN Washington, DC - On this day 117 years ago, for a few short seconds over 120 feet of wind-swept beach in North Carolina, Orville Wright became the first person to achieve sustained, controlled, powered, and manned flight, forever altering the course of human history. The flying machine Orville piloted, which he and his brother Wilbur designed and constructed following years of research and testing, prop...

Pixel Scroll 12/17/20 For He To-Day That Scrolls His Pixel With Me, Shall Be My Sibling; Be He Ne’er So File Posted on (1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair st...

(1) INSIDE STORY. In “Why I Write”: Samuel R. Delany scrolls through the reasons. This conversation appears in the Winter 2020 print issue of   . … I remember sitting on the steps of the embalming room at the back of the chapel in my father’s Harlem funeral parlor, watching Freddy, my father’s embalmer, working on the corpse of a tan woman with reddish hair stretched on her back on the white enamel surgical table with its drain and clamps… “How old is she?” I asked. “Twenty-...

Invest in airports to transform economy — Aviation expert 17th Dec 2020    |    Source: Graphic Online Capt Victor Kwesi Amoah An Aviation Expert, Capt Victor Kwesi Amoah, has called on the government to invest in the construction and development of state-of-the-art airports across the country to help transform the economy. Instead of venturing into an airline business, he said the government should rather channel its resources into the construction of modern airports across the 16 r...