By the CNN Wire Staff July 12, 2011 8:32 p.m. EDT (CNN) source article — Former first lady Betty Ford was rememberedTuesday as a woman whose disclosures about her personal battles showed courage and grace and brought encouragement to others. “She was a tireless advocate for those struggling,” said former first lady Rosalynn Carter. “She was never afraid to speak the truth.” Ford, who died Friday at age 93, raised awareness of issues involving women’s rights, cancer, alcoholism and substance abuse during and after her stint as first lady. Carter, close friends with Ford, also recalled their work together as advocates for those with mental illness. A former president and first ladies present…

Copyright ©2005 National Public Radio®. For personal, noncommercial use only. See Terms of Use. For other uses, prior permission required. Heard on Morning Edition May 9, 2005 – STEVE INSKEEP, host: This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I’m Steve Inskeep. For some months now, we’ve been recalling the achievements of Albert Einstein. It’s been 100 years since he published four scientific papers that altered our understanding of space and time. Historians call it his miracle year, 1905. That’s the history we know, but journalism requires that we check up on the conventional wisdom, which explains how one of our correspondents began asking if Albert Einstein was really all that smart.…

by RICHARD HARRIS March 17, 2005 One hundred years ago today, Albert Einstein finished a scientific paper that would change the world. His radical insight into the nature of light would help transform Einstein from an unknown patent clerk to the genius at the center of 20th-century physics. Scientists call 1905 Albert Einstein’s annus mirabilis — his year of miracles. Within a few months, Einstein wrote a series of papers that would transform the way we see the universe. They included his theory of special relativity and the famous equation E=mc². The first paper described his particle theory of light, which became one of the foundations of modern physics. Just…

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I am old enough to remember the good ole days of the old fashioned full service gas stations. Take a look at a photo gallery at Time Magazine of the history of gas stations. Getty Images Ardmore, Oklahoma, c. 1920 A group of attendants sit on one of the paved entrances to a station. Location Unknown, U.S., Circa 1926 The price on this pump works out to 17 cents per gallon.  Read More at Time Magazine http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,2082591_2292327,00.html

Space Shuttle: The Last Mission. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 8:29, July 12, 2011, from http://www.history.com/videos/space-shuttle-the-last-mission. Space Shuttle: The Last Mission (4:57) Space shuttle Atlantis is set to lift off on the final flight of the storied shuttle program this summer, marking the end of an era for NASA.

Source: Scientific America An experiment conceived a half century ago has confirmed Einstein’s general relativity predictions of the spacetime effects of Earth’s mass and spin. Karen Hopkin reports  | May 6, 2011 | Albert Einstein wins again. A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity. The corroboration appears online in the journal Physical Review Letters. [Francis Everitt et al., citation to come.] Einstein’s theory recognizes that massive objects warp the very fabric of space and time. If the theory is true, then the Earth should stretch the spacetime in which it sits, like a bowling ball would deform a trampoline. What’s more, the Earth’s rotation should also produce a…

The1850’s in America were ripe with sectional tension. The issue of slavery had become the predominate issue that would permeate local, state and national politic’s for the entire decade of the 1850s. One of the battle ground territories during this period was Kansas. On July 3rd, 1856, the federal House of Representatives votes to admit Kansas as a state into he union, however the Senate rejects the bill. Almost five years later, Congress does admit Kansas as the 34th and more importantly, as a slave free state on January 29th, 1861.