Elenore, disguised as a man, joined the volunteer Lutzow Free Corps to fight to free Prussia from Napoleon Bonaparte. She died from wounds in the battle of the Gohrde in 1813. Johann Friederich Duncker wrote a play in her honor for which Ludwig van Beethoven composed incidental music.
Eratosthenes first measured the circumference of the earth from the shadows cast by the sun. Today, humanity's fitness to survive will be measured by our ability to conquer that same thermonuclear fusion that casts those shadows. Thus, Prometheus will truly be unbound.
Saturday, August 07, 2010
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