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Inspirational Stand on The Shoulders of Giants stories

Day 11: A half baked idea

It was 1879. At the ripe old age of twenty three years, Frank decided to launch his new business.

The Chinese have a proverb: “Better to light a candle than curse the darkness” On the face of it,

They have gone down in history as the pioneers of the aviation industry. Wilbur and Orville Wright were the first

The idea of a vaccine is counter-intuitive. Who would think of giving a person a disease to prevent them

Life is a beach. The waves lap the shore. The winds blow, sometimes off shore, sometimes on shore. Some days

For Antarctic explorers the hidden crevasse is the mortal enemy. It lies in wait, ready to devour a man, his

Radiation was Marie Curie’s field of expertise. She knew more about radiation than any other person on the planet.

The twenty seven men huddled together on the ice and waited. No one spoke. Really, there was nothing to say.

Katharine Graham was forty six when her life took a dramatic turn. Her husband, the fizz of her life as

John Keats, the poet, lived in the land of the pea-souper. He knew a thing or two about getting around