Introduction In 1956, policing in America gained a whole new dimension. Literally. Police Helicopters gave American Police Forces a third dimension to move in, and the first one was used by the LAPD in 1956. It successfully inspired a program to fund more helicopters and pilots for the police, dubbed “Project: Sky Knight.” Before the …
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Introduction In 1903, two North Carolina brothers broke the binds gravity had held on us for thousands of years. They built on the knowledge and innovations of those who had gone before to create something unique. Although they weren’t the first to try, they were the first to succeed. For roughly half that time, LEGO …
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I vividly remember the turn of the millennium. People were rabidly terrified of “Y2K”, a phenomenon that they insisted would crash all the computers in the world and plunge us into a new dark age. Clearly, that didn’t end up happening. That doesn’t mean that times didn’t change. The end of a decade is considered …
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We’re an insatiably curious and creative species. Mankind has dreamed of what lays among the stars for as long as we’ve been able to gaze up at them. The saying is, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” and humans have always sought to fill those voids. There’s no more immense void than open space. Who knows what …
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The eighties were a time of neon lights, loud music, and changing perceptions. Where the seventies were a time of pastels and abstractions, the eighties were about the angles and electric shades of otherwise typical colors. At least, that’s the impression I get from old cartoons. I just barely missed out on the eighties. However, …
The 70s were an exciting time. I assume. I wasn’t actually there and lack the magical ability to see the past. (Beyond having the same capacity with Google that most of us do.) However, my mother was there during this time and was also a LEGO fan. Fortunately for me, she was also a massive …
Star Trek has been delighting audiences for almost sixty years. It’s a series that has promoted boundless discovery and dares to imagine a society of hopeful utopia. Humanity in Star Trek has built a culture that doesn’t know hunger, war, poverty, or sickness. It’s a world where anyone can use simple tools to create anything their imaginations can …
The nineties were the best. I say this as the ultimate authority: a child from the late eighties who grew up in the nineties. Despite being the best, the nineties were a terrible time for many things. Music was up and down during the decade, as we got some great hits and terrible songs that …
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Reader, Rita’s escaped! Recruit a multi-colored tightly-interlocking system of building blocks with attitude! If you’re a nineties baby, like me, then there’s a good chance you know that line by heart. Aside from the building blocks, the line remains accurate to the original Power Rangers series. A group of teenagers working together in a tightly-interlocked team (seriously, …
