Three More Ageless Athletes Who Kick Keister
The Iron Nun, The Turbaned Tornado, and Olga the Magnificent. They’re all over 80 and they’ve all earned their colorful nicknames!
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Rosie the Riveter Learns To Fly
Rose Monroe wanted to train as pilot during WWII, but was disqualified for being a single mother. She became a riveter instead — you may know her as Rosie. And she did learn to fly.
Who’s Bill Gates’ Favorite Teacher?
Salman Khan makes high-quality education available to anyone, one video at a time. Bill Gates’ kids thinks he’s the bomb.
Veteran Don Mittelstaedt Makes His Movie!
From World War II battlefields to freezing Bering Sea research to Pan Am World Airways glamor, Don Mittelstaedt has shot it all. His life reads like a movie and at age 92, he’s made one!
William Gay: Eulogy for a Luminous Southern Gothic Writer First Published at Age 55
William Gay was the son of a sharecropper. He grew up a blue-collar worker, barely making a living, writing at night. At age 55, after countless rejections, he got published.
Heinrich Schliemann & the Truth About Troy, Pt. 2
Heinrich Schliemann–discoverer of Homer’s Troy, self-taught polyglot, self-made man. Admirable accomplishments. But did he go too far with Agamemnon’s mask?