The Four Minute Mile. Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister is the first human to run the mile under 4 minutes time. Up until he did it in 1954, most people thought the four-minute mark was impossible to break. They thought the human body couldn’t physically go that fast. No one could run a mile in lessContinue reading “Nothing is impossible, the Roger Bannister story.”
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A letter for my Son
Today is the last day of my son’s matric board exam. On the way to drop him at his school ( last day in this almamater) I asked him, ” what do you want to study in future?” His mother wants him to be an engineer. Because one of his cousin has just completed BEContinue reading “A letter for my Son”
Father Damien
In 1856, the Hawaiian government forcibly quarantined its lepers on the remote island of Molokai. Father Damien was a Belgian priest who, at great risk to his own health, moved to Molokai in 1873 to care for the leper community. Father Damien built an orphanage on the island. He would change sufferers’ bandages with hisContinue reading “Father Damien”
Saint Vitus Dance
The “Dancing Plague” One day in 1518 in Strasbourg, then part of the Holy Roman Empire, a woman started spontaneously dancing in the street, and she only stopped dancing when she collapsed from exhaustion. Other townsfolk began joining in as well, jerking their limbs in every which way. More and more people danced until bloodContinue reading “Saint Vitus Dance”
The fall of Incas
Incas of Peru were a great civilization. In fact they were the greatest empire of the sixteenth century world. They had an army of 80,000. In 1525, they had an unusual visitor. It was only a small group of Spanish explorer. But one of the Spaniard was infected with small pox. This Spaniard infected theContinue reading “The fall of Incas”
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