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Hi! I’m Signore Galilei, and I write books, create educational videos online, and participated in the Inkhaven blogging residency.
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You’ll never guess who made the first wireless telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is widely credited with inventing the telephone, in 1876. It’s not entirely undisputed: Elisha Gray, Antonio Meucci, and Johann Philipp Reis each also have a decent claim as well, but Bell’s name is the one we most associate with the invention that lets us send a voice through a wire. So what…
What Columbus used instead of the North Star
Christopher Columbus didn’t navigate by the North Star. At least, not directly. Columbus is a controversial figure from a modern perspective, and he undeniably made many mistakes. But this wasn’t one of them. Mariners sailing for Spain and Portugal in the 1490s just didn’t use the North Star as true north. Because back then, it…
The round-the-world escape from Pearl Harbor
December 7th, 1941: a date that will live in infamy, though not exclusively for the reason you think. Imperial Japan didn’t just attack Pearl Harbor on the first day of the Pacific War. It was part of a coordinated assault across the Pacific. The Japanese bombed American territories in the Philippines, Midway, Wake Island, and…