Carolann's Newsletters

Dear Friends, Tangents: 1945: Polio vaccine announced. 1961: First man in space, Yuri Gagarin, USSR. PHOTOS OF THE DAY A man walks through the installation

Dear Friends, Tangents: On this day in 1970, Apollo 13, the third lunar landing mission, was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Dear Friends, Tangents: Safety pin patented, April 10th, 1849. April 10th, 1942: Bataan Death March. PRIME NUMBERS: 2 Northern white rhinoceroses remaining in the world (both

Dear Friends, Tangents: April 9, 1917 – Canadians Capture Vimy Ridge World War I – Arthur Currie leads all four divisions of the Canadian

Dear Friends, Tangents: Happy Friday! 1483 ~ The painter, Raphael was born. 1896- Athens, Greece: First modern Olympics held. 1806 ~Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet, was

Dear Friends, Tangents: April 5, 1958 – Ripple Rock blown up with 1.2 tons of Nitramex, in world’s largest non-nuclear explosion to date;