Month: April 2021

  • Refuel Space Station

    Weighing more than 300 automobiles, or nearly 500 tons, the ISS or International Space Station began deployment in 1998. More than three dozen manned missions since late 2000 have included scientific experiments and work to assemble the station. Several assembly missions launched from the now retired NASA Space Shuttle platform, but the bulk of the…

  • Knoxville TN

    Knoxville Tennessee was settled before 1800 and has a law on the books making it illegal to lasso fish. Home of the 1982 Worlds Fair, Knoxville attracted more than 11 million visitors. A scenic town in rolling hills, it is north of Chattanooga and east of Nashville. Parts not for outside of town are still…

  • Seminole Peoples

    The roots of the name Seminole are from late in the 18th century with the Muskogean word that meant wild, untamed or runaway. It is thought that the core of the Seminole nation decided to leave their Creek tribe or were banished. In Florida, the Creeks had earlier intermingled with the Choctaw, especially in the…