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A Charlie Brown Christmas

A sequel to the last post: In December 1965 came A Charlie Brown Christmas, the most successful special in television history. In a simple story from Peanuts’ creator Charles Schulz where Charlie Brown looks for genuine meaning in Christmas while Snoopy and Lucy revel in its glitter, the show defied convention…

The Earth is Round

The ancient Greeks determined the Earth was a sphere and calculated its diameter over 1700 years before Columbus sailed to America: “The Greeks had noticed that on occasion, Earth blocks the sunlight from hitting the Moon, causing what is called a lunar eclipse. By observing the shadow of Earth cast upon…