Photo of the Day
Per the Smithsonian, the smiley face as we know it today was created by Harvey Ross Ball, an American graphic artist in 1963, he created the design in ten minutes and was paid $ 45.
Americana
Classic Film clips of America - 1896 to 1903
A video from the 1960s and the Watts riots in Los Angeles
CBS News Report on Nostalgia in the 1970s
Explore America
Wisconsin - The Cheese State
Charles Schulz the creator of world-famous cartoon series Peanuts, talks about his career, cartoon and so on.
Charles M. Schulz… November 26, 1922 - February 12, 2000 - Creator of the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip, Charles Monroe Schulz, is considered by his peers to be one of the most influential cartoonists of all times. The comic, featuring ’Charlie Brown’, ‘Snoopy’, ‘Lucy’, ‘Linus’ and the rest of the Peanuts gang has warmed the hearts of Americans for generations. The cartoon is known for its sarcastic humor, childhood fantasies and the depiction of the inner thoughts of a household pet. According to ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ creator Bill Watterson, ‘Peanuts pretty much defines the modern comic strip’, adding that ‘in countless ways, Schulz blazed the wide trail that most every cartoonist since has tried to follow’. Schulz, whose nickname was ‘Sparky’, was born on November 26, 1922 and lived until February 12, 2000. Though many people are unaware, the first appearance of ‘Charlie Brown’ was in a weekly comic strip called ‘Li'l Folks’ that appeared St. Paul Pioneer Press, from June 22, 1947 to January 22, 1950.
New Hampshire
CLASSIC NEW ENGLAND SCENES
Documentary of the Day
Neil Armstrong | First Man on the Moon
One Giant Step for Mankind
The Luner Module “Eagle” landed on the Moon at Tranquility Base
on July 20, 1969 at 4:18 p.m. EDT,
Neil Armstrong realized that they were heading into a field of boulders on the northeast shoulder of a crater the size of a football field. Drama was the last thing that any one had wanted. A warning light was telling him he had less than 60 seconds of fuel left, but they were close now and it was just a matter of easing themselves down. Forty seconds had passed since the sixty-second warning, and Armstrong proclaimed "The Eagle Has Landed."
For the astronauts, the landing had been the big moment of the mission. But, for the waiting world, the big moment was still to come - the first footstep.
Armstrong stood on the pad for a moment or two, testing the soil with the tip of his boot before he made the epochal "small step" proclaiming "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind."
With only a short time at their disposal, he and Aldrin raised an American Flag, gathered forty-seven pounds of samples, and took about one hundred color photographs. Finally they got themselves back into the spacecraft for a safe return to earth.
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