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The Woodstock, one of the most famous music festivals of the world and that iconic photograph, 1960                                                     Samuel Decker who is American Civil War veteran and lost his arms in war and made new prosthesis arms for himself on his own 1860.                                                        Bison Head Hill 1870                   Bison head mass which are prepared to be burried because of the thought of it'll enrich the soil and make fertilizer effect.                                             ...

Jiangxi - Most of us will not have enough money to buy a supercar . For the same reason , a man from China finally create stunning works : supercar from wood . The News Wheel launch on Monday ( 16/02/2015 ) , Yu Jietao origin Jiangxi province , China , is a carpenter who use their skills to create a dream vehicle . Jietao disarm intentionally body electric cars purchased to be modified and replaced with rosewood material which is famous for good quality . For matters of design , this car does not resemble any supercar . This car is predominantly red with carvings in many places . On the hood of the car 's mass , the results of engraving makes the hood shaped like a person 's face . While carving on the door of the car to make it look like wings . ( Photo : http://thenewswheel.com/ ) This wooden supercar definitely attract a lot of media attention . From there , many parti...

Helen Adams Keller was born on June 27, 1880. Nineteen months later, she had severe illness that left her blind and deaf. Her parents had hope for her. They had read Charles Dickens' report of the aid given to another blind and deaf girl, Laura Bridgman. When Helen was 6 years old, her parents took her to see Alexander Graham Bell, famed teacher of the deaf and inventor of the telephone. As a result of his advice, Anne Mansfield Sullivan began to teach Helen in 1887. Until her death in 1936, she remained Helen's teacher and constant companion. Sullivan had been almost blind in early life, but her sight had seen partially restored, Helen soon learnt the finger-tip, or manual, alphabet as well as Braille - a system of writing for blind people, using raised dots which can be read by touch. By placing her sensitive fingers on the lips and throat of her teachers, she felt their motions and learnt to ''hear'' them speak. Three years after mastering the manual al...

One od the greatest influences on Japaneese literature was a medical doctor. At the end of the 19th century Ogai Mori helped to modernize both japanese medicine and Japanese literature. Ogai Mori, whose real name was Rintaro Mori, was born in Tsuwano, Japan, on February 17, 1862. He graduated from the University of Tokyo medical school, and affected him profoundly, and he returned home convinced that Japan should embrace the best of European culture and medicine, but selectively, without recklessly destroying traditional Japanese ways. In 893, he was appointed head of Japan's military academy, but his literary career had already begun. His first story, The Dancing Girl, a tale based on friends he had made in Germany, was published in Japanese in 1890. This caused a sensation among Japanese writers, who had a tradition of composing less personal works, and the course of Japanese fiction was changed. Mori's post popular novel. The Wild Goose, was also based on his ow...

Apollo 13 was an American space mission in 1970, part of the Apollio program. It was intended to be the third mission to land on the Moon. An oxygen tank in the Service Module exploded while the spacecraft was on its way to single pass around the Moon was made. Considerable ingenuity under extreme pressure was required from both the crew and the ground controllers to figure out how to jury-rig the craft for the crew's safe return, with much of the world watching the drama on television. Reentry into the Earth's atmosphere required the unusual step of undocking the lunar module, which had been retained for the flight back to Earth, in addition to the separation of the damaged service module. The lunar module had remained attached to the spacecraft to provide emergency propulsion and life support. The crew returned unharmed to the Earth In the wake of the near-disaster, NASA appointed a review board under the leadership of Edgar M. Cortright, director of Langle...

, Paul McCartney was born in Liverpool, England, to Marry and James McCartney, Paul's introduction to music was through his father, who was the founder of Jim Mac's Jazz Band. It was shortly after his mother's death from breast cancer in 1956 that McCartney immersed himself in learning to play the guitar. His mastery of early Rock n Roll songs impressed his friends and created an opportunity for him to join John Lennon in a social group that would later become The Beatles. McCartney, who is most famous for playing bass in the band, composed many memorable songs, including ''Yesterday'' (1965). ''Eleanor Rigby'' (1956) ''Sgt Peppers Lonely Heart Clubs Band'' (1967), ''Hey Jude'' (1968), and ''Let It Be'' (1969). His willingness to sign autographs, pose for pictures, and give interviews caused the mass media to dub him ''the cute Beatle''. That title, combined with the prevalent...

The adoption of assassination as a political weapon derives from the Islamic world of the 11th century. A secret order of Muslims was founded in Persila in about 1090 by a man named Hasan-i Sabbah, after gaining control of a mountain fortress near tha Caspian Sea, Hasan founded a sect to fight his political enemies by means of murder. Hasan and his followers were known as Nizaris and belonged to the Isma'ili branch of Shi'i Islam. For two centuries this secret organization terrorized the Middle East. Hasan, who gained the nickname ''Old Man of the Mountain'' from his fortress hideaway, is said to have given his followers a vision-inducing drug called hashish, made from Indian hemp. The visions of Islamic paradise brought on by the drug persuaded his diciples that they would have a glorious afterlife if they followed Hasan's orders and killed his enemies. The killers were called Hashshashin, the plural of an Arabic word meaning ''one who smokes ha...