The Real Moment

The dollhouse began as a lavish adult status symbol in the 1500s, used to teach girls homemaking before becoming the toy we know.

The French Press was born from a French failure, fixed by Italian ingenuity, and perfected in a Swiss-designed clarinet factory.

The year was 1852 when the first leaky patent was filed.

Martha, the last passenger pigeon, died at the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914, ending a species once counted in the billions.

Developing an action-to-momentum mindset is important. Even when we can’t see the finish line it is important to take incremental steps toward our goals. It is in this progress we can eventually see the results we seek.

The SS America was being towed to a new life as a hotel when a January gale snapped its lines, leaving the luxury liner adrift toward a fatal rendezvous with a Canary Island shore.

The remote town of Parachilna woke to a white Christmas for the first time in a century in 1910, defying the brutal summer heat of the Australian Outback.

The year was 1986 when a routine safety test at the Chernobyl nuclear plant triggered an explosion that released 400 times the radiation of the Hiroshima bomb.

The last thylacine died from neglect in 1936, locked out of its shelter on a freezing night. We have only seconds of film to remember an entire species.

The Great Fire of Rome raged for two weeks in 64 AD, destroying most of the ancient city and giving Nero a pretext for his first persecution of Christians.

A devastating fire destroyed Harvard's library in 1764, but one borrowed book avoided the flames and wasn't returned until 1997.