"You don't know you're making history when it's happening," said Charity Adams Earley, the trailblazing Army battalion commander. "I just wanted to do my job."U.S. ArmyCharity Adams Earley.
Charity Adams Earley was born in a segregated United States. This did not stop her from becoming the highest-ranked female, black officer in the army during World War II. Her mantra: “I just wanted to do my job.”
Born Into Jim Crow When Charity Edna Adams was born on Dec. Read More...
When Tomoaki Hamatsu, a.k.a. Nasubi, was cast on the show "Susunu! Denpa Shōnen" in 1998, he had no idea he'd spend the next 15 months of his life naked and isolated in an apartment — or that his ordeal would be broadcast live to 17 million people.Nippon Television / YouTubeNasubi translates to “eggplant,” a nickname given to Tomoaki Hamatsu because of his long face shape and because producers used an eggplant to cover his genitals on screen. Read More...
The moth, called "xanthopan praedicta," or "Wallace's sphinx moth," has a tongue that stretches nearly one foot long. Minet et al. 2021Wallace’s sphinx moth, top, has a much longer tongue than the similar Morgan sphinx moth.
While studying the long-necked Madagascar star orchid in 1862, Charles Darwin suddenly had an exciting thought. Some insects, he mused, must have a tongue long enough to feed on the plant. “Good heavens,” he exclaimed to a friend, “what insect can suck it! Read More...
