The Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville who made the first recorded flight using their 'Flyer' model in December 1903. Over the next several years, they developed aircraft leading to increasing levels of sophistication, gaining records for the first flights lasting more than one hour, and later two hours. They played a critical role in the development of modern aeroplanes. Their greatest contribution was the development of better plane control, based on the three-axis control system.


Amelia Earhart. First women to successfully fly solo across the Atlantic. Set many records and encouraged women to take up flying. Went missing, presumed dead during a trans-global record attempt.

Other Early Aeroplane Pioneers

Sir Charles Kingsford Smith - Made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia in 1928 and the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland.

Karl Jatho. Developed a motorised glider.

Hiram Stevens Maxim - famous for his wind tunnel tests, though his test plane never took off.

Giacomo D'Angelis was a Corsic-Indian aviation pioneer who became famous for the probably first flight of an own-built aircraft in 1910.


Richard Pearse A group of aviation historians in New Zealand claims that Pearse flew about a kilometer by the end of March 1902 and a similar distance in 1903. However, no proof of this flight has been presented although the topic has been researched since 1958.

Czesław Zbierański - First single wing planes. With Stanislaw Cywiński in the years of 1910–1911 constructed plane with 1 pairs of wings. On September 25, 1911 in Warsaw, the plane piloted by Michal Scipio del Campio flew distance around 15–20 kilometers.

Diego Marín Aguilera (Spain) flew a flying machine on May 15, 1793, of his own invention for approximately 360 meters at a height of 5–6 meters. Unfortunately, the residents of his town, believing him to be a lunatic, heretic, or a fraud, burned his creation and Marín Aguilera never attempted another flight.

Giuseppe Mario Bellanca of Sciacca, Sicily (later New York City), was an airplane designer and builder who created the first monoplane in the United States with an enclosed cabin.

Charles Lindbergh (US), the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, New York to Paris, in 1927.

E. Lilian Todd (US), first woman to design an airplane.

• List of courageous people

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
Albert Einstein

"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
Winston Churchill

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
Winston Churchill

"Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others."
Winston Churchill

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
Mark Twain

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
Confucius

"Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
William Shakespeare

"One man with courage is a majority."
Thomas Jefferson

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nominate a courageous person in comments below.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

- Leaves of Grass, Walt Whitman

"Talk not so much, then, young artist, of the great old masters, who but painted and chisell’d. Study not only their productions. There is a still higher school for him who would kindle his fire with coal from the altar of the loftiest and purest art. It is the school of all grand actions and grand virtues, of heroism, of the death of patriots and martyrs — of all the mighty deeds written in the pages of history — deeds of daring, and enthusiasm, devotion, and fortitude. "

Walt Whitman

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty.

 - Walt Whitman

Henceforth I ask not good-fortune, I myself am good-fortune,
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
Strong and content I travel the open road.

 - Walt Whitman , Song Of The Open Road

O to make the most jubilant song!
Full of music-full of manhood, womanhood, infancy!
Full of common employments-full of grain and trees.

 - Walt Whitman , Song Of Joys

Come said the Muse,
Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted,
Sing me the universal.

 - Walt Whitman , Song Of The Universal

Let me have my own way,
Let others promulge the laws, I will make no account of the laws,
Let others praise eminent men and hold up peace, I hold up agitation
and conflict,
I praise no eminent man, I rebuke to his face the one that was
thought most worthy.

 - Walt Whitman , Myself And Mine

Young man I think I know you- I think this face is the face of the
Christ himself,
Dead and divine and brother of all, and here again he lies.

 - Walt Whitman , A Sight In Camp In The Daybreak Grey And Dim

• Walt Whitman Biography

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Suggest someone who has made a positive contribution to the world.

It can be in any field

• Arts
• Politics
• Music
• Literature
• Sport
• Humanitarian

They must be people who have left the world in a better place.

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• People who made a difference

"Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. "
- Mother Teresa


“The 'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering."
- Audrey Hepburn

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive."
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill

“Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.”
St. Francis of Assisi

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there."
Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) British clergyman and author.

"With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in."
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) Politician. President of the United States.


"Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does."
Simone Weil (1910-1943) French Philosopher

"You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity."
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) British author.

"Charity sees the need, not the cause."
German proverb

"Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.

"Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself."
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist.

“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Mahatma Gandhi

• Famous Charity Workers

“Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.”
- Steve Jobs

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me.” – Steve Jobs as quoted in The Wall Street Journal (Summer 1993).

“We’ve gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time.” – ABC News, Jobs on Mac OS X Beta

“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”

“I want to put a ding in the universe.”

"We're gambling on our vision, and we would rather do that than make "me too" products. Let some other companies do that. For us, it's always the next dream."

- Interview about the release of the Macintosh (24 January 1984)

"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds."

- Memory and Imagination: New Pathways to the Library of Congress (1991)

"Unfortunately, people are not rebelling against Microsoft. They don’t know any better."

- Interview in Rolling Stone magazine, no. 684 (16 June 1994)

"We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on."

- Interview in Macworld magazine (February 2004)

“I was worth over $1,000,000 when I was 23, and over $10,000,000 when I was 24, and over $100,000,000 when I was 25, and it wasn’t that important because I never did it for the money.”

“Bill Gates‘d be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.” – The New York Times, Creating Jobs, 1997

“The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste. And I don’t mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way, in the sense that they don’t think of original ideas, and they don’t bring much culture into their products.” – YouTube

“It’s not about pop culture, and it’s not about fooling people, and it’s not about convincing people that they want something they don’t. We figure out what we want. And I think we’re pretty good at having the right discipline to think through whether a lot of other people are going to want it, too. That’s what we get paid to do.” – CNNMoney

“So when a good idea comes, you know, part of my job is to move it around, just see what different people think, get people talking about it, argue with people about it, get ideas moving among that group of 100 people, get different people together to explore different aspects of it quietly, and, you know – just explore things.” – CNNMoney

“When I hire somebody really senior, competence is the ante. They have to be really smart. But the real issue for me is, Are they going to fall in love with Apple? Because if they fall in love with Apple, everything else will take care of itself. They’ll want to do what’s best for Apple, not what’s best for them, what’s best for Steve, or anybody else.”

“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? And we’ve all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it.” – Fortune

• Biography Steve Jobs

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Catherine and William, on the yoyal balcony at Buckingham Palace. Over 1 million were estimated to line the streets of London, with a further 2 billion watching on TV. A record global tv audience.

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"Blessed [are] the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."

Matthew 5:9

Religion has been used for a variety of purposes. It has been used to justify war, it has been used to inspire men to higher ideals.

Religion is tool that can be used in various ways. With a knife we can stab our neighbour, we can also use it to cut an apple in half and share.

The essence of a divine religion is to love God, and love the truth. If we love God and our fellow men, how can we use it to create conflict? If we see our religion as superior and the only right religion, then this attitude does invariably create conflict.

Often the prophets of God are misunderstood. Jesus told us to love our fellow man as ourself. He told us to love even our enemies. But have those who professed the Christain faith always followed this teaching?

Now whose fault is that - the prophet who teaches love or the adherent who listens primarily to his own ego?

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Land Girls The Women's Land Army was formed in June 1939, to help combat the agricultural labour shortage, caused by men enlisting at the outbreak World War II. Between eighty and ninety thousand women worked on farms up and down the country, many carrying out tasks they were unused to or untrained for. These women helped to ensure that vital domestic food supplies were available throughout the war years

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"A smile is the beginning of peace."
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