Space Shuttle: The Last Mission. (2011). The History Channel website. Retrieved 8:29, July 12, 2011, from http://www.history.com/videos/space-shuttle-the-last-mission. Space Shuttle: The Last Mission (4:57) Space shuttle Atlantis is set to lift off on the final flight of the storied shuttle program this summer, marking the end of an era for NASA.

Source: Scientific America An experiment conceived a half century ago has confirmed Einstein’s general relativity predictions of the spacetime effects of Earth’s mass and spin. Karen Hopkin reports  | May 6, 2011 | Albert Einstein wins again. A new study has confirmed another prediction of his theory of general relativity. The corroboration appears online in the journal Physical Review Letters. [Francis Everitt et al., citation to come.] Einstein’s theory recognizes that massive objects warp the very fabric of space and time. If the theory is true, then the Earth should stretch the spacetime in which it sits, like a bowling ball would deform a trampoline. What’s more, the Earth’s rotation should also produce a…

The1850’s in America were ripe with sectional tension. The issue of slavery had become the predominate issue that would permeate local, state and national politic’s for the entire decade of the 1850s. One of the battle ground territories during this period was Kansas. On July 3rd, 1856, the federal House of Representatives votes to admit Kansas as a state into he union, however the Senate rejects the bill. Almost five years later, Congress does admit Kansas as the 34th and more importantly, as a slave free state on January 29th, 1861.