History Schmistory: July 31. Houston, the Nina has landed.
Thursday, July 31, 2025
!['Columbus landing at Trinidad', From Famous Voyagers and Explorers, 1893, The British Library [public domain]](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/11223728426_a95f3a7438_o-e1434734786458.jpg)
‘Columbus landing at Trinidad’, From Famous Voyagers and Explorers, 1893, The British Library [public domain]
Ludicrous Latin: Duplicem Somnium Pedum
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
Double Dream Feet! Â Â …never gets old 🙂
History Schmistory: July 30. “Eat it, gravity!”
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
![Here goes nothing! V.Leers (De prins der geillustreerde bladen) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/468px-FirstParachute.png)
Here goes nothing!
V.Leers (De prins der geillustreerde bladen) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
History Schmistory: July 29. The Final Frontier…
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
1958: President Dwight D. Eisenhower eagerly signs a federal statute that creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
![To infinity and beyond! By Bill Ingalls [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/800px-STS-135_begins_takeoff.jpg)
To infinity and beyond!
By Bill Ingalls [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
Sadly, they were never able to get him back to his home planet.
History Schmistory: July 28. This spud’s for you.
Monday, July 28, 2025
1586: The Potato is introduced into Britain from America. It quickly adopts a flawless British accent.
‘How do you do?”
A TMP Exclusive: The Foggy London Strut
Sunday, July 27, 2025
Hey MarcoNauts, have you seen the trailer yet? It packs an olympic size punch!
See it here…
Ludicrous Latin: EGO operor non vado vultus pro perturbo. Perturbo usitas reperio mihi.
Sunday, July 27, 2025
“I don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble usually finds me.”
History Schmistory: July 27. Lend me your ears…..
Sunday, July 27, 2025
1890: Vincent van Gogh shoots himself; he dies two days later. Insert ear joke here.
!['Self Portrait' Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/489px-VanGogh-self-portrait-with_bandaged_ear.jpg)
‘Self Portrait’
Vincent van Gogh [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
History Schmistory: July 26. Mi Vidi Vi!
Saturday, July 26, 2025
![By skanita en privata biblioteko de P.FiÅo (Wikipedia/eo) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.teammarcopolo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/402px-Fundamento_de_esperanto_edistudio.jpg)
By skanita en privata biblioteko de P.FiÅo (Wikipedia/eo) [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
Fun Fact: Esperanto was the brain child of Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof and was designed as a ‘universal language’ that would help foster global connections and communication. Unfortunately it was not the success Zamenhof had hoped. Today only 10,000, in the whole world, speak it fluently. Commiseration’s Dr. Z
