On October 1st 1769, Isabel Godin des Odonais left her Peruvian hacienda and went deep into the jungle. She was to join her husband in Guyana, whom she had not seen him for twenty years. The expedition had 41 members, including 31 native porters to carry the sixty boxes of luggage through the...

On July 21st, 1969, man walked on the Moon. It was the space age, but sometimes, space exploration turned into a disaster. In 1970, the Apollo 13 mission flew to our satellite but never reached its goal: an explosion forced the astronauts to change their plans and return to Earth as quickly as...