Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell was born in London on this day in 1810. Elizabeth Gaskell was close friends with novelist Charlotte Brontë, the author of Jane Eyre. After Brontë died, Gaskell wrote the biography The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857), which many scholars now consider a definitive work.
"And three years later, in the desert outside of Los Alamos, Fermi watched as the first atomic bomb was exploded." - Actually, White Sands is quite a way from Los Alamos, in the southern part of New Mexico.
"And three years later, in the desert outside of Los Alamos, Fermi watched as the first atomic bomb was exploded." - Actually, White Sands is quite a way from Los Alamos, in the southern part of New Mexico.