These are some of the things humans have managed to do over the years.
"The worst part of having a wild imagination is that sometimes it works against you.”
Today's film came out in 1992. It starred Gerard Depardieu, Armand Assante, Sigourney Weaver, and Fernando Rey, who as Christopher Columbus’s son Fernando says, "Of all the words my father wrote - and there were many - I remember these the most: "Nothing that results from human progress is achieved with unanimous consent. And those who are enlightened before the others are condemned to pursue that light in spite of others."
We also mark the anniversary of the births of John Lennon, Guillermo del Toro, Steve McQueen, Jacques Tati, Ivo Andrić, Bruce Catton, Robert de Sarbon, and America's first official scientific expedition.
Today's image comes courtesy of the Sorbonne, and has no title. It is by Jean Chaufourier.
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