I still find it amazing that we went from first flight 1903 and 65 years later landed on the moon.
My great aunt remembered the first motorcar to arrive at her village, and lived to fly across the Atlantic in a jetliner.
My great aunt remembered the first motorcar to arrive at her village, and lived to fly across the Atlantic in a jetliner.
65 years and Two World Wars later...
This quote [1] from the movie 'The Third man' might be relevant.
>in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock?
[1]http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0041959/quotes?item=qt0359443
Full disclosure - I'm Swiss. As our history teacher put it: "The Swiss were always fighting, and if they weren't fighting each other they were hired by others and fought other Swiss mercenaries on the battlefield under different banners."
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_Switzer...