Signal Hill Wireless, St. John's, Newfoundland
Where Marconi RECEIVED the 1st Transatlantic Wireless Signal
Did you know that Marconi’s company was selected to supply the wireless for the first (maiden, and last) voyage of the Titanic (15-Apr-1912)? Unfortunately, the wireless operator on duty that fateful night was so preoccupied with sending a huge backlog of passenger wireless messages (to Cape Race, Newfoundland) that he didn't pass on the last 2 warning messages of nearby icebergs to the Titanic captain...
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Choose only one master, Nature. - Rembrandt
Colors are the smiles of nature. - Leigh Hunt
I view art as an inspirational tool. - Thomas Kincade
The view only changes for the lead dog. - Norman O. Brown
Nature provides exceptions to every rule. - Margaret Fuller
A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule. - Michael Pollan
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nuewal
Treehouses are the ultimate return to nature. - Pete Nelson
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her. - William Wordsworth
The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. - Unknown
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory. - Julius Caesar
Camping is nature's way of promoting the motel business. - Dave Barry
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. - Euclid
In all things of nature, there is something of the marvelous. - Aristotle
Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things. - Epictetus
Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view. - Thomas á Kempis
If anybody starts using me as scenery, I'll return to New York. - Grace Kelly
Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. - Marcus Aurelius
Nature never makes any blunders. When she makes a fool she means it. - Archibald Alexander
A really well made buttonhole is the only link between art and nature. - Oscar Wilde
An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery. - Walter Winchell
Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. - Pat Conroy
Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. - Garrison Keillor
I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough? - Vincent van Gogh
Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. - Al Gore
He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures. - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Middle Age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. - Harold Coffin
Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed. - Sydney Smith
Like all refugees, I am imprinted with the nature of loss and the necessity for reinvention. - Adrienne Clarkson
Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing. - Thomas Paine
For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard P Feynman
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and acitivty of man's nature. - Robert South
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. - John Muir
The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited. - Alan Kay
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire. - Aristotle
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When nature is my inspiration and subject, I am witness to an extraordinary range of color and every imaginable atmospheric condition. - Karen Casey
The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. - Edward Jenner