BRITS AND EUROPEANS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE U.S., WHILE TRYING TO TREAT AMERICANS AS KNOW-NOTHINGS:
The Wright Brother's flight happened in North Carolina.
The Manhattan Project happened primarily in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The uranium was enriched in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the techniques were developed.
The Moon Landing used rockets designed and built in Huntsville,… https://t.co/Os9HEebojJ
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I remember, it must have been 20 years ago, I was on an NPR show with a German reporter debating U.S. foreign policy when she suddenly interjected “have you ever been abroad, do you even have a passport?” I replied that yes I did, and that in fact I had lived in Heidelberg while my dad taught at the university there, her alma mater.