Chong Broomhead

“The discovery of curium was part of the Manhattan Project, so it stayed secret until World War II ended. It was supposed to be announced at an American Chemical Society meeting, but was accidentally revealed early on a kids’ radio show. The name was chosen to honor Marie and Pierre Curie for their work in radioactivity.”
― Sybrina Durant, Magical Elements of the Periodic Table Presented By The Actinide Knights

“Did you see them? When I looked at the soldiers, I felt the British soldiers’ eyes boring into us, and I knew they were intently observing our battle with the two horses and wagon.”
― Dorlies von Kaphengst Meissner Rasmussen, Escaping the Russian Onslaught: A Family’s Story of Fleeing the Russian Army after Hitler’s Nazi Regime

“At her bidding, Ophion coiled seven times around this egg, until it hatched and split in two. Out tumbles all things that exist, her children; sun, moon, planets, stars, the earth with its mountains and rivers, its trees, herbs, and living creatures.”
― Robert Graves, The Greek Myths 1

“… Some of my friends will never return, for they died on this the most extraordinary trek in history – a trek that caused untold suffering to thousands of people of many nationalities … from ‘Out of the Burma Night’ by Captain Gribble”
― Elizabeth Tebby Germaine, EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORIES OF SURVIVAL IN BURMA WW2: tens of thousands fled to India from the Japanese Invasion in 1942