On February 20, 1962, John H. Glenn, Jr. [1], the oldest of seven astronauts selected by NASA [2] for Project Mercury [3] spaceflight training (and later a U.S. senator), became on this day in 1962 the first American to orbit Earth [4], doing so three times.
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On February 20, 1902, Ansel Adams [5], the most important landscape photographer [6] of the 20th century, was born in San Francisco.
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Today is also the birthday of novelist and screenwriter Richard Matheson (1926–2013). He wrote many sci-fi television scripts. His novella I Am Legend later was adapted into three different movies over the course of five decades, and his story Bid Time Return became the charming movie Somewhere In Time.
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Today we present a short guest article by a SurvivalBlog reader. It was too short to qualify for the writing contest judging.
We are now seeking entries for Round 111 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest [7].
More than $875,000 worth of prizes have been awarded since we started running this contest. In 2023, we polled blog readers, asking for suggested article topics [8]. Refer to that poll if you haven’t yet chosen an article topic. Round 111 ends on March 31st, so get busy writing and e-mail [9] us your entry. Remember that there is a 1,500-word minimum, and that articles on practical “how-to” skills for survival have an advantage in the judging.