Volume 10

“Mr. Ali” is widely credited for creating chicken tikka masala.

“To discover people who have new ways of saying things with film is thrilling. It keeps the idea alive that there are still surprises out there.”

“There’s no way you can visualize the speed,” Kittinger said later. “I could only hear myself breathing in the helmet.”

For the first time ever, the existence of a Congressional Medal of Honor for valor was made Top Secret, for a good reason.

Frank Robinson refused to believe what his employers insisted: that there was no market for small “personal” helicopters.

He wrote for, directed, produced (or even created) some of the most classic TV comedies ever.

“If there were some prize for ‘Important and Consequential People Who Are Unknown to the General Public’, Ernie would be a top contender.”

She wrote the first assembly language for a general-purpose computer, symbolic machine code that computers can “understand” without interpretation.

After the war, Baker married Joe Aylard — and even didn’t tell him what she did during the war for about 20 years.

Best known as the lyricist for “Puff the Magic Dragon” but should be known for pioneering film projection technology.