From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] One hundred years ago today
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:58:07 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

One hundred years ago today, December 14, 1911, Roald Amundsen and his
team were the first people to reach the South Pole.  This marked the
end of the horizontal age of discovery.

The vertical age of discovery, which involves mountain climbing, deep
sea diving, airplanes, balloons, and, of course, space exploration,
still continues.  It's noteworthy that the first manned spaceflight
is closer in time to 1911 than to the present.