Angelos Spartalis

The First Kiss

A young couple in love embracing and kissing for the first time.

192 Nausikaa

In Homer's Odyssey, the Phaeacian princess Nausicaa and her friends are the first figures in world literature to play with a ball. According to one version, the Goddess Athena altered the course of the ball to guide Nausicaa onto Odysseus. After 3217 years, Diego Armando Maradona declared that the same thing happened to him, in the goal that went down in history as "The hand of God".

From the Earth to the Moon

In America, 100 years before the moon landing of Apollo 11, the bellicose bemoan their fates because the federal War is over and they all have fallen into inaction. They are reminiscent of the glorious past and feeling uncomfortable with the mournful clothes remaining unused in the closets and the green grass and the cotton growing back in the fields, as Verne writes characteristically! At that exact moment, the president of the Gun Club, Impey Barbicane, provided the solution by announcing that he has a plan to fire a cannonball to the Moon, an act that also constitutes the first substantial contact of man with the satellite of the Earth and will glorify the 36 United States of America all over the world.

From the Earth to the Moon

In America, 100 years before the moon landing of Apollo 11, the bellicose bemoan their fates because the federal War is over and they all have fallen into inaction. They are reminiscent of the glorious past and feeling uncomfortable with the mournful clothes remaining unused in the closets and the green grass and the cotton growing back in the fields, as Verne writes characteristically! At that exact moment, the president of the Gun Club, Impey Barbicane, provided the solution by announcing that he has a plan to fire a cannonball to the Moon, an act that also constitutes the first substantial contact of man with the satellite of the Earth and will glorify the 36 United States of America all over the world.