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A Coffee Powered Vehicle?
We all know that coffee can get humans active, but powering
a car? However, it was successfully demonstrated, on February,
19th, 2013. The modified pickup was able to exceed 65 mph,
the fastest land speed achieved by a car running on gas using
organic waste. Not surprisingly, it was immediately included
into the Guinness World Records.
Impressed? You will be even more so, when you find out that this
is not the first time engineer Martin Bacon has built a coffee
powered vehicle worthy of a world record. In 2010, he and his
team powered a modified 1988 Volkswagen Scirocco and drove
it for about 209 miles all the way from London to Manchester-
the longest drive ever undertaken, by an espresso powered vehicle!
Of course, Martin is not the first person to think of a food-powered car.
In 2009, researchers from Warwick University designed a Formula 3
racing car that ran on chocolate extract. The entire car
was built from recycled materials.
9. Martin Luther King
During his short but effective life as preacher and civil
rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. gave many
speeches. The greatest was the one he delivered in 1963
while standing on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.
Over 250,000 people, rich & poor, black & white, had gathered there.
They stage a peaceful protest against the discrimination,
unemployment and the economic inequality suffered by African
Americans a century after the Emancipation Proclamation that
ended slavery. The protestors listened attentively as
the speakers talked about the various issues. Martin Luther King Jr.
was the last to speak. As usual, he delivered a passionate speech
for about 15 minutes. Then, just as the crowd thought he was winding
down, he uttered the inspiring words that ring true in everyone's
ears till today: I have a dream that my four little children will one day
live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin
but by the content of their character. I have a dream. . .' He finished his
address with the famous sentence: "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God
Almighty. We are free at last!"