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In celebration of International Women’s Day, we’re highlighting some historically significant items from Ingenium’s collection intrinsically linked of the incredible contributions of women in STEM.

Good morning, my reading friend of the Milky Way. Yours truly dares to hope that the weather, outside, does not affect your little neurons too much. I would like to offer you this week a subject of a scale that could not be more reasonable, inspired by a very brief article found in the 20 February 1960 issue of the weekly magazine Perspectives inserted in the same day issue of the daily Le Soleil of Québec, Québec – and of La Tribune of Sherbrooke, Québec, my homecity, and… You are quite right

You will have undoubtedly have noted, my, oh so observant reading friend, the presence of a few automobiles, microcars to be more precise, in recent issues of out blog / bulletin / thingee. It’s not that yours truly loves / likes automobiles. I was simply intrigued by the existence of these vehicles. This week, I would like to assume my wingnuttyness, for a change. Let us therefore look into the story of an airplane, and that of its designer, through a photograph found in the February 1945 issue

As a greeting, my reading friend, I make you the solemn promise to be brief, at least for this week. Let us begin our peroration, dare I say (type?) pontification, with a visit to the second edition of the Salon (international?) de l’Auto, held at Place Bonaventure, in Montréal, Québec, from 15 to 25 January 1970. One of the many, many visitors at this event was none other than Charles Aznavour, born Shahnourh Varinag Aznavourian. This world famous French author composer interpreter, actor and