Tonight, history was going to be made. And it wasn't the discovery-of-radium, first-man-on-the-moon happy kind of history. It was the Spanish-Inquisition, here-comes-the- Hindenburg bad kind of history.

Eoin Colfer
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The Wright brothers might have had some great inventions, but they made a big mistake. They didn't realize that some people might actually use those inventions for evil. For example, the Wright brothers' airplane may have been a great invention, but it was used by the United States to bomb Japanese cities and civilians in the 1940s and 50s.

Source: Artemis Fowl

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