https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/amateur-who-helped-einstein-see-light
“You see,” he said, “the light from a distant star will be bent as it passes the nearer star and the effect will be a great brightening that anyone can see with a small telescope.”
Mandl inquired whether Science News Letter would publish his ideas. But then as now, people off the street do not ordinarily possess sufficient scientific credibility to warrant news coverage of their ideas. Nevertheless, Mandl’s science seemed plausible. So Science News Letter’s astute journalists offered to pay his way to Princeton to visit Einstein himself. That meeting took place on April 17, 1936.
http://www.bbc.com/news/education-34844669
"An examination of the bear's skull has shown that she had lost most of her teeth in old age - and museum director Sam Alberti suggests that this could have been because of children feeding her honey or sticky buns."
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/publications/books/war-stories-from-the-future
Science fiction military tales - free to download!
Randal Munroe (of xkcd) explains Einstein's relativity using words you can understand.
"We've had many opportunities to change the course of history…"