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  SDC NEWS ONE | FAITH & HISTORY - EXTENDED SERIES From Eden to the Wilderness: What Did the First Humans Eat, and What Did They Take With Them? By SDC News One Features Desk An educational journey through the biblical account of humanity’s first diet, the expulsion from Eden, the origins of agricultural labor, and the traditions that emerged to explain what Scripture leaves unanswered.-khs The story of humanity begins with a garden, a provision of food, a commandment, and a choice that would forever change the relationship between human beings and the earth. In the opening chapters of Genesis, the Bible presents a world in which food grows from the ground, trees produce nourishing fruit, and humanity is given responsibility for the living environment. But one question continues to invite curiosity among readers of Scripture: What did Adam and Eve eat in the Garden of Eden, and what, if anything, did they carry with them when they were driven out? It is a question that reaches ...

SDC NEWS ONE | SUNDAY LONG READ Before Aviation History Was Written in Stone: The Overlooked Story of Charles Frederick Page and the Race to Conquer the Sky A Black inventor in the age of Jim Crow pursued his own vision of flight. His machine was not the same as the Wright brothers' airplane—but the story of Charles Frederick Page raises a larger question about who gets remembered when history decides who invented the future. For generations, Americans have been taught a familiar story about the conquest of the skies. Orville and Wilbur Wright arrived at the windswept dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, on December 17, 1903, and successfully flew their powered, controlled, heavier-than-air machine. Their achievement became one of the defining technological moments in American history. The Wright brothers earned their place in that history. But there is another story from the same era—one that has received far less attention. It is the story of Charles Frederick Page , sometimes id...