24 July 1911 July 24, 2015 Author: Staff The explorer, Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, which is known as “the Lost City of the Incas”. Famous Words of Inspiration..."We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams — Click here for more from John Adams Related posts: 22 August 1911 25 March 1911 18 September 1911 21 January 1911 10 September 1961 10 September 1961 24 July 2005 24 July 1950 24 July 1977 24 July 1983 Categories: History Tags: 1911, 24 July