Robert Kahn and Vinton Cerf stepped forward a while ago and wanted to explain why they also believed that Al Gore invented the internet. That’s one of those things you hear over and over, both as a statement of fact and as a joke. Now, to give you an idea why you would care [...]
Since 1865 when the Secret Service Division was created, (July 5, 1865 in Washington, D.C. to be exact), to suppress counterfeit currency. The Secret Service has become known more for protecting the President. But the main job of the Secret Service (outside Presidential protection) is tracking down counterfeitters. If you are curious and want to [...]
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I don’t want to seem goulish, but a lot of planes must of been lost in the Sierra’s during World War Two. Every other year there is another “iceman” found in the mountains. In some cases its a mystery that lasts years. But luckily they find some identification and or they can [...]
Produced in East Germany under the directive of the Socialist government especially for the local market, the Trabant Sputnik was the epitome of Eastern bloc arrogance on four wheels. Steel was in extremely short supply in East Germany at the time (1957), forcing the Trabant’s engineers to search for a substitute. Working with the materials [...]
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I’m not surewhere this guy is from, I assume Northern California, but he did a lot of leg work. What did he research that I’m directing you to read? He wanted to find out about Prisons. Not sure what they where, but Intriguing facts. Like What is the smallest, what is the strongest, what was [...]
San Francisco in ruins, 1906, photographed from 2000 ft. The camera was elevated by a train of kites
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Sixty-five years after it vanished, a Japanese midget submarine that sank an Australian warship in Sydney harbour during the Second World War has yielded up its secrets.The two-man submarine was one of three midgets that sneaked into the harbour in May 1942 to attack the American battle cruiser USS Chicago. Two were damaged and scuttled [...]
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When I first ran across the below article my first thought was “eh, my Father-in-Law would be interested.” But as I thought about it more, John Wayne is one of those actors where even today years later I watch his films, as I’m sure many other do. All his films were entertaining. [...]
The Civil War went one for a long time, and changed the face of America in doing so. I’ve seen many movies, watched many a mini-series, and read many books on the subject, but it wasn’t until I saw this video that I got a full grasp of the ebb and flow. You hear about [...]
This wasn’t a mass suicide. There wasn’t any warfare going on. But suddenly thousands where dead. Witness reports where shaky and understandably scared. What had struck this remote area. What had caused one of the greatest calamities of the 20th century. Below is that story.
On the morning of [...]
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