Thoughts on history and culture.
Seventy-three years ago, on January 6, 1947, Pan-American World Airways offered its very first around-the-world airline ticket. In that heady time just after World War II you could fly on a...
Have you heard of a "seer" or "prophet" named Nostradamus? Chances are pretty good that you have. What do you know about him? If you're like most people, probably not much more than this: he lived...
Forty-five years ago today, on August 30, 1974, at least one and probably two grisly murders occurred in one of the most faraway locales on...
As I'm sure you're aware with all the commemorations, today is the 50th anniversary of the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon, arguably one of the finest achievements in human history. I'm sure...
On the previous incarnation of this blog I published an article (which I will re-post again) about the history and implications of the wave of suicides in Germany in the spring of 1945, during the...
Today is a very grim anniversary. Forty years ago today, on November 18, 1978, nearly a thousand members of a religious group called the People's Temple, most of them Americans, died in a...
This is the fourth and...
This article is third in a series on the mysterious “treasure pit” of Oak Island, Nova Scotia, where people have been conducting...
This is Part II of my series of articles on Oak Island, a small island in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada, where people have believed fervently...
For a long time now, I’ve wanted to do a series of articles about one of the greatest and most fun historical mysteries of all time: the famed...
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