OPERATION FRANKTON

            In 1942, the Royal Marine Boom Patrol Detachment was created in Great Britain.  It was a special forces unit that was trained to conduct secret missions using small boats.  It was headed by the dashing Maj. Herbert “Blondie” Hasler.  He came up with a plan to hit the Germans Read more…

The Female Dracula

Elizabeth Bathory was born on August 7, 1560.  She went on to become the “female dracula”.  Here is the legend.  How much is true cannot be determined.  Elizabeth Bathory was a Hungarian countess.  Her husband was a general and she lived in a castle in the Carpathian Mountains.  She surrounded Read more…

MURDER IN MISSISSIPPI

            In the summer of 1964, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) was helping register African-Americans to vote in Mississippi (Freedom Summer).  On April 24, the Ku Klux Klan (which had more than 10,000 members in Mississippi) had burned 61 churches as a warning to blacks and white civil rights Read more…

ANAXIMANDER

               Anaximander was the first philosophy who wrote down his ideas.  Unfortunately, most of his writings have been lost.  We do know some of them from Plato and Aristotle.  He questioned mythology and substituted natural explanations for phenomena.  He is credited with founding astronomy.  He created the first gnomen which Read more…

THE SACRED CHICKENS

In 249, the Romans sent a fleet to recapture Drepana on Sicily during the First Punic War.  It was being used as a base for raids on the Italian coast.  Consul Publius Claudius Pulcher tried to arrive at dawn to catch the Carthaginian fleet sleeping.  Unfortunately, the enemy admiral was Read more…