Drugs played a role in WWII. One of the world leaders was a drug addict. Adolf Hitler had a personal physician (quack) who injected him daily with a variety of drugs. One was Eukodel which was a combination of oxycodone and speed. Some believe that Hitler’s erratic behavior in Read more…
One of the most important companies in the world was formed because a man wanted to see Janet Jackson’s breast. Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim were wealthy from employment with PayPal. When the company was bought by eBay, they were looking for a new opportunity. Hurley had Read more…
The French soldiers saw an ominous green cloud wafting toward their trenches. Soon they were choking and it felt like they were drowning. They were the victims of the first poison gas attack of WWI. The Germans had begun developing poison gas as soon as the war began. Famed chemist Read more…
On April 20, 1918, the greatest ace of the Great War shot down his 79th and 80thenemy aircraft. One day later, he was dead. Manfred Von Richthofen was thirty-six at the time. The Red Baron was one of the most famous persons in the world. On April 21, he Read more…
Did you know an American President survived an assassination by a swamp rabbit? It happened on April 20, 1979. President Jimmy Carter was fishing in a flat-bottomed bottom alone while on vacation in Plains, Georgia. As he told a reporter later, a swamp rabbit swam out towards the boat Read more…
Paul Revere was a well-known silversmith in Boston. He was also a spy and courier for the Sons of Liberty. It was not a secret that the British were interested in the munitions stored in Concord, but when Dr. Joseph Warren acquired intelligence about when the troops were marching Read more…
In honor of the birth of one of the great Robber Barons, here is my favorite anecdote about J.P. Morgan. He was born on April 17, 1837. J.P. Morgan had a skin condition that caused his nose to be large and ugly. He was self-conscious about this and there is Read more…
She was born on August 13, 1860 in a log cabin to a poor farm family in Ohio. Her name was Phoebe Anne Moses. Her sisters called her Annie and later she took the last name Oakley after a neighboring town. Her father died at age 6 and she was Read more…
It was supposed to be a routine reconnaissance mission in support of an American assault on a Viet Cong stronghold. But the “stronghold” was My Lai and what the helicopter crew saw was not a battle, but a massacre. The captain of the OH-23 Raven helicopter was Hugh Thompson, Read more…
The two aviators ran to their planes and took off, they landed heroes. The day was April 14, 1918. For Lt. Douglas Campbell, it was the culmination of a dream to serve his country in battle. Campbell, the son of famous astronomer William Campbell, had dropped out of Harvard Read more…