HERACLITUS

        Heraclitus was a famous Greek philosopher.  He lived from 535-475 B.C.  He believed that the Universe was constantly changing, hence his quote:  “No man ever steps in the same river twice”.  He formulated the “unity of opposites” which is the belief that the Universe consists of paired opposites.  Heraclitus Read more…

CARRY A. NATION

She was born Carrie Amelia Moore on Nov. 25, 1846. Her father was a slave-holding plantation owner in Kentucky.  Her mother had mental problems, which may explain some of Carrie’s future actions. She got married at age 21 to an alcoholic doctor who had served in the Union Army. They Read more…

D.B. COOPER

                The D.B. Cooper case is the only unsolved hijacking case in American commercial aviation history.  The flight was from Portland to Seattle on Nov. 24, 1971 (Thanksgiving eve).  A nondescript male in his mid-40s passed a note to a stewardess.  The note read “I have a bomb in my Read more…

BLACKBEARD

The most famous pirate of the Golden Age of Piracy was born Edward Thach (more likely than Teach) in Bristol, Great Britain in 1680. He was a privateer (a legally sanctioned pirate encouraged to attack enemy shipping) during Queen Anne’s War. When the war ended he joined a pirate named Read more…

WHALE 1  ESSEX  0

                On August 12, 1819 the whaling ship Essex set sail from Nantucket, the whaling capital of America.  The voyage was supposed to last more than two years.  On board were 21 men and a rookie captain named George Pollard, Jr.  Two days into the voyage, a squall wrecked one Read more…

DRINKING THE FLAVOR-AID

This is the anniversary of the second worst mass civilian casualty event due to a deliberate act  in American History.  Here are some interesting facts. Jim Jones created the Peoples Temple in Indianapolis in 1956. Jones, a civil rights activist, envisioned his organization to be an integrated congregation that worked Read more…