The myth of the Bermuda Triangle exploded after an incident on Dec. 5, 1945. On that day, a training flight took off from the naval station at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The 5 TBM Avengers torpedo bombers were led by Read more…
Sir Arthur Aston was a professional soldier who commanded mercenary forces in the Thirty Years’ War. In 1642, he was back in England and he joined the king’s forces in the English Civil War. Somewhere along the way he Read more…
He was born in 1800 in Connecticut to an abolitionist family. They moved to Ohio where his father allowed the home to be used by the Underground Railroad. John went to school to become a minister, but had to drop Read more…
On Dec. 1, 1887 the first Sherlock Holmes story appeared in print. Arthur Conan Doyle had been turned down by several publishers before he finally found someone to print it. He was 27 years old and wrote “A Study in Read more…
He was born two-months premature on November 30, 1835 as Samuel Langhorne Clemens. His home town was Florida, Missouri. His father was a self-educated lawyer who ran a general store. At age 4, the family moved to Hannibal, Mo. His Read more…
Recently I posted on the Battle of the Washita and posed the question “was it a battle or a massacre?” I think most would agree it was a battle, although one-sided and unfair. A similar question, but with a Read more…
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 Read more…
In 1868, Gen. Philip Sheridan was determined to end the Native American raids on American settlements on the Great Plains. He decided a winter campaign would catch the Indians hunkered down in their camps. He decided George Custer was Read more…
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 Read more…
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 Read more…