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Extinction of the Passenger Pigeons

Passenger Pigeons (Ectopistes Migratorius) were once so numerous that by some estimates they outnumbered all the rest...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 28 Jun 2006 • Read →

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Bad Rye and the Salem Witches

In the late 1600s, the Puritan settlement of Salem in Massachusetts toppled into chaos when accusations of witchcraft...

Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Jun 2006 • Read →

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The Confederados

Immediately following the American Civil War, some Confederate southerners were unwilling to live under the rule of t...

Written by Greg Bjerg • 24 Jun 2006 • Read →

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The Winchester Mystery House

So far, life had been very good for Sarah Winchester. Born in the late 1830s in New Haven, Connecticut, she had been...

Written by Marisa Brook • 21 Jun 2006 • Read →

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The Most Boring Story Ever Told

In the 1960s, researchers in the Soviet Union began an ambitious drilling project whose goal was to penetrate the Ear...

Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Jun 2006 • Read →

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Guidestones into the Age of Reason

In northeast Georgia (USA), just off the Hartwell Highway there is was a monument situated on a small rise. It is ma...

Written by Jason Bellows • 18 Jun 2006 • Read →

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Can You Hear the View?

Cybernetic senses have been the subject of science fiction for decades. The idea of using sophisticated technology to...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 15 Jun 2006 • Read →

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Son of Krakatoa

Krakatoa may just be the most famous volcano of all time. More devastating than Mt. St. Helens, closer in time than V...

Written by Cynthia Wood • 08 Jun 2006 • Read →

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Spring Heeled Jack

Sometimes "Spring Heeled Jack" pops up in literature–sometimes as a villain, sometimes as a hero–perhaps even an earl...

Written by Jason Bellows • 29 May 2006 • Read →

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Project Babylon: Gerald Bull’s Downfall

Gerald Bull is a prime example of a man who created his own luck--unfortunately for him most of it was bad. A brillia...

Written by Anthony Kendall • 26 May 2006 • Read →

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