Category: Greatest Hits • Page 8/10

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The Last Great Steam Car

When primitive automobiles first began to appear in the 1800s, their engines were based on steam power, the same powe...

Written by Alan Bellows • 24 Oct 2006 • Read →

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The Gravity Express

About four hundred years ago--sometime in the latter half of the 17th century--Isaac Newton received a letter from th...

Written by Alan Bellows • 15 Oct 2006 • Read →

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How Bacteria Nearly Destroyed All Life

About two and one-half billion years ago, life on Earth was still in its infancy. Complex organisms such as plants an...

Written by Alan Bellows • 08 Sep 2006 • Read →

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The Atomic Automobile

During the 1950s, much of the world was quivering with anticipation over the exciting prospects of nuclear power. Ato...

Written by Alan Bellows • 27 Aug 2006 • Read →

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The Ruins of Fordlândia

In the early 20th century, a cartel of Dutch and English rubber barons had a stranglehold on the vast majority of the...

Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Aug 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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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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Exhuming the Glacier Girl

In the early days of the Second World War, Allied forces began Operation Bolero, a daring and risky effort to bring A...

Written by Alan Bellows • 21 May 2006 • Read →

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This Place is Not a Place of Honor

If you look at it just right, the universal radiation warning symbol looks a bit like an angel. The circle in the mid...

Written by Alan Bellows • 17 May 2006 • Read →

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Mincemeat and the Imaginary Man

Early in the morning on the 1st of May 1943, a fisherman on a beach in Spain discovered a waterlogged corpse which ha...

Written by Alan Bellows • 09 May 2006 • Read →

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