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The Mad Gasser of Mattoon

On September 2, 1944, as the Second World War was in progress in Europe and the Pacific, some strange happenings were...

Written by Alan Bellows • 14 Dec 2005 • Read →

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Miniature Guide Horses for the Blind

By using selective breeding programs over many generations, horse breeds have been produced which are little more tha...

Written by Alan Bellows • 12 Dec 2005 • Read/Listen →

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Anomalous Pioneers

On 02 March 1973, the NASA probe Pioneer 10 was launched into space on the top of an Atlas/Centaur/TE364-4 launch veh...

Written by Jason Bellows • 12 Dec 2005 • Read →

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Nazi Propaganda Swing

Despite the fact that swing and big band music were forbidden as "degenerate" in 1930s Nazi Germany, Joseph Goebbels,...

Written by Alan Bellows • 11 Dec 2005 • Read →

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Jockey Tragically Killed Thursday, Wins the Title Friday

On May 8th, 1936, a horse jockey named Ralph Neves was riding in the third race of the day at Bay Meadows Racecourse...

Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Dec 2005 • Read →

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Evil and Destructive Apophis

Astronomers have been keeping their eyes on a 1,200 foot wide chunk of space rock that has been hanging around the ne...

Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Dec 2005 • Read →

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The Soldier Who Wouldn’t Quit

On December 17, 1944, the Japanese army sent a twenty-three year old soldier named Hiroo Onoda to the Philippines to...

Written by Alan Bellows • 07 Dec 2005 • Read →

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The Longest-Standing Math Problem

Ever had a puzzle that looked easy but tortured you incessantly until you found a solution? Would you work on it obse...

Written by Daniel Lew • 06 Dec 2005 • Read →

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The Christmas Truce of 1914

The Great War was joined in fervor. It had only been a few months, but by December 1914, soldiers of the Central Pow...

Written by Jason Bellows • 05 Dec 2005 • Read →

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The Birth of the Bermuda Triangle

On December 5, 1945 at 4:00pm Eastern Time, a fragment of a radio transmission was heard from a training flight of fi...

Written by Alan Bellows • 05 Dec 2005 • Read →

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