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On December 7, 1941, the Japanese Imperial Military bombed the American ships anchored in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The United States had been negotiating the fate of the Pacific Ocean with Japan, and they were requesting the end of sanctions against Japan.  Their attack was a declaration of war on the U.S. and the British Empire. President Franklin Roosevelt during his war address called December…

During World War II there was a phenomenon called ‘wandering wives’ and at one point there one and a quarter million women that fit that label, following the soldiers. The women followed boyfriends and husbands around to different bases as they were being trained to go overseas. There were no government programs for the women, they moved frequently in many cases as the men were moved with their…

Richard Feyman was recruited to the Manhattan Project in 1943, and in 1965 was co-awarded a Nobel peace prize. I came across him because of a letter on the internet he wrote to his dead wife in the 1940s. A romantic physicist. I have someone who likes poetry in my life, I was moved by it and wanted to know more. Richard Feynman was an American theoretical physicist, someone who was renown in one…

    Hello everyone and I found this story in a book that my son bought. Called a Race to the Bottom of Crazy. Dispatches from Arizona, and it’s written by a man named Richard Grant. It shares the journey of Arizona in the 21st century, which is the time I have lived here. We came to the Valley of the Sun in 2001.       The Book was copyrighted in 2024. The citation is at the bottom of the post,…

Aristotle short-changed us. Five senses? Cute, but primitive. Touch, taste, sight, sound, smell — that’s the Fisher-Price starter pack. Neuroscience in 2025 counts not five, not ten, but thirty-plus distinct sensory channels. Which means you are a walking cathedral of perception, a 34-instrument orchestra pretending it’s just a garage band. From Myth to Multiplicity The idea of “five senses”…

Mark McCandlish is an aerospace illustrator.  He has worked for many top aerospace corporations in the U.S. These include but are not limited to Boeing, McDonald-Douglas, and General Dynamic.   In 1988 McCandlish’s friend, Brad Sorenson was at an air show at Norton Airforce Base. He and other VIPs were led to a hangar that was occupied by three flying saucers hovering above the ground and the…

  I set out to write the story of what I could find about the real first Thanksgiving. I came across stories that were more like Charlie Brown’s Thanksgiving, to stories that made the pilgrims look like massacring demons.  I am starting to realize these days with so much information out there, to find “the truth” is difficult. It is like trying to find out who killed Kennedy. There are theories…

November 22, 1963 Lee Harvey Oswald was accused of the murder of President John F. Kennedy. He was shot 2 days later in custody by a Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby who had ties to the mob. It prevented Oswald from ever going to trial and keeps a myriad of details from ever coming to light.  While being interviewed he told reporters, “I did not shoot anyone, I am just a patsy.”  After he was…