A Brief History On March 4, 1918, the USS Cyclops kept a date with destiny! Digging Deeper Cyclops, a US Navy coal carrier (collier) heading to Baltimore with a load of manganese ore. The Cyclops had left from Rio De Janeiro on February 16, 1918 and was supposed to arrive in Baltimore on March 13, 1918. Mysteriously, she disappeared without a trace in the Bermuda Triangle and nothing of her or her crew has ever been found. Chalk it up to the Bermuda Triangle? Or was she sunk by a U-Boat? Well, no U-Boat ever reported such a sinking and…
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A Brief History On March 3, 1991, the combination of George Holliday and his home video camera and selective use of portions of that video by the news media shocked the country and profoundly affected American History! Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find a drunken 26 year old and 2 buddies speeding through Los Angeles when police attempt to initiate a traffic stop. The convicted armed robber (on parole and not even allowed to consume alcohol) refused to stop and the chase was on! Zipping through the city at high speed is extremely dangerous, of course, to the public at…
A Brief History On March 2, 1949, The Old Lamplighter became a memory and a song, but not an occupation, as automatic street lights started to shine, adding to the list in our previous article, “Famous Inventions by Ohioans”! Today we discuss some of the milestones in the history of automotive and street lighting. Digging Deeper Digging deeper, we find on this day, the first automatic street lights went into operation in New Milford, Connecticut. Prior to this development, electric street lamps, not to be confused with traffic control lights, had to be turned on manually or by timer, regardless…
A Brief History Earlier today, you read about “Old Bacon Face” being acquitted. Well, here are the top 10 famous acquittals! Digging Deeper 10. John Hinckley (1981) The man who attempted an assassination of President Reagan was Obsessed with actress Jodie Foster. Hinckley tried to kill the president in order to get her attention. Although found not guilty by reason of insanity, he will probably be in psychiatric custody for life. This case spurred debate over the insanity defense. 9. Lorena Bobbit (1993) This woman cut her husband’s penis off, and then fled with the severed member, later throwing it…
A Brief History On Tuesday, March 1, 2016, voters in nearly a dozen U.S. states vote in their states’ Democratic and Republican primaries to choose their parties’ candidates for the next U.S. president to replace out-going President Barack Obama. Digging Deeper Unfortunately, those running this year have serious flaws that ultimately make voters’ decisions a classic case of choosing the lesser of…well, “evil”, may be too harsh a term and we do not seriously think the candidates are necessarily “evil”, but they do make feeling enthusiastic about any of them quite difficult. You may find these maps helpful for determining…