A Brief History On November 2, 2007, Ozzy Osbourne, he of bat biting satanic rock fame, was highly irate over police using a party in North Dakota alleging to include the presence of the famous rocker to invite 500 wanted persons, resulting in 30 arrests. Digging Deeper Police issuing invitations to “parties” or some sort of “giveaway” to known wanted criminals to lure those folks into a trap have been a regular police tactic for many years now. Likewise, police use fake internet personas to lure pedophiles and sexual predators, which many have seen on the TV show “To Catch…
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A Brief History On November 1, 1918, the Austro-Hungarian battleship, SMS Viribus Unitis, was sunk in the harbor at the Pola Naval Base by two Italian commandos that penetrated the harbor via a manned torpedo and placed explosives on the big ship. Digging Deeper The Italians were captured and admitted their sabotage, but the ship’s captain disregarded the warning when the explosion was late and allowed his crew back on the ship which promptly blew up and sank. The ship had been turned over to the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs, and renamed the Jugoslavija the day before the…
A Brief History On October 31, 2011, a truly spooky fact became known when it was announced by the UN that the population of humans on the Earth had reached seven billion. When the author of this article was born, there were about 2.8 billion people on Earth, which seemed to be plenty! Digging Deeper Today, there are over eight billion humans running around our planet, depleting resources and polluting the air, land and water. Heck, why stop with just the Earth? We are also diminishing the ozone layer in the atmosphere and increasing greenhouse gases that create global warming…
A Brief History On October 29, 2014, the island nation of Sri Lanka experienced a fatal natural disaster known as the Badulla landslide. Monsoon rains loosened hillside soil which cascaded downhill on an incredible three kilometer path into the village of Koslanda, leaving at least 16 dead and hundreds missing, and about 150 homes destroyed. Digging Deeper Mudslides are an ever-present danger to people living on or below hills, and can be triggered by excessive rain, poorly engineered slopes, lack of adequate vegetation, heavy snow cover, earthquakes and tsunamis. Of course, mud has tormented people in many other ways, making…
A Brief History On October 28, 2006, former heavyweight champ, Trevor Berbick, was beaten to death with a metal pipe while in a church in Jamaica. Berbick lost his first defense of his boxing title to Mike Tyson, by TKO, but apparently his murderer hit even harder than Iron Mike! Digging Deeper Many boxers have come to a premature end, about 500 due to injuries from boxing, others for various reasons. We list a few of those notably unlucky pugilists: Champion Sugar Ray Robinson killed Jimmy Doyle in a welterweight title match in 1947, In 1933, Primo Carnera pummeled Ernie…