A Brief History On November 29, 2023, we celebrate National Package Protection Day, an annual event since 2016, founded by Ring.com, a company known for doorbell cameras. We have suggestions for how to enhance package security, and you are welcome to make your own suggestions. Digging Deeper Keep track of your delivery status and be home when the package is delivered or have a friend wait for it. Do not leave packages unattended on your porch for any amount of time past a few minutes. Get a video surveillance camera, either a doorbell type or other camera. If the video…
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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 28th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 28, 1893, the women of New Zealand became the first women in the world to vote in a national election. On November 28, 1895, the first American auto race took place, the Chicago Times-Herald Race, a 54 mile event with a grand prize of $5,000. On November 28, 1925, a one hour “barn dance” radio show began in Nashville, Tennessee…
A Brief History On November 28, 1967, British astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish discovered PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula, the first report of a Pulsar, a magnetized neutron star that emits “electromagnetic radiation out of its magnetic poles.” Digging Deeper Electromagnetic radiation, similar to radio waves, can only be detected on Earth when the beam is directly pointed at the observation point. As the incredibly dense neutron star rotates at a fast, although highly regular rate, the beams are predictable and easy to track once discovered. In fact, the beams are so regular that their frequency…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on November 27th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On November 27, 1095, Pope Urban II announced at the Council of Clermont (in Clermont, France) before a mixed council of clergy and lay people (landholding nobles) a call to arms that would become known as the First Crusade, a Catholic invasion of the Moslem world with the goal of “liberating” Jerusalem and the Holy Sites and putting them back in Christian…
A Brief History On November 27, 2020, Iranian nuclear scientist and purported head of the Iranian nuclear weapons program, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi, was assassinated in Absard, Iran. Incredibly, the murder was carried out in a manner worthy of a Hollywood movie plot, by use of a satellite controlled autonomous gun that had been pre-staged, allegedly by Israeli operatives. Digging Deeper The Israeli and US governments both stated that neither would allow Iran to develop or control a nuclear weapon. The US is believed to have been behind a hacking attack of Iranian nuclear lab computers in 2010, as part of…