A Brief History On July 25, 2016, the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is set to begin, culminating in the nomination of Hillary Clinton as the Democratic Nominee for President, the first major party female nominee for President in the history of the United States.  According to NBC News and The Daily Dot, this historic occasion is set to be marked by a “Fart In” protest by supporters of Bernie Sanders, the man Clinton beat for the nomination in a contentious primary and caucus process with charges leveled by Sanders that the DNC had sabotaged his run for the nomination in favor…

A Brief History In another horrible and senseless incident of an Islamic refugee invited into Germany to escape the horrors of his native land at the hands of other Muslims, a Syrian refugee blew up a suicide bomb in Ansbach, wounding at least 12 people.  The 27 year old Syrian refugee had been living in Germany for the last 2 years, although he had been denied asylum.  The bomber may have caused more death and injury had he been allowed entry to the music festival being held in the area.  Security teams later raided the bomber’s residence and a local refugee…

A Brief History The ‘Slot machine’ was a name formerly used for all automatic vending machines and gambling devices. You can play slots today in a little more of a modern setting over at 666Casino, they have numerous fruit machine games to play. It was in the 20th century that the term was restricted to gambling. There are other terms for slot machines. These include “fruit machine” which is a term popular in Britain and one-armed bandit. Digging Deeper The First Slot Machine: Liberty Bell from Charles Fey The Liberty Bell slot machine was first invented in 1895 by a car…

A Brief History On July 23, 1903, Ford Motor Company, the product of the Henry Ford’s engineering genius, sold their first automobile.  By the early 1920 perhaps half of all cars in the entire world were Ford, but somehow, something went wrong, and the market share of the once mightiest car company on Earth now ranks #5 (#2 in the US). Digging Deeper There has to be a reason for this decline, and here we list 5 of the worst Ford products that contributed to declining sales and reputation.  For each lousy car, we will name a great automotive product…

A Brief History On July 22, 1992, Drug Lord Pablo Escobar of Columbia escaped from his (luxury) prison.  Escobar, probably the richest criminal of all time, had a net wealth of around a staggering $30 billion. Digging Deeper This kind of money can certainly buy a criminal his own special brand of justice, and it was after negotiations with the government in 1991 that Escobar agreed to surrender in return for a light sentence and special prison accommodations.   While living in luxury in “prison” Escobar continued to run his criminal drug empire, which caused authorities to make the decision to…