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Author: Alan Bellows • Page 11/34

Alan Bellows is the founder/designer/head writer/managing editor of Damn Interesting.
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Half Science and Hafnium Bombs

In the latter half of 1998, a small clutch of researchers and students at the University of Texas embarked upon a gro...
Written by Alan Bellows • 31 May 2007 • Read →
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The Birth Control of Yesteryear

Approximately 2,600 years ago-- around 630 BCE-- the Greek island of Thera was plagued by drought and overpopulation....
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 May 2007 • Read →
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Terror on Wall Street

On 16 September 1920, throngs of brokers, clerks, and office workers poured from the buildings lining New York City's...
Written by Alan Bellows • 14 May 2007 • Read →
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Bad Blood in Tuskegee

Early in the twentieth century, the medical community was practically helpless in its battle against syphilis. The c...
Written by Alan Bellows • 30 Apr 2007 • Read →
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Project Alpha and the Spoon Benders

In the late 1960s, a young Israeli man named Uri Geller gained a substantial amount of attention and fame following a...
Written by Alan Bellows • 16 Apr 2007 • Read →
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Damn Radio Activity

If you live in the Miami area and you own one of those fancy new AM radio receiver sets, you're in luck. I'll be doi...
Written by Alan Bellows • 13 Apr 2007 • Read →
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Submersible Aircraft Carriers

On 09 September 1942, at about 6:00am Pacific War Time, a lookout on the US Oregon coast spotted a single incoming ai...
Written by Alan Bellows • 09 Apr 2007 • Read →
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Spring Break, Damnit

The Dang Interesting writing staff is presently indulging in a much-needed holiday. We will return in one week-- on...
Written by Alan Bellows • 02 Apr 2007 • Read →
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The Fall of the Eastland

At a pier on the Chicago River on 24 July 1915, as the passenger steamer SS Eastland prepared to embark across lake M...
Written by Alan Bellows • 29 Mar 2007 • Read →
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The Farewell Dossier

In 1982, operatives from the USSR's Committee for State Security--known internationally as the KGB--celebrated the pr...
Written by Alan Bellows • 26 Mar 2007 • Read →
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