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The Birth of the Bermuda Triangle

On December 5, 1945 at 4:00pm Eastern Time, a fragment of a radio transmission was heard from a training flight of fi...
Written by Alan Bellows • 05 Dec 2005 • Read →
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Color Photos From the World War I Era

Color film was non-existent in 1909 Russia, yet in that year a photographer named Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorski...
Written by Alan Bellows • 04 Dec 2005 • Read →
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History’s Youngest Mother

In 1939, a man from a small village in the Andes mountains carried his five-year-old daughter Lina into a hospital in...
Written by Alan Bellows • 03 Dec 2005 • Read →
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The Man Who Was a Dwarf and a Giant

Very few details are known about the life of Adam Rainer, but in a way, he represents an extraordinary piece of medic...
Written by Alan Bellows • 01 Dec 2005 • Read/Listen →
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The Gay-Detecting Fruit Machine

During the 1950s and 1960s, some otherwise freedom-loving governments waged secret wars against suspected homosexuals...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Nov 2005 • Read →
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The Boat Designed to Capsize

The US Navy has a nifty oceangoing research ship which performs a controlled capsize in order to perform scientific t...
Written by Alan Bellows • 28 Nov 2005 • Read →
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Atomic Annie and Her Nuclear Projectile

In 1953, the United States Department of Defense was conducting a series of nuclear weapons tests called Operation Up...
Written by Alan Bellows • 24 Nov 2005 • Read/Listen →
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The Whereabouts of Dr. Einstein’s Brain

Dr. Albert Einstein died on 18 April 1955 at Princeton Hospital in Trenton, New Jersey. In accordance with his wishes...
Written by Alan Bellows • 21 Nov 2005 • Read →
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How to Hypnotize a Chicken

Any farm-savvy secret agent can tell you that it's always a good idea to keep abreast of livestock-stupefying techniq...
Written by Alan Bellows • 20 Nov 2005 • Read →
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Superfluous Brain

It really happened. On 10 September 1945, Mike (who wasn't named "Mike" at the time) was going to be dinner. Such is...
Written by Jason Bellows • 13 Nov 2005 • Read →
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