Dear Guests & Loyal Readers, Having grown up in Oklahoma City, I have a special connection to the date of April 19 in history, as far as it being domestic terrorism in my own home town. It was a very tragic day as we all know now. I remember the smoke coming up in a large black cloud as I drove past downtown Oklahoma City. I wondered “what has happened!?” I was soon to find out. From the Owner & Creator, Copyright © 2011 Research History, At The Helm, LLC.  

written by William D. Welge April 19th has special significance in the realm of history. Most recent was the horrible tragedy in Oklahoma City at the A.P. Murrah Federal Building where 168 American’s died at the hands of domestic terrorists! April 19 also signifies the opening of the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands to non Indians in 1892 marking the third land run into Indian Territory. For all the discussion as to the reasons why Tim McVeigh chose April 19th as the day to create chaos and carnage, the news media used his “hatred” towards the federal government because of the FBI’s involvement in Waco, Texas as few years earlier against…

Oklahoma City Tragedy; Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building Bombing Overview of the Oklahoma City Bombing By Jennifer Rosenberg, About.com Guide On April 19, 1993, the standoff between the FBI and the Branch Davidian cult (led by David Koresh) at the Davidian compound in Waco, Texas ended in a fiery tragedy. When the FBI tried to end the standoff by gassing the complex, the entire compound went up in fire, claiming the lives of 75 followers, including many young children. The death toll was high and many people blamed the U.S. government for the tragedy. One such person was Timothy McVeigh. McVeigh, angered by the Waco tragedy, decided to enact retribution to…

This copy is for your personal, noncommercial use only. You can order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers here or use the “Reprints” tool that appears next to any article. Visit www.nytreprints.com for samples and additional information. Order a reprint of this article now. NYTIMES   April 15, 2011 William N. Lipscomb Jr., Nobel Prize-Winning Chemist, Dies at 91 By GLENN RIFKIN William N. Lipscomb Jr., a Harvard chemistry professor who won a Nobel Prize in 1976 for his research on the structure of molecules and on chemical bonding, died on Thursday in Cambridge, Mass. He was 91. His death was announced by his son, James. Dr. Lipscomb was a…

The First Ride THE WAGNER PERSPECTIVE “…citizens paraded the streets with bands of music, fireworks were set off….the best feeling was manifested by everybody.” – New York times, April 14, 1860 on the success of the first Pony Express delivery. With only two months to make the Pony Express a reality, the team of William H. Russell, Alexander Majors and William B. Waddell had their hands full in January 1860. Over 100 stations, 400-500 horses and enough riders were needed – at an estimated cost of $70,000. But on April 3, 1860, the first official delivery began at the eastern terminus of the Pony Express in St. Joseph, Missouri. Amid…

5:12 AM – April 18, 1906 San Francisco City Hall after the 1906 Earthquake. (from Steinbrugge Collection of the UC Berkeley Earthquake Engineering Research Center) The California earthquake of April 18, 1906 ranks as one of the most significant earthquakes of all time. Today, its importance comes more from the wealth of scientific knowledge derived from it than from its sheer size. Rupturing the northernmost 296 miles (477 kilometers) of the San Andreas fault from northwest of San Juan Bautista to the triple junction at Cape Mendocino, the earthquake confounded contemporary geologists with its large, horizontal displacements and great rupture length. Indeed, the significance of the fault and recognition of its…

Science News (April 15, 2011) — Psychologists from The University of Auckland have just published two major studies on the diversity of the world’s languages in the journals Science and Nature. The first study, published in Science by Dr Quentin Atkinson, provides strong evidence for Africa as the birthplace of human language. An analysis of languages from around the world suggests that, like our genes, human speech originated — just once — in sub-Saharan Africa. Atkinson studied the phonemes, or the perceptually distinct units of sound that differentiate words, used in 504 human languages today and found that the number of phonemes is highest in Africa and decreases with increasing distance from Africa.…

The PC’s back story involves a little-known Texas connection Source: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9111341/Forgotten_PC_history_The_true_origins_of_the_personal_computer Lamont Wood August 8, 2008 (Computerworld) Blueprint of the Datapoint 2200 enclosure, showing the crowded interior. Click to view larger image This year marks an almost forgotten 40th anniversary: the conception of the device that ultimately became the PC. And no, it did not happen in California. For decades, histories have traced the PC’s x86 lineage back to 1972, with Intel Corp.‘s introduction of the 8008 chip, the 8-bit follow-on to the 4-bit 4004, itself introduced in 1971 and remembered as the world’s first microprocessor (download PDF). But the full story was not that simple. For one thing, the x86’s lineage can…