The first volume of The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956, a history and memoir of life in a Soviet Union prison camp, written by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was first…
Year: 2014
Woodstock Music & Art Fair Music Festival Performers
Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969 Musicians: Richie Havens – 5:07pm – 7:00pm “The Minstrel from…
Paleolithic History
The popular conception of what constituted the Paleo diet of our ancestors from between 10,000 and 2.5 million years ago…
73rd Anniversary of Pearl Harbor
It was Dec. 7, 1941 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Eye Witness Account from 91 years old Aaron Chabin. The…
History of Lysergic-Acid-Diethylamide
There are numerous names on the street for lysergic-acid-diethylamide: acid, trips, cid, blotter, doses, dots and many others. It was in…
World’s Oldest Calculator
The Antikythera Mechanism, oldest known calculator, is even older than first thought. It was found in 1900 as part of a shipwreck…
Jonas Salk’s 100th Birthday
The History of Polio is forever and inextricably linked with Jonas Salk . Salk’s eagerly anticipated achievement of inoculation against the much feared polio virus was made public on…
Top Ten Deadliest Tornadoes in Oklahoma History
Rank City Date Scale Fatalities Injuries 1 Woodward 4/9/1947 F5 116 782 2 Snyder 5/10/1905 F5 97* 58* 3 Peggs…
Conditions of Hong Kong Reverting to Chinese Rule
Talks began in 1982 between Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping that would determine the future fate of Hong Kong. Prime…
World War I Facts
World War 1 began on July 28, 1914 and lasted until November 11, 1918. Differences in foreign policies were to…
