Did Morgan Robertson’s ‘Futility’ Predict the Titanic Disaster? In 1898, author Morgan Robertson published a novella called Futility (later republished as The Wreck of the Titan). Futility tells the tale of a purportedly unsinkable ocean liner – Titan – that hits an iceberg and sinks, killing most of its passengers. Futility seemed to have predicted the …
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Tsutomu ‘Lucky’ Yamaguchi: The Man Who Survived Both Atomic Bombs The Devastation Following the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Tsutomu ‘Lucky’ Yamaguchi was the man who survived both atomic bombs, first at Hiroshima and then at Nagasaki. He remains the only human being to have survived the detonation of two nuclear weapons. Yamaguchi lived in Nagasaki and …
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The Wretched Execution of George Spencer . . . and a Pig George Spencer was not an attractive man: he was described as bald, one-eyed and pig like. He was also a known to be a godless troublemaker and petty criminal. So, when the pious puritans of New Haven, Connecticut discovered that a local sow …
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John Adams And Thomas Jefferson Died On The Same Day – July 4th, 1826 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on 4th July, 1826. Both men were of great age, particularly for the time, so their deaths could not have been unexpected. Yet, for the second and third presidents of …
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The Curse of Tippecanoe (The 20 Year Presidential Curse) The Death of William Henry Harrison (1841) The Curse of Tippecanoe is the name given to a freakish pattern of presidential deaths. From William Henry Harrison to John F Kennedy, every president elected on a score year (a year divisible by twenty) died in office. Tippecanoe …
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Did George Washington Say, “I Cannot Tell a Lie”? It’s unlikely anyone ever heard George Washington say, “I cannot tell a lie”. If he did say it, he was lying. Ironically, disinformation was Washington’s superpower. Without his sophisticated intelligence gathering strategies and the seeding of disinformation, it’s very likely that the American Revolution would have failed …
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Was Bulletproof George Washington Protected by Unseen Forces? During his days as a soldier and general, Bulletproof George Washington looked near certain death in the face on many occasions and always emerged unscathed. This was most obvious at the battles of Monongahela and Princeton. In 1755, Washington fought with British and Colonial forces against French and Native …
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What A Temper! The Andrew Jackson Duels The seventh president the United States had a temper described as volcanic, and the Andrew Jackson duels have become the stuff of legend. By some estimates, Jackson participated in, or challenged men to, as many as one hundred duels. He is the only president know to have killed …
On the night of his assassination, the legislation that created the United States Secret Service lay on President Lincoln’s desk. You may be surprised to learn that the history between Abraham Lincoln and the Secret Service did not end there. It followed the slain president and his family in death. Abraham Lincoln – 16th President …
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July 5th, 1189: The Last Day of Time Immemorial The Oxford dictionary defines the term ‘time immemorial’ as: “a time in the past that was so long ago that people have no knowledge or memory of it”. [1] In England, prior to the 1st Statue of Westminster in 1275 [2], ‘time immemorial’ was interpreted by …
