Jason Clarke as Ed White, Neil’s friend and neighbor, the first American to walk in space, who died during a pre-launch test for Apollo 1, which was to be the first crewed Apollo mission. The lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, Marion, Indiana, 1930. Hanging was one of the…
The Flight of the Phoenix (Aldrich & Blake, 1965; Aldrich et al., 2004; Dudley-Smith, 1964) is based on a real-life event from World War II in which a twin-engine cargo plane crashed in the desert. Mantz died on July 8, 1965 while working on the movie The Flight of the…
One question we get asked a lot is, how many people died during the Manhattan Project? Historian Alex Wellerstein has discovered a list of all the fatal accidents that occurred at Los Alamos in 1943 through September 1946. There were 24 deaths during this period. Yet in December 1945, the…
Name: Elmer Fudd. Age: 83. Appearance: Hunting gear, brown and red hat, double-barrelled shotgun. Permanently frustrated, frequently injured. Bryan came to prominence in the late 1930s as the voice of Egghead and Elmer Fudd at Warner Bros. Cartoons headed by Leon Schlesinger . Along with several characters, including Bugs Bunny,…
Dana Glass † was a recurring character in the show Family Reunion who was the principal of the all-grades school Maya Angelou. He used to be in the military. He died from a possible heart attack in the episode Remember when the glass passed? He was possibly around Moz’ age.…
Anglo-Zulu War, also known as Zulu War, decisive six-month war in 1879 in Southern Africa, resulting in British victory over the Zulus. The Zulu tribe didn’t just resist the British troops but defeated them in what was dubbed “the Battle Of Isandlwana”. This was the Battle of Isandlwana on January…
Thoth, who stands at the prow of the barque, with the head of an ibis, was married to Ma’at. She was the god of order and so inextricably opposed to the serpent ApepApepApep (also spelled Apepi or Aapep) or Apophis (/əˈpoʊfɪs/; Ancient Greek: Ἄποφις) was the ancient Egyptian deity who…
It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948. In one of the greatest election upsets in American history, incumbent President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic nominee, defeated Republican Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The 1948 United States presidential election was the 41st quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November…
Washington’s Farewell Address is a letter written by American President George Washington as a valedictory to “friends and fellow-citizens” after 20 years of public service to the United States. He wrote it near the end of his second term of presidency before retiring to his home at Mount Vernon in…
She spent the last 39 years of her life with her domestic partner, Edith Lewis, before being diagnosed with breast cancer and dying of a cerebral hemorrhage. She is buried alongside Lewis in a Jaffrey, New Hampshire, plot. Cather achieved recognition as a novelist of the frontier and pioneer experience.…