The One With Aldacron

A piece of history that had lain hidden for nearly 150 years was just uncovered at the Smithsonian Institution. In 1861, watchmaker Johnathon Dillon, while repairing Abraham Lincoln’s watch, left a note for posterity that, apparently, no one had seen since he scratched it into the inner workings of the watch. Dillon, working in a [...]

The news segment below is a neat find. Considering that I would have been 9 or 10 years old at the time, it wouldn’t have meant much to me had I seen it then. I do remember those modems. They were showing up on TV and in the movies all the time (WarGames being the [...]

History has always held a deep fascination for me. I have an interest in a broad swath of it, but I’m most fascinated by times long past, such as ancient civilizations (particularly Egypt, Greece and Rome) and the Dark and Middle Ages. I do enjoy modern history, just not with the same passion. But one [...]

When the Second Continental Congress first met on May 10, 1775, no one at the time could have predicted what would come of it. Two of the most important documents in American history were produced from that meeting of the minds — the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation. The former is, of [...]

In Wolf Blitzer’s recent one-on-one interview with the Decider, Wolf entered into a line of questioning about Iraq. I found it amusing how that particular segment progressed. Wolf quoted former Secretary of State James Baker, who in his memoirs (written in 1996) stated that he believed removing Saddam from power was a bad idea because [...]

I’ve become so disgusted with news of bombings, wars, murders, genocide, famine, and everything else that’s wrong with the world, that I no longer read newspapers and I spend much less time browsing online news sites than I did even two months ago. When I do hit the news sites, I tend to avoid most [...]

With the announcement that Bill Gates will be retiring in 2008 from his current position at Mircrosoft, PC World has posted several related articles. The one that grabbed my interest the most was one titled The Wit and Wisdom of Bill Gates. It’s a collection of Bill Gates quotes published in PC World over the [...]

If you’ve any interest in history you probably know of Gavin Menzies and his controversial 2003 book 1421: The Year the Chinese Discovered America. His theory has come under quite a bit of criticism from the ‘experts’. Now, he has new ammunition on his side. An 18th century copy of an early 15th century map [...]