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Eddie Chapman was a bad seed. He went AWOL in the British Army, was a safe-cracker for a crime gang, and was a blackmailer who would sleep with married, high-society women, then with an accomplice, blackmail them for money so he wouldn’t show pictures of their activities to their husbands. He ended up being a […]
Harry Houdini, one of the best showmen/magicians of his era, and probably one of the most known names in the world for his trade, was in the middle of a tour when something tragic would happen. Feeling tired and ill from what many now believe was appendicitis, he was resting after a show in his […]
Thomas Edison brought a lot of new things to light for us (pun intended), but the one the most can say shines through the most is inventing a working model of the incandescent light bulb. On this date, in 1879, after many attempts to come up with a working model that wouldn’t burn out too […]
It wasn’t rare for the United States to fly over Cuba to take aerial photos to watch over to make sure our closest neighbor was playing nice. What was rare was what was found in one of these fly-bys by one of the planes. It was shown that the USSR was setting up nuclear missiles […]
The United States had been in Democratic Power since the New Deal was put into effect. Communism was at its strongest point in history and the United States was in a war with Korea that was never going to end. We were lagging with the Soviets in space exploration and it seemed we were in […]
Some days, it’s hard to find a drink that goes along well with the history of that particular day. This would be one of those days. Whenever this happens, I like to dig into some old cocktail books to see what you may want to try that’s no longer a mainstay - something that you […]
Eddie Rickenbacker was an incredible human being. He stuffed in one lifetime what ten men could have split up and looked at as living life in an incredible way. This guy had a seventh grade education and accomplished so much in life. Who says perserverance doesn’t get you where you want to go? Having to […]
Since I couldn’t find anything to coincide with the history of the day today, I felt it would be a great time to introduce a drink that’s been a staple since the early 1900s. Ngiam Tong Boon, a bartender at the Long Bar in Raffles Hotel in Singapore came up with this drink sometime before […]
Today is John Glenn, Jr’s birthday. We all know him as the first astronaut to orbit the earth in space. Did you know that he also was the oldest person to ever be a crew member of the Space Shuttle, (October 1998)? And not let’s forget about his tenure as Senator, (in my home state […]
We’ve had a very hot and sticky summer so far here in the Midwest, with record breaking temperatures and unusually dry weather reeking havoc across the middle part of the United States. However, there was a day in Death Valley, California on this day, back in 1913 that was so hot that it actually melted […]
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