History

Assassinated with an Umbrella?: While watching Mythbusters (and registering speakers for Northern Voice) last night, I learned about how Bulgarian dissident Georgi Markov met his sad but unusual end. Accounts of the incident differ. Some say a ricin-laced pellet was either fired or injected…; Continue reading entry #3438

The Big Lake They Called Gitche Gumee: My friend Kennedy writes to inform me that today is the thirtieth anniversary of the sinking of the S. S. Edmund Fitzgerald. From the Wikipedia entry: SS Edmund Fitzgerald was a ship that sank suddenly on Lake Superior, November 10,…; Continue reading entry #3182

On Not Wearing a Poppy: Clay McLeod, a teacher in Kelowna, has written a wrong-minded editorial about why he doesn’t wear a poppy. Here are a couple choice bits: What would Gandhi have done in Poland or Germany if he were faced with the advance…; Continue reading entry #3178

Additional items in History: Milk Box from the Eighties?; 61 Years Ago Today; The Internet is So Weird Sometimes; They Shall Not Grow Old; A Memorial to Draft Dodgers?; The Book of War Letters; Man Keeps Archaeological Wonder Safe and Hidden for 50 Years; D-Day; Noah's Ark Spotted, Again; Genesis and the Origin of Cain's wife; The Refurbished Enola Gay; Gr�inne N� Mh�ille, Pirate Queen of Connaught