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It’s no secret that lumberjacks are some of the hardest working people on planet Earth.
Even today, with all the modern equipment at their disposal, the hearty souls who keep the world supplied with lumber have a very difficult, and extremely dangerous job.
Can you imagine what this profession must have been like back in the first half of the 20th century? [Read more…]
Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 thrust the United States into the middle of World War II, and right from the start the American forces faced a major problem.
Every code the American cryptographers devised was quickly broken the Japanese, resulting in numerous casualties that could have been avoided had the Americans had a secure method for communicating on the battlefield.
After a string of failed encryption methods were tried and discarded, the Americans finally found one that the Japanese were never able to break. [Read more…]
Regular readers of my blogs know how much I detest scammers, so it should come as no surprise that I love it when a scammer gets caught in the act.
The Internet has made scamming a lot easier and much safer for today’s scammers, resulting in the vast majority of scams being perpetrated online in recent years.
However, there are still plenty of phone scams being carried out as well. [Read more…]
I have always been fascinated by child prodigies, those rate and very special kids who know things and can do things as a child that most adults will ever know or be able to do.
Every one of these supremely gifted children possess amazing abilities that most of us can barely comprehend, let alone match.
The short video below features Friedrich Wendt, an incredible young boy who was born in Germany but now lives in Roanoke, Virginia. [Read more…]
Question from Jane: Last night on the news they reported that two small planes had crashed into each other as they were approaching our local airport.
One of the planes managed to land safely but the pilot of the other plane was violently ejected from his plane by the force of the crash.
He fell about 2,000 feet without his parachute ever opening. Sadly, he didn’t survive.
That got my husband to wondering if anyone has ever survived a fall from such great heights without using a parachute, and now I’m wondering the same thing.
Do you know if such a thing has ever happened? [Read more…]