Forgotten History
The US Senate Once Tried to Ban Dial Telephones From Capitol Hill
Today for most people who own cell phones, manual dialing is largely a thing of the past: your contacts are stored in ...
The World Trade Center Towers Originally Lacked Lightswitches
When the World Trade Center in New York City was first opened in 1973, employees didn't have to worry about turning off ...
Nixon Had a Speech Prepared In Case the Apollo 11 Astronauts Were Stranded in Space
When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, they made history. But one thing that ...
Kodak Invented the Technology That Later Forced Them Into Bankruptcy
US Patent number 4,131,919. Though it may not go down in history, it's sure to be one of the most important inventions ...
After Mein Kampf, Hitler Wrote a Second Unpublished Book
When Adolf Hitler died at his own hand in 1945 he left behind Mein Kampf, his ideology encapsulated in a two-volume, ...
I get (hate)mail
For the first time in a long time, I got two emails from readers. One was a very encouraging email from a reader who ...