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After the accident, reports of sightings of Captain Bob Loft and Flight Engineer Don Repo, both killed in the crash, began, all seemed to be on aircraft that had installed used parts from flight 402, a common practice then with airlines, but no longer, what happened with flight 402 put an end to that practice. On one flight, a captain was asked to check on a passenger traveling in first class who was wearing a pilot's uniform. The senior flight attendant said he was dazed and unresponsive when spoken to and was not on the passenger list. The captain reportedly recognized him as being none other than Bob Loft. Flight engineer Don Repo is also said to have appeared onboard flights in a strange, supernatural manner.

On another day, Don was reportedly seen sitting in the cockpit, warning the operating flight crew of a faulty electrical circuit, which was then found and replaced. There were also reports of Bob having been seen doing his pre-flight checks of the aircraft and telling the ground staff he'd already completed them. The pilot was reportedly unnerved by what had happened and canceled the flight.

Although Eastern Air Lines denied any supernatural events, the parts salvaged from the wreckage of Flight 401 are understood to have been removed from the airline's fleet and actually buried, and then the sightings came to an end.

Don't believe in ghosts? I didn't either until my wife and I bought a haunted house and I got a visit from the elderly lady who'd lived there and died years ago. An experience I'll never forget.

In the 1930's, Hollywood studios, desperate to protect German business, let Nazis censor scripts, remove credits from Jews, get movies stopped and even forced an MGM executive to divorce his Jewish wife.

A man was seriously injured after being thrown 8 feet into the air by an angry bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Mike MacLeod, a professional photographer from Bozeman, Montana, said the incident happened at the Bridge Bay Campground, south of Fishing Bridge. MacLeod said the man was walking with his grandson when the agitated bison made them the targets of its aggression, caught up with the man and threw him 8 feet in the air.

Cane Swords are a type of concealable weapon. Designed to resemble a common walking stick, they secretly contain a blade inside, and were popular with gentlemen in the Old South. Often, the blade released by pressing a button near the handle, which detached the sheath and freed the handle and blade. Representative Al Green's cane may be harmless, but in the old South it would often contain a blade.

Browse through billions of web pages archived from 1996 to now. Without the Internet Archive, much of the history would have been lost. Easy to do, just copy the URL from the top of the page you want to save, go to https://archive.org/ and paste it in the "Save Now" space. Presto-chango, it is done.

Judicial Watch has obtained 64 pages of records from Utah Valley University through a Utah Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) request detailing the university efforts to immediately pave over the site where Charlie Kirk was murdered. An Emergency Payment Request Form was placed with the vendor on September 11, 2025, one day after Kirk was assassinated. The invoice amount was $6,090.52 and the product description is ''Clean up for shooting incident.'' The name of the vendor was redacted.

The Statue of Liberty was a joint effort between France and the United States, intended to commemorate the lasting friendship between the peoples of the two nations. The French sculptor Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi created the statue itself out of sheets of hammered copper, while Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, the man behind the famed Eiffel Tower, designed the statue's steel framework. The Statue of Liberty was then erected atop an American-designed pedestal on Liberty Island in New York Bay in 1886.

Modern geiger counters are about the size of a cell phone, but still maintain the rapid ''beep'' of the originals when they detect radiation. To be safe, I have bottles of iodine pills to protect the family from radiation thyroid damage. Why the concern? In 2023, our local plant had a small ''China Syndrome''problem.

Evangelists Kenneth and Gloria Copeland already had a Citation 500 Bravo and a Gulfstream II when they told followers that God wanted them to have matching Citation X jets to help spread the gospel.

To be clear, these aren't all necessarily lies that the modern Catholic Church is telling. Neither should anyone claim that all Catholics everywhere wholeheartedly believe in the claims of church officials. Plenty of faithful people throughout history have butted heads with church orthodoxy, from English translator William Tyndale to Saint Joan of Arc. And none of this should be taken as a statement of faith or disbelief — your religious leanings are up to you.

Your First Aid Kit should have this. AL Hemostatic Wound Spray is a fast-acting, chitosan-based bleeding control tool that complements—not replaces—tourniquets and hemostatic gauze, forming a mechanical barrier within about 30 seconds and working even in wet conditions to help buy critical time in trauma care.

I've been to ''Mosquito Bay'' in Puerto Rico, walking along the glowing shoreline at midnight. My friend Steve says he went swimming there. No wonder he still doesn't need a night light.

An article I put together in 2022 that I update regularly. Are you Prepared for natural disasters or medical emergencies? If you are like most people, the answer is most likely ''probably not''. If you found this article interesting, please let me know, sometimes I think I'm my own biggest fan.

The body no longer can cool itself because perspiration can't evaporate from skin into humid air. Continued sweating eventually leads to dehydration. As heat stress builds, heat exhaustion could eventually lead to heat stroke, as the body's temperature climbs above 103 degrees, requiring immediate medical attention. Everyone is susceptible to heat exhaustion or heat stroke, but the elderly, infants and children are particularly vulnerable.

Democratic Socialists believe capitalism is a system designed by the owning class to exploit the rest of us for their own profit. They must replace it with democratic socialism, a system where ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society. They believe there are many avenues that feed into the democratic road to socialism. Communism by another name is Communism.

It soars on six-foot wings, graces our currency and stares out from a thousand patriotic murals. But how much do you actually know about the bald eagle?

This book is Agatha Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery.

Young and college-educated voters in denser urban areas formed a core bloc for many candidates aligned with the socialist left, primary election data found. In recent months, several self-described democratic socialists and candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) won their primary races against centrist-leaning Democrats in cities on both coasts. Young voters in densely-populated and higher-income areas tended to support the more left-wing candidates.

Heat Waves Throughout History: From London's 'Great Stink' of 1858, to a sweltering stint during the Great Depression, take a look back at some of the deadliest heat waves in history.

After making opposition to voter ID requirements a plank of the Democratic Party platform, the Obama Presidential Library must be evil racists, massive hypocrites, or maybe even both. This imposing, grey structure cost $850 million for what looks more akin to a massive trash bin than a library.Visitors checking the website were met with an interesting bit of information: you must show a valid photo ID to enter. Treating Black folks just like the White folks? Sounds pretty racist to me.

President Trump: ''Communism is the biggest threat to our country, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, September 11''. ''It's a bigger threat, potentially a bigger threat than that, because it's a cancer that spreads, and you better stop it fast.'' Only 42% of Democrats viewed capitalism favorably, while 66% had a positive view of socialism. The poll found that Democrats have warmed slightly on socialism since 2010, with Democrats under age 50 much less likely to view capitalism favorably.

''The SR-71 would be part of the static display but roped off so that people could not touch the aircraft. We were advised that the Russians were coming. No sensors were left on the aircraft, all fuel had been removed, and the plane was heat-soaked to an ambient temperature to prevent infrared cameras from discovering the aircraft's secrets. Sure enough, the Russians showed up. They took numerous regular and infrared photos. They even had hidden microscopes.''

As soon as Americans had vehicles, they were trying to live out of them. Even before the novelty of the Model T had worn off, we were already camping out of our cars, building trailers for them, and modifying those initial vehicles into what would become the first-ever motorhomes. It sounds pretty idyllic, maybe too much so. Because the true evolution of the American RV has been shaped by some of the country's most difficult times. We look back at how we became a nation that travels and lives on wheels.

Did you know? The majority of goods sold on Amazon are not sold by Amazon itself, but by more than 2 million merchants who use the company’s platform as their storefront and infrastructure.

''Four months before tough midterm elections, President Trump used the backdrop of Mount Rushmore one night before the nation's 250th birthday to characterize his political opponents as ''godless,'' ''evil'' communists.'' We can only lose the midterms if we allow ourselves to lose the midterms, if we are foolish stupid and unwise,'' he said on Friday, demanding that Congress pass his so-called SAVE America Act, which would impose stricter voter ID rules that would make it harder to vote.''

In 1935, a captive tiger shark vomited a human arm in front of a crowd of spectators. What followed was one of the strangest criminal investigations in history.

A new national survey from the Cato Institute, conducted in collaboration with Morning Consult of 2,253 Americans ahead of July 4th and America’s 250th anniversary, finds nearly half (46%) of Americans don’t know what America’s 250th anniversary commemorates.

The ''Wild West'' that America fell in love with didn't exist. It was invented by Buffalo Bill — who himself was a character invented by the eccentric William F. Cody.

A Hidden Chamber, an Unfinished Dream, and the Mystique of Mount Rushmore The world-famous American icon—which almost wasn’t built—will likely endure for millennia. It’s a major focal point for America’s 250th birthday this year.

Clyde ''The Buffalo'' will be the biggest celebrity in Cody for America's 250th. The world-famous bison was invited to participate in the Cody Stampede Rodeo and Parades on July 3 and 4. When the famous bison arrived in town, his first stop was the historic Irma Hotel, where he was invited into the bar for a drink. ''He likes bourbon and margaritas,'' Clyde's owner, Clint Mortenson, said. ''He drinks what I drink.''

When France surrendered to Germany in June 1940, the British feared its powerful fleet would be used against them. Churchill’s solution was severe. After days of negotiation with the French navy without success, asking them to join England against the Germans, or sailing to a far-away French possession, or even Canada, the British attacked, destroying the fleet and killing 1,300 French sailors.

On July 3, 1863, fifteen thousand Confederates marched toward the center of the Union-held lines atop Cemetery Ridge on day three of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Medora, North Dakota is home to ''The Medora Musical'', Theodore Roosevelt National Park, and his Presidential Museum.

Leave it to political cartoon artists to come up with some great artwork to help celebrate ''Canada Day''.

From the smoking lounge to first-class bedrooms, explore the ship like you've never seen it before.

So why do we celebrate July 4 instead of July 2, much to John Adams’s chagrin? Well, the Declaration of Independence, as originally drafted by Thomas Jefferson and the other members of the committee of five. Some sections were removed or edited, including, unfortunately, a condemnation of slavery. The final draft was adopted on July 4, which is why we celebrate that as Independence Day.

A vigilante has been nicknamed Mexico's ''Batman'' after hunting down bike thieves and taping them to lamp posts. Police in the western state of Jalisco are searching for a suspect after at least five men were bound to poles with ''rater'', Spanish for ''thief'', written on their foreheads. Some also had cat whiskers and moustaches drawn on their faces, while others had their mouths taped shut.

Voter fraud ''never happens,'' something you hear from politicians who do it all the time. This alleged behavior seems to emerge from blue states. In the newest instance, it concerns Long Island, New York. According to the report, Hempstead Union Free School District Clerk April Keys allegedly smuggled ballots for the board of education out of her office and gave them to an incumbent in the race.

From the article: ''On short notice, we took off in SR-71 #979 and headed for Griffiss Air Force Base with one in-flight refueling over Nevada as we headed east at Mach 3 at 80,000 feet. Our route took us south of Chicago and north of Indianapolis. ''There was an office that handled sonic boom complaints on a full-time basis. The office received boom complaints from everyone and anyone farmers claimed that their cows would not give milk anymore, chickens wouldn't lay eggs.''

The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3, 1863, in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of casualties of the entire war and is often described as the war's turning point.

President Donald Trump has unveiled a new rendering of a special commemorative US passport bearing his likeness, debuting a limited-edition passport to mark America's 250th anniversary this year. The U.S.A.'s New Passport, which says, 'Welcome, but be good!' features President Trump's image looming over the Resolute Desk, the text of the original Declaration of Independence in the background and his signature on the bottom.

Antipodes: Any two places or regions that are on diametrically opposite sides of the earth. Once commonly used in the UK to refer to Australia and New Zealand .

A Chinese technology company has unveiled a self-driving smart toilet that will follow you around the house. Designed to improve accessibility for people with limited mobility, the autonomous toilet - known as Xiaoban - was recently showcased at an exhibition in Shanghai focused on elderly care, assistive technology and rehabilitation medicine.

The Canadian passport has potentially earned the unexpected distinction of being the coolest passport to pull out at a rave. The pages of the new passport (released in mid-2013) are covered in fun and colorful UV-reactive hidden images that can only be seen under a blacklight.

To mark the occasion of Mel Brooks' centennial, the American Film Institute named 1974's ''Blazing Saddles'' the funniest film of all time. And, it was, and a movie that couldn't be made today in our 'oh so proper and easily offended society'.

On June 25, 1876, Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer led over 200 men of the Seventh Cavalry Regiment and Indian scouts into the Little Bighorn valley in south-central Montana. Awaiting him were an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Dakota camped along the Little Bighorn River. The Native Americans called this area ''The Valley of the Greasy Grass.''

Custer’s posthumous reputation would rise and fall over the decades, especially as historians replaced dime novel hacks in telling his story. Close to 70 movies, from the silent era onward, have also offered their own takes on the Custer legend.

First Nations people from the U.S. and Canada brought their horses, drums and community flags to bear in 2026 in Montana to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn, one of the most famous events in U.S. history. Allied tribes came together on June 25, 1876 near the banks of the Little Bighorn River in present-day Montana to hand the U.S. Army a rare defeat as they fought to preserve their way of life. Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and more than 200 of his troops were killed.

One older Western film, a classic, is now being recognized as the best Western movie of all time. The film is 1967’s Will Penny, which the movie experts at IMDb have ranked on their list of the greatest Western movies to ever be released.

Along the quiet coast of South Carolina, a ghost is said to walk. He doesn't haunt with menace. He doesn't rattle chains or shriek in the night. He just appears, still, silent, and dressed in gray. They call him the Gray Man of Pawleys Island, and locals know that when he shows up, trouble isn't far behind. For more than two centuries, he's been seen just before hurricanes strike. And, people who see him often survive with their homes untouched, even when everything around them is flattened.

The Wagon Box Fight was the Army's first chance to claim victory after the 1866 Fetterman disaster, where Indian warriors equipped with modern lever-action Henry and Winchester rifles, killed 81 army troopers equipped with old single-shot Springfield rifles. But now soldiers were armed with the new Springfield breech-loading rifles, capable of firing several more rounds per minute.

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The soldiers under Reno and Benteen continued to be attacked and 47 of them were killed before they were rescued by the arrival of General Alfred Terry and his army the next day. General Cook had told Custer to wait until Terry and his one thousand soldiers arrived before engaging the Indians, but Custer being Custer fatefully decided to ignore that order.

A website that is no longer on the web, but saved by "the Wayback Machine". Unfortunately, the photos and other graphics have disappeared into the ether, but the text remains, telling the story of what happened after the battle.

The look today from Last Stand Hill at Little Bighorn Battlefield.

The dramatic call of a loon. A crisp summer night with the northern lights shimmering overhead. A rainbow over a lake at sunset. Conversations around a roaring fire. That’s camping in Minnesota, whether you drive right up to your favorite site or carry everything in on a canoe or backpack.

''General Custer Attacks Their Camp, Himself and Seventeen Officers Killed, Together with Three Hundred and Fifteen Soldiers.'' Those were published at the top of the front pages on July 7, 1876. Weekly papers in those days, in an era when news still traveled slowly and readers were patient in learning of it, they published the account of Custer's historic final battle nearly two weeks after the event took place.

There were six of them, warriors of the Crow or Absarokee nation, who rode with Custer on his last march down the Little Big Horn River in Montana that day in June, 1876. When the leader of the Seventh cavalry asked General Terry for his best Crow scouts, Terry told him he could have Curley, ''White Man Runs Him,'' Hairy Moccasin, ''Goes Ahead,'' Yellow Face and White Swan. The Crows were glad to serve with Custer and they guided him to locate the hostile camp on the Little Bighorn.

Human bones, bits of leather, shreds of uniforms and spent gun cartridges by the thousands. These were the clues of a mystery dating back to 1876, to a grassy Montana hillside where more than 200 sweaty and dust-covered troopers under Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer were wiped out - to a man - by about 4,000, or more, Indians with modern repeating rifles and battle experience.

June 25th is the anniversary of one of the worst management decisions of all time. On that day in 1876, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer made a decision to engage an overwhelmingly superior force of more than 2,000 Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho warriors with only 210 members of the 7th U.S. Cavalry along the Little Bighorn River. Giving your life is the ultimate price for a bad decision, but Custer's decision-making was especially poor in so many ways.

On June 22, 1876, Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer confidently led his 7th Cavalry, several officers’ wives and assorted hangers-on out of Fort Abraham Lincoln near present-day Bismarck, North Dakota. With him was the regimental band, a sixteen-piece brass band mounted on matching white horses and led by Chief Musician Felix Vinatieri. They played “Boots and Saddles”, and the cheerful tune of ''Garry Owen'', which would forever after be associated with the ill-fated 7th Cavalry and its demise.

On June 24, 1950, Northwest Flight 2501 disappeared over Lake Michigan and was never found. The US coast guard found the aircraft log book floating in the water, and fragments and body parts were found in the area but they could not find the aircraft wreckage.

A visit to the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana can provide greater understanding of Custer's Last Stand, and the motivations of the combatants.

263 men of the 7th Cavalry engaged an overwhelming number of Lakota and Cheyenne, in one of the Indian's last armed efforts to preserve their way of life.

At its core, sleep tourism is about traveling to places specifically designed to help you get better sleep. Basically, it's a vacation for your body and mind, where the itinerary revolves around rest and relaxation instead of nonstop sightseeing. Instead of returning from your trip feeling like you need a vacation from your vacation, you come back genuinely refreshed. Whether it's checking into a luxury hotel or escaping to a serene retreat, sleep tourism is changing how we think about travel.

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Voyager 1 launched in September 1977 and has been coasting ever since. It has no engine running. Its speed of roughly 11 miles a second, about 38,000 miles an hour, is momentum it gathered from the planets it swung past, and it has held that pace since its last encounter, with Saturn, in 1980. It now sits about 170 times farther from the Sun than Earth is. In 2012 it crossed the heliopause, becoming the first spacecraft to operate between the stars.

A summer travel industry forecast says interest in national parks and other outdoor hot spots has spiked 65 percent over last year, last month was Yellowstone National Park's busiest May on record. Despite major staffing cuts and a 43-day partial government shutdown, more than 323 million people visited national parks last year. To accommodate the crowds, parks pulled workers from other duties to focus on visitor services.

The horrors of World War II have been depicted on screen by many incredibly talented filmmakers who’ve made stunning works about the global conflict. Recently, an uncompromising film that can be streamed for free was chosen as the greatest of them all when it was ranked as the ''best World War II movie'' ever made.

From 2014: My son Tom, a professor at Princeton University, with his new daughter Audrey, and a link to those things that make being a father worth it. Audrey is now a teenager and the oldest of Tom's three daughters.

The pancreas is a gland located behind the stomach that plays a crucial role in digestion and blood sugar regulation. It produces digestive enzymes and hormones like insulin and glucagon to manage blood sugar levels. It is also a gland that can be hit with one of the most fatal cancers. Both my dad and grandmother died of it.

If you've ever walked the National Mall on a hot summer day, the long stretch of water in front of the Lincoln Memorial can look inviting. With the Washington Monument perfectly mirrored on its surface, it almost seems like the ideal place to cool off. So can you swim in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? The short answer is no. Swimming, wading and even dipping your feet are all prohibited. But, a lot of people have done it over the years and never got caught.

A Florida man has died after he contracted a rare but often deadly infection after he used tap water to rinse out his sinuses, spurring public health concerns about the safety of drinking water. Naegleria Fowleri is a microscopic single-celled living amoeba. Infection is RARE and can only happen when water contaminated with amoebae enters the body through the nose. You CANNOT be infected by drinking tap water. Use DISTILLED water when rinsing your sinuses.

The American Psychological Association, published a study that suggests that modern day father can contribute to his children’s health and well-being by maintaining a healthy relationship with the other parent even in cases of divorce; providing emotional and financial support, appropriate monitoring and discipline; and most importantly by remaining a permanent and loving presence in their lives.

Ranch dressing is a uniquely American condiment, having been invented in Nebraska and perfected in California in the 1950s. The mix of buttermilk, mayonnaise, herbs and spices has since become not only America's favorite salad dressing, but a popular flavor internationally. You'll find ranch in supermarkets where there is a heavy American cultural influence, like Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia, but it is rare or entirely unheard of in other parts of the world.

Republicans proposed a simple immigration reform after millions of World Cup visitors arrived in the United States, enjoyed the country, praised the food, discovered ranch dressing, and immediately treated it like a miracle condiment sent down from Mount Rushmore, sources have confirmed. The proposal is straightforward: international visitors who love America, respect the country, and believe ranch belongs on everything may stay, while Americans who say how terrible the United States is may go.

According to the author, American supporters of socialism don't understand what socialism is.

Outgoing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released a trove of documents on her last day on the job, that she said proved Dr. Anthony Fauci suppressed the COVID lab leak theory and later lied to Congress about it, something millions of Americans suspected all along. Tulsi said that Fauci provided millions in U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

The author of the cookbook ''Watermelon and Red Birds'' selects dishes for Juneteenth, June 19, the holiday that remembers the day when enslaved Africans in Texas learned that they were free, two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation. She forgot to include fried chicken. What?

The Battle of Little Bighorn, also known as Custer's Last Stand, remains one of the most dramatic and controversial events in American history. This pivotal clash between the combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes against the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army has inspired numerous films that capture its intensity and significance.

American airports are crumbling, staff are scarce and airlines are slashing service levels. Mark Ellwood, who has flown in and out of the United States for 30 years, explains why it has become so bad.

A billion years is the rough estimate for how long the physical disc should survive in the near-vacuum of interstellar space, where there is little to erode it. The uranium clock is a separate matter. With a half-life of about 4.51 billion years, the sample remains readable as a clock for far longer than the disc is expected to last, and in principle for several billion years. The limit on dating the record is not the uranium running out. It is the disc itself wearing away.

There is a website out there with a trove of legitimately awesome movies available to stream 24/7, and entirely for free, if you don't mind sitting through commercials. It is called ''YouTube'', the site known primarily as the go-to repository for cat videos and instructions for fixing your toilet is hiding an impressive catalogue of classic public domain cinema of the sort many other streamers don't bother with.

A mini rant on the stupid things that people thank God for. CAUTION: May be offensive to some people.

Gene Shalit, the Muppet look-alike who reviewed movies and other cultural arts with a whimsical bent and a shtick for puns as the resident wit on NBC’s ''Today'' show for four decades, one of the longest tenures on an American television program, has died at age 100.

The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver is a single-engined high-wing propeller-driven short takeoff and landing (STOL) aircraft developed and manufactured by de Havilland Canada. It has been primarily operated as a bush plane and has been used for a wide variety of utility roles, such as cargo and passenger hauling, aerial application (crop dusting and aerial topdressing), and civil aviation duties.

Unless you catch it yourself and cook or freeze it, you'll probably be buying your fish. Frozen food gets a bad rap, but when it comes to seafood, you're often better off buying frozen instead of fresh. When it's frozen properly, you can preserve much of the flavor, texture and nutritional value for a long time while also reducing food waste. In some species, freezing also plays an important food-safety role by helping reduce the risk of parasites.

The issue is that athletes are not heroes just because of their job. Day to day they do not do sacrifice or put their lives on the line. They work hard at their sport, but they do it because they love it. The professional athletes, in reality, just go out on the field and play their sport. They hit a ball in tennis. Catch, tackle, and throw in football. Dribbles, pass and shoot in basketball. Their profession alone doesn’t exemplify heroism.

Obama officials insisted everything is fine, noting the missing safety net is currently being funded through hope, change, and the same accounting method used to explain Obamacare savings. Chicago leaders praised the project as a historic achievement in Democratic economics: hire contractors, promise safeguards, delay payment, and call the bailout ''community investment.''

For Facial Recognition to work, the camera must have a clear image of the subject's eyes before mapping out the face. In an episode of ''The Black List'', fugitive Raymond Reddington was able to get through airport security by wearing a special pair of glasses that made a clear image of his eyes impossible to see.

The making of motion pictures in Monument Valley began with John Wayne's ''Stagecoach'' in 1939.

Statistics show that almost 90% of people are right-handed. Hand dominance has its own unique features regarding brain functioning and cognitive processes. Handedness differences involve enhanced activity in one of the brain hemispheres. People who are left-handed often have improved creative and visual abilities. Right-handed people are characterized by better analytical and logical thinking. Both groups have their own characteristics in speech and cognitive functions.

After confessing his errors to the Church, Galileo Galilei was allowed to return to his villa at Arcetri near Florence, where he spent the remainder of his life under house arrest.

Since January 2026, major U.S. airlines and airports have implemented at least seven significant policy and system changes, none of which were publicly announced. These changes were subtly integrated into terms updates and internal directives rather than through press releases or direct notifications. The video aims to inform viewers about these alterations before their next trip, highlighting that some changes may be surprising.

Flight 847 was hijacked by members of Hezbollah and Islamic Jihad after taking off from Cairo.

Bringing a carry-on has long been a staple of modern air travel, but that could soon change. In 2025, American Airlines is making a major update to its baggage policy, one that could significantly alter what passengers are allowed to bring on board.

In June, military forces were sent by the President to battle Islamic extremists, but they were sent without any declaration of war. Was this an illegal act? The short answer is NO. Our Constitution included provisions for actions the President could take without a declaration of war. That action listed above was what President Thomas Jefferson did in the year 1801, over two hundred years ago, because of murders, kidnappings, and seizures of ships by the Barbary Pirates.

It was supposed to be a routine exercise. Perhaps an odd phrase to use when describing the handling of nuclear weapons, but during the Vietnam War, it was standard procedure to regularly load and offload 2,100-pound nuclear bombs onto attack aircraft aboard the USS Ticonderoga. If detonated, those bombs would explode with a force between 70 kilotons and 1 megaton. Something so dangerous and powerful should have been impossible to lose sight of—but in an instant, one of those bombs vanished.

For a long time, scientists have believed that babies’ brains were not developed enough to form memories. But researchers in a new study have discovered that little ones as young as one year old can create memories.

It isn't sharks you need to worry about.

Lesley Stahl has seen a lot of horrible things over the course of her career at 60 Minutes, but none of it can compare to the horror she experienced watching her fellow journalists lose their jobs for being obnoxious. ''Oh God, this was awful,'' Stahl said when asked about the half dozen veteran producers and personalities who were fired along with Scott Pelley, the veteran newsreader dismissed for insubordination. ''This was by far the worst experience I've been involved in, or even witnessed.''

Jeffrey Epstein, an American pedophile, financier, and philanthropist had a huge network of rich and powerful acquaintances. Some of these were listed in a contact book found in his New York house when raided by the police. Those individuals named in his book are trying everything to keep the information from the public. Many high-level individuals, including two U.S. presidents do not this information to come out, with good reason.

Governor Tim Walz and friends. On the 1300 block of North Eustis Street in St. Paul, Minnesota, a ten-minute drive from the Governor’s Mansion, sits a brutalist brick building that houses a secret Chinese Communist Party (CCP) front operation that serves several functions for the CCP, none of them good for the United States.

In a first, NASA's experimental X-59 plane flew faster than the speed of sound, setting the stage for 'quiet' supersonic aircraft. The United States banned supersonic flights over its land in 1973 due to their ear-splitting sonic booms. Experts are building a plane that should travel at those speeds but create only gentle thumps.

Cartoonist Stephen Beals explores the small, often amusing moments that retail workers experience on a daily basis. From customer interactions to the relationships between coworkers, his comics feel simple, honest, and consistently entertaining.

Adolf Hitler’s inner circle were the most powerful leaders in the Nazi Party. It was a finely balanced team of military commanders, administrative leaders and Ministers of the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

Back in the 1980s when the McDonald’s Quarter Pounder was the burger to beat, A&W had the great idea to debut a 1/3 Pound Burger at the same price as a Quarter Pounder. More meat for your dollar—what could go wrong?

Between the orbital module and the descent capsule where the cosmonauts sat was a pressure equalization valve-a small mechanism designed to let outside air into the capsule once it had landed safely back on Earth. But when the explosive bolts separating the descent capsule from the service module fired simultaneously instead of sequentially, the resulting jolt loosened a seal inside the valve, causing it to open while the capsule was still in the void of space.

$Instead of taking years and hundreds of millions of dollars, Donald Trump restored the Reflecting Pool to better than the original 1923 condition for a fraction of the cost and time, upsetting Washington insiders and those with TDS. A Black woman viewing the pool for the first time after it was filled, said "It is so beautiful, but I still hate it". Donald Trump could cure cancer and there are people who would be upset.$

When Howard Carter's team cracked open Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922, the inventory included alabaster jars holding a thick, amber residue that chemists later identified as honey - and the same substance, recovered from sealed pots in tombs across the Nile Valley, has reportedly been tasted by archaeologists who reportedly pronounced it still sweet. The jars were closed sometime around 1323 BCE. And the contents, by every available chemical measure, was still honey.

Myth #6: Fill your bathtubs with water for drinking. That will be fine for flushing the toilet, but you need to go out and buy a few cases of bottled drinking water.

Doctors are conducting landmark research on the brains of deceased former NFL players. In 2010, they presented convincing pathological evidence that ''repetitive head trauma experienced in collision sports'' may be associated with the development of motor-neuron disease. In other words, repetitive head trauma, or chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) may result in a syndrome that mimics ALS. Lou Gehrig may have actually died of CTE.

Human war machines don't tend to fare well in encounters with Godzilla, who debuted on the silver screen in 1954. However, in ''Godzilla Minus One'', a hit with U.S. audiences after its release on Netflix the notorious kaiju finally meets his match in the form of a bizarre-looking fighter plane called the J7W1 Shinden. ''Godzilla Minus One'' is pretty good, a Japanese film with English dubbing, with some great flying scenes of the Shinden attacking and killing Godzilla.

On June 8, 1967, the USS Liberty (AGTR-5), an American spy ship the Israelis repeatedly strafed, napalmed, and torpedoed during a ferocious hour-long assault that The Washington Post woiuld later describe as ''one of the most bloody and bizarre peacetime encounters in U.S. naval history''. Why did they do it? Was it a mistake?

President Trump abruptly ended a tense ''Meet the Pres'' interview with host Kristen Welker after she repeatedly challenged his claims about election fraud, California's vote count and his proposed ''anti-weaponization'' fund. Trump cut off the interview after accusing NBC, ABC, CBS and CNN of being ''crooked'' during an exchange over U.S. elections. ''You're a one-sided crooked network,'' Trump told Welker. ''Let's call it quits because I've had enough. Thank you, darling. Have a good time.''

Before the war, Oradour-sur-Glane was a quiet, rural community in central France. In 1944, the village was left in ruins after German Waffen-SS troops massacred 642 men, women, and children before burning the village to the ground. Today, tourists can visit the old town of Oradour where crumbling walls, cars, and other household items have been left untouched since the war. The ruins of this village serve as a reminder of Nazi atrocities suffered by not only the French but also other civilian populations.

The United States Marine Corps has one of the most unique career paths in the world for fighter pilots. The specialized role of aviation units in the USMC translates to a flying experience unlike any other uniformed service in the US or abroad. The entire service, regardless of job specialty, follows the same doctrine, focused on function as a highly mobile, amphibious infantry force. And, it pays pretty well.

The moment Saddam's hooded executioner pulled the lever on the trap-door, Washington's secrets were safe.

Americans may be reaching a tipping point with tipping screens. A recent survey found that 78% of consumers believe tipping practices ''have become ridiculous,'' while nearly three-quarters of people say they've noticed restaurants raising the suggested gratuity amounts displayed on digital payment screens. When faced with those prompts, 59% of those surveyed said they feel compelled to leave a tip, but many find the prompting offensive.

The Civil War Battle of Shiloh claimed 23,746 lives in April, 1862. At battle's end, 16,420 soldiers lay wounded, unable to move. When physicians reached the scene, they were taken aback by eerie bluish lights glowing in the darkness. They soon realized that the odd radiance was coming directly from the soldiers' gaping wounds. Even more strangely, the soldiers who had these eerily glowing wounds wound up having more of a fighting chance at survival than those with ordinary wounds did.

In the first major British retrospective of his paintings for over 65 years, the museum's curators have cast Winston Churchill as no mere hobby painter, but as both an artist worthy of serious consideration and a leader whose vulnerabilities are visible on the canvas. ''This show is about assessing him as a painter, which has not really been done before'' Xavier Bray, the Wallace Collection's director, said. ''It also shows that leaders are not untouchable,'' he added. ''They have their own fragility.''

Time Magazine compiled a list of 100 unique destinations, from the idyllic Portuguese town of Arouca, now home to the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridge, to the continent of Antarctica.

''The eyes of the world are upon you … The hopes and prayers of liberty loving people everywhere march with you. Your task will not be an easy one … Your enemy is well trained, well equipped and battle hardened, he will fight savagely … I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory!''

The official crowdfunded documentary — and a cutting look at the strange connections between Gov. Tim Walz—aka "Minnesota Mao"—and Chairman Mao Zedong, the former dictator of the Chinese Communist Party.

Jill Biden's stunning admission that she thought her embattled husband was having a stroke on the debate stage in June 2024 stood in stark contrast to her positive spin and staunch defense in the moment. And it ripped open barely healed wounds from Democrats' disastrous effort to hold the White House, setting off a fresh round of backward-looking fingerpointing after the party's botched autopsy of the 2024 presidential election.

According to an article in Rolling Stone magazine, Operation Iraqi Freedom was never a war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, as much as it was an invasion of the federal budget by private contractors.

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On June 4, 1989, Chinese troops opened fire on civilians in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, part of a government crackdown on dissent that killed unknown numbers of pro-democracy protesters and bystanders throughout the city. In an act that would reverberate around the world, a solitary man stood his ground before a column of advancing tanks. His identity and fate remain a mystery, but his lonely act of defiance, captured by photographers, became an icon of the fight for freedom around the globe.

Items, Analysis, Opinions and News Gathered from Everywhere By Steven Maikoski, Author: ''The Real Constitution and its Real Enemies''

You see it all the time - people leaving coins on headstones, graves, and tombs. People have been doing it for centuries, and nobody really knows why. Some say it's to pay the ferryman, others to show respect. But what is the real reason? Why do we leave coins on headstones? Leaving coins on a headstone is a way to convey respect. It's a message to the deceased's family that someone has visited the grave and the person who left the coins will never forget the person.

The Battle of Midway, on 4 June 1942, was the turning point in that war, the moment when the Japanese surge that began with Pearl Harbor ended and the Americans went over to the strategic offensive. Thereafter and continuously, until the bitter end, at Okinawa and Hiroshima, the Japanese were on the defensive in a war of attrition they could not possibly win.

CBS News fired longtime ''60 Minutes'' correspondent Scott Pelley after he reportedly said Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss was ''murdering the show'' and accused its new producer of having ''slender qualifications'' for the job. Pelley, 68, criticized management during a fiery staff meeting with Nick Bilton, the program's new executive producer. Bilton, a journalist and filmmaker with no broadcast news experience, accused Pelley of ambushing him in his first meeting with the staff.

CNN headquarters was briefly placed under emergency lockdown this week after one of its own anchors accidentally asked whether Democrats spent 2024 lying to America about Joe Biden's condition, sources have confirmed. The crisis began after Jill Biden admitted she believed the former president may have had a serious medical episode during his debate performance, shocking journalists who had spent the last two years describing Biden as 'sharp, vigorous, and basically Captain America with aviators.''

Barry Seal was an ace pilot and a drug smuggler of such proportions that he has been called ''the biggest drug smuggler in American History'' In this capacity, he worked for both the CIA and Pablo Escobar. He was assassinated in 1986, a hit rumored to have been ordered by George H. W. Bush, who was Ronald Reagan's vice president at the time. His personal telephone number was found on Seal's body.

One of Japan’s main goals during World War II was to remove the United States as a Pacific power in order to gain territory in east Asia and the southwest Pacific islands. Japan hoped to defeat the US Pacific Fleet and use Midway as a base to attack Pearl Harbor, securing dominance in the region and then forcing a negotiated peace.

An American abolitionist who wrote about the corruption of slavery, Stowe's book had such a strong effect on its readers that it is considered by scholars to actually be one of the causes of the Civil War. In fact, its impact led to the oft-told apocryphal tale that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe 10 years after the book became a classic, the president greeted her by saying, ''So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.''

If you receive a call from someone who sounds just like your grandson and says he needs money or a gift card, the best thing to do is hang up and call your grandson. But if the voice is so convincing that you can’t bear to do that, ask for your family code word. If the caller can’t produce it, hang up. Likewise, if you are legitimately in trouble and need to call a loved one for help, say the code word so your relative knows it’s really you.

After studying over a dozen countries in the southern hemisphere, the scientists concluded that after 13 and a half billion Covid vaccines that were given out worldwide, 17 million people lost their lives from the vaccine alone. And the death rate data for the elderly was just shocking.

Deep in the Appalachian Mountains, a discovery is forcing scientists, historians, and politicians to confront an unsettling truth. The Cherokee Nation, has always been seen as a cornerstone of Native American identity. But recent DNA research has uncovered a revelation: Instead of aligning with Siberian ancestry, Cherokee DNA contains markers that stretch across the Middle East, and North Africa. This could mean that America's history is far older, far more global, and far more complex than we knew.

The United Nations-backed International Panel on Climate Change is responsible for the ''climate catastrophe''' and ''the world is burning'' scenarios that environmentalists, academics and many politicians have promoted to force high-cost, coercive energy policies on Americans. Disaster sells, so environmentalists and politicians embraced it with all manner of claims. If Obama really believed the oceans are rising, why did he buy a $17 million mansion right on the shore?

Iraq War veteran Edmundo Eugenio Martinez Jr. said the day has lost so much meaning that many Americans ''conflate and mix up Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Armed Forces Day, July Fourth.'' Social media posts pay tribute to ''everyone'' who has served, when Memorial Day is about those who died. For him, it’s about honoring 17 U.S. service members he knew who lost their lives.

The late Andy Rooney asks us to remember those who didn't come home from war.

The Trail of Tears was the forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of about 60,000 Native Americans of the ''Five Civilized Tribes'', between 1830 and 1850 by the United States government. White settlers, desiring the lands owned by the Indians, pressured President Andrew Jackson to sign the law into effect on May 28, 1830. The forced migration of tribes to the Southwest to new reservations resulted in perhaps 20,000 deaths along the way. A national disgrace.

Electricity is the lifeblood of modern society. Our entire infrastructure is dependent on power drawn from the electrical grid, as well as much of what is in our homes. Should the electrical grid go down, it would wreak havoc on the way we do things, bringing almost everything to a sudden and complete standstill. Society would no longer be able to continue as it has.

My son John went on a trip to the Caribbean a few years ago. As a young man, my '''hobby'' seemed to be hobbys, and I spent a lot of time scuba diving. The Bible says Noah built that ark when he was 750 year old, and without power tools ... Maybe I'll do this again.

The Catholic News Herald, ''Connecting Catholics in North Carolina'', bragged that the refugee case coordinator for the Catholic Charities Diocese of Charlotte, had been recently honored. His name? Ashir Haji-Mohamed. The latter part of the name meant that he had made a pilgrimage to the Islamic holy city of Mecca. Haji-Mohamed, a Somali refugee, had helped resettle Syrian Muslims in North Carolina. After a Biden retreat, Catholic Charities of Charlotte also worked to bring Afghans to North Carolina.

Explore over 5 million acres of forest and mountain land teeming with natural beauty, clear mountain lakes, and abundant opportunities for adventure. From the four faces carved at Mount Rushmore National Memorial to the otherworldly buttes of Badlands National Park — the Black Hills and Badlands are home to truly monumental places.

With this symptom of dementia (and some other conditions), the approach of sundown can trigger sudden emotional, behavioral or cognitive changes.

Everyone gets behind this event. The National Memorial Day Concert is sponsored by Lockheed Martin, The Horatio Alger Association and is made possible by The National Park Service, The Department of the Army, General Dynamics and Public Television Stations nationwide. All air travel is provided by American Airlines. I never miss it.

Jeff Bezos says, ''if Amazon ran like a government agency, your order would arrive in six months, the delivery charge would be a hundred bucks, and when you opened the package, it would be the wrong item.'' AOC has no idea how the real world works and she wants to be president.

By starting her flight on the East coast town of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, and flying to Ireland, the flight was about 2,000 miles. When Charles Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris, France, it was about 3,400 miles. But, most newspaper readers and radio station listeners of the time assumed they were similar flights, both amazing feats.

If you enjoy walking in the great outdoors, sooner or later you may discover a bear ambling along on the same trail. What should you do?

Senile Joe Biden had no idea what ideas his staff was cooking up and announcing to the public. Now, it comes out that former president Barack Obama spent more time in the oval office during Biden's term of office than Biden did. Qualifications be damned, when it came time to nominate a Supreme Court Justice, race was everything. A fully qualified white male candidate need not apply.

To assist in this search and rescue mission, the sheriff's office called in a highly skilled K-9 officer named Boomer. Body-camera footage captured the pivotal moment Boomer arrived at the property and was introduced to Cornett's personal belongings. Once the sharp-nosed K-9 became familiar with the missing man's scent, he sprang into action. Boomer began confidently sniffing around the property before leading officers straight into the thick woods.

Tomatoes aren't just expensive right now. They're a signal. The rise in tomato prices isn't random, its a clear example of how fragile and interconnected our food system really is. Right now we're seeing a combination of weather damage, tariffs, fuel costs, economy, loss of farmers/land and the people to harvest, and supply shortages all hitting at once. Tomatoes are now around $2.25 per pound, the highest in nearly a decade, and up more than 20% year over year.

Some groups, including the American Legion, hope for a return to the original May 30 observance, to truly set the day apart from just another long weekend off.

The Founding Fathers knew what they were doing, setting up a system with two Senators from each State, appointed by that State's legislature, and sent to Washington to represent the best interests of that State, not the interests of powerful individuals. The 17th Amendment changed all of that, and now, the Senators are in Washington representing the interests of anyone who gives them the most money.

Researchers have estimated that a bloodhound's nose consists of approximately 230 million olfactory cells, or ''scent receptors'' - 40 times the number in humans. Whereas our olfactory center is about the size of a postage stamp, a dog's can be as large as a handkerchief, it is among the largest in canines. The physical size of their olfactory area far exceeds most other working scent dogs, the larger capacity combined with the desire to work makes them a very good search and rescue tool.

The B-50 did not make its first flight until June, 1947, just six months before the first flight of Boeing's first jet bomber, the B-47 Stratojet. As the Stratojet underwent testing, the B-50 entered operational service in 1948, taking its place in bombardment wings of the newly formed Strategic Air Command (SAC), and being equipped to deliver atomic bombs in the event of the new Cold War with the Soviet Union turning hot.

A friend of mine is a beekeeper, and he tells me bees are needed in greenhouses for pollination. But, the bees can't see the sky, so signs are put up for them to read directions.

What do they always say? ''Follow the money''. It would be interesting to find out what Gavin Newsom insider got the commission for selling $189 million dollars worth of computers to the California penal system. A lot of that money was for prisoners on death row, obviously not for rehabilitation, executing would have saved the State a fortune right there.

Wealthy ladies and gentlemen who did not wish to travel far but wanted to avoid the mud and dirt of the unpaved streets went about in Sedan chairs. These often elaborately painted closed boxes were large enough for a single passenger. They had windows and were often handsomely cushioned. They were carried by two or four servants, in this way the lady or gentleman could go about without soiling handsome satin shoes in the mud of the city streets.

Before poor health stopped them, Danny and Sherry traveled the country with their travel trailer, stopping to spend time in towns most of us drive right on by. Their wonderful travel website is no more, but was saved for us to enjoy by ''The Wayback Machine''. I especially like the section on Minnesota towns they visited, including our family hometown Pipestone.

Sarah says: ''Fraudulent ads are actually not protected by the first amendment, not everything is protected by the first amendment, even though we have great free speech rights in this country, it's not absolute. The most important thing is that viewers need to be really diligent when they are online, and we need better consumer protections. Facebook is just not a place to be clicking on ads.''

The Tokyo subway network is a transportation marvel. On most lines, trains come every 5 minutes apart, on average, and during peak times, they tend to run every 2-3 minutes. That's about 24 trains per hour going in one direction. Despite so many trains, the subway is extremely overcrowded, especially during rush hour. Nearly all of them run at around 180% capacity, thanks to the ''Subway Pushers''.

A school board member named Andrew Kehoe, upset over property taxes, killed his wife, all his farm animals, chopped down all his trees, then drove to town and wired the school with dynamite and set it off on the morning of May 18, 1927. Kehoe’s actions killed 45 people, 38 of whom were children.

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