When most people hear the word amber they might think about the popular Jurassic Park movies, where dinosaur DNA was discovered. But the precious stone has been prized for centuries, most especially by the former Russian Empire. Their famous Amber Room was made with TONS of it. After several back and forth “exchanges” between NaziContinue reading “The Lost Amber Room – Russian Treasure and Nazi Plunder”
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America’s First Whistleblowers were its Founding Fathers
America’s very first whistleblowers were not the British, but actually 10 American naval officers during the Revolutionary War. They bravely reported improper behavior by the Continental Navy’s most powerful officer, their superior, to the Continental Congress in Philadelphia. In February 1777, those 10 men secretly gathered below deck on the USS Warren to sign a petition documentingContinue reading “America’s First Whistleblowers were its Founding Fathers”
The 1989 Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia
During an astonishing 6-week period in 1989, between November 17th and December 29th, a non-violent Velvet Revolution took place in Communist Czechoslovakia. It overthrew the 44 year old Soviet backed regime put in place by Josef Stalin at the end of World War II, and replaced it with a free democracy. It was nicknamed theContinue reading “The 1989 Velvet Revolution of Czechoslovakia”
Podcast: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall
By 1961, the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union raged unchecked around the globe. Since World War II, it seemed the entire world had chosen sides. The fortified ‘Iron Curtain‘ had been raised – borders dividing Western & Eastern Europe along Democratic vs. Communist lines. Berlin however, though divided as well, stillContinue reading “Podcast: The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall”
Podcast: Ten Propaganda Tricks Hitler Used to Control the German People
Outside of Germany during World War II, people around the world were appalled at the profound deceitfulness of Nazi propaganda, the ridiculous exaggerations, the outright falsehoods, the blatant evil towards their own Jewish population, and the astonishing acceptance of the German people. How on earth could intelligent, educated, rational people have been convinced by allContinue reading “Podcast: Ten Propaganda Tricks Hitler Used to Control the German People”
Statue of Liberty Powerful Poem Still Rings True
The United States is a nation of immigrants, and the children of immigrants, coming to America for over four hundreds years. From the first Spaniard and Englishmen to the current Latinos and Asians.
Does HAARP Study the Weather … or Control it?
The HAARP military research program in central Alaska has been a darling of conspiracy theorists for over a decade, claiming it does everything from control the weather to controlling people’s minds.
Podcast: The Deadly Galveston Hurricane of 1900
On Saturday, September 9th, 1900, a Category 4 Hurricane slammed into an unsuspecting, unprepared Galveston. At the time, it was a bustling port city on a Texas barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico. In the days before weather satellites or even radio, the people of Galveston had absolutely no warning, and no timeContinue reading “Podcast: The Deadly Galveston Hurricane of 1900”
Podcast: Remember the Sultana! The Civil War Disaster
More souls died during the Riverboat Sultana disaster than on the RMS Titanic! The Sultana disaster on the Mississippi River during the U.S. Civil War is in fact, the worst maritime disaster in U.S. history. So why is it such a forgotten piece of Americana, with no historical site or Hollywood film? Everyone remembers theContinue reading “Podcast: Remember the Sultana! The Civil War Disaster”
Podcast: The Lingering Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster
The greatest nuclear disaster the Earth has ever known, worse than even Japan’s Fukushima, or the U.S. Three Mile Island, began innocently enough in the early morning hours of Saturday, April 26th, 1986 at the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine. A simple safety test was about to be performed that wouldContinue reading “Podcast: The Lingering Legacy of the Chernobyl Disaster”