Is it possible a Texas Baptist preacher beat the famous Wright Brothers to achieve powered flight a full year before Kitty Hawk? At the turn of the century, huge cash prizes were offered by newspapers for the first powered, heavier-than-air flight. In Pittsburg, Texas, a Baptist minister and inventor named Burrell Cannon just may haveContinue reading “Was the Ezekiel Airship First in Flight?”
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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”
The Deadly 1900 Galveston Hurricane
If you approached Galveston, Texas from the Gulf of Mexico in 1900, it looked like an American Venice.