‘Their lives mattered. Their baby’s lives mattered. They should be alive and not dead! Where is the outcry?’ I was 17 sitting with my mom in her room at a little round table. As we talked, I felt this incredible connection with her. I believe she felt it too and this is what prompted her […]
This is excellent. If the social media companies are smart, they will cite the studies that show aluminum and mercury in vaccines – and vaccination – are harmful and cause dementia.In a stunning turn of events, the massive social media companies Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Tiktok, and Youtube – have been sued. According to Malwarebytes.com, “The […]
“Among children with eczema, vaccine-associated aluminum was positively associated with persistent asthma (aHR 1.26 per 1 mg increase in aluminum)” Raise your hand if you’re a parent and you have noticed that your child with eczema seems at risk of autoimmune conditions, including autoimmune diseases of the airways like persistent asthma when exposed to vaccines. […]
Some of my favorite childhood memories were the road trips my parents and I took from California to Arizona, every summer, to visit family. These were the days before President Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway System was created, so motor travel was conducted on “two-way” county roadways, some better maintained than others. Once the games of “what […]
Arthur “Harpo” Marx (born Adolph Marx) was an American comedian, actor, mime artist, and musician, and the second-oldest of the Marx Brothers. Although the comedy of his brothers Groucho Marx and Chico Marx, Harpo’s style was visual, exemplifying both clown and pantomime traditions. He wore a curly reddish blond wig and was silent in all his movie appearances, instead blowing a horn or whistling to communicate. One of his most well-known […]
On October 24, 1861, workers completed construction of the link connecting eastern and western telegraph networks of the nation at Salt Lake City, Utah, completing a transcontinental line that for the first time allowed instantaneous communication between Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, and effectively put an end to the Pony Express. The idea behind the […]
This is the troopship HMS Queen Elizabeth. Both the QE and Queen Mary were used as troop transports during and after the Second World War. Their high speeds allowed them to outrun hazards, principally German U-boats, usually allowing them to travel without a convoy. Her carrying capacity was over 15,000 troops and a crew of […]
On July 10, 1944, equipped with only a mirror and hand-made semaphore, U.S. Navy Radioman First Class George Ray Tweed signaled: “I have information” to the U.S. fleet as they approached Guam for the Second Battle of Guam. From his vantage point, Tweed conveyed information about Japanese defenses that he had gathered during his seclusion […]
My children know that I love trivia, especially historical trivia. Not long ago, I received an e-mail from my eldest daughter asking “Did you know this, Mom?” Her e-mail read as follows: “The atom bomb was one of the defining inventions of the 20th Century. So how did science fiction writer HG Wells predict its […]
The first version of “Yankee Doodle” is generally attributed to a British army physician, Dr. Richard Schuckberg, during the French and Indian War. It was a satiric look at New England’s Yankees. According to one story, Shuckburgh wrote the song after seeing the appearance of Colonial troops under Colonel Thomas Fitch, V, the son of […]