I DIDN’T KNOW THAT: The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. That’s an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used? Well, because that’s the way they built the railways in England, and English engineers designed the first US railroads. Why […]
THE POWER OF UNLEASHED WOMEN: Sarah Josepha Hale of Newport, New Hampshire was 34 years old and pregnant with her fifth child when her husband David died suddenly of pneumonia. With five young children to support, after a failed attempt to start a business, Sarah decided to try […]
STRIKE AGAINST WAR: The little girl in this photograph is Ruby Crane. From the age of 3-years-old Ruby walked blind soldiers around a rehabilitation center called St Dunstan’s at Brighton in Sussex. Ruby’s Father was the head gardener. She knew they were blind and had recently returned from […]
1. Pyramids are not tombs and were never intended to be. No mummy has ever been found inside a pyramid. All mummies were found in the Kings Valley. 2. How do you cut 20-ton granite blocks with extreme precision and lift them one on top of the other, […]
Sputnik correspondent Russell Bentley died in Donetsk. The American–Russian news correspondent Russell Bentley, who collaborated with the Sputnik agency, has been killed in Donetsk, said Margarita Simonyan, editor-in-chief of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and RT television channel. ‘Russell Bentley, aka Texas and ‘the Donbas cowboy’, a real […]
CHURCHILL AND THE BOER WAR ‘There is only a means, the resistance of the Boers to break; namely the toughest oppression. In other words, we need to kill the parents, so that the children have respect for us.’ ~ Winston Churchill, Journalist, Morning Post. NOTE: Boer concentration camp […]
Thousands of new and loyal readers likely suffer from information fatigue. Political news tends to be depressing rather than uplifting. Our reach tends to be restricted and readers donations fell alarmingly. Yes, we have intense competition which is better financed than we are. We survive on the generosity […]
A conservative Czech party proposes using a knowledge test to earn voting rights. Can democracies worthy of the name enact laws discriminating against stupidity and restricting the participation of idiots in public life? Polish political commentator Grzegorz Górny asks this provocative question. If enacted, such a proposal would […]
MICHAEL WALSH PROPHECIES: Unthinkable? So was the collapse of the USSR in 1991 and the disintegration of the United States a few years before its present dire situation. What was unthinkable just a few years ago has become a grim reality. It doesn’t have to be that way. […]
MICHAEL WALSH: It is irritating and frustrating to see a strategy for peace proposed by EUROPE RENAISSANCE years ago making the headlines by an ex-amateur today: Many of Europe’s problems, including the crisis in Ukraine, could be solved with one simple measure – the dissolution of the entire […]
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