The United States has had more serial killers than any other nation in modern history. US law enforcement communities even found it necessary to define the term, back in the 1960s. Before then the very idea of a serial killer had not even been conceived. There is something about the lonely highways, the disappearances and
Archaeologists in Arizona have uncovered a bronze cannon which dates back to the Coronado Expedition of the early 16th century. Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510 -1554), a Spanish nobleman and conquistador, led a sizeable expedition from what is now Mexico across the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542. The cannon, according to the study
It is March, 1942, and the US is reeling from the Japanese surprise attack on her surface fleet at Pearl Harbor three months before. A lone, Clemson-class destroyer, the USS Edsall, crosses the Indian Ocean headed for Tjilatjap, the only deep-water port on the island of Java. The Edsall is far from cutting edge. Launched
The Wild West was a lawless land. As the US settlers pushed west from the original territories of the United States towards the Pacific coast they encountered many dangers. The countryside was a dangerous place, the terrain often broken especially in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains. Outside of the safety of the towns there
In 1901 a doctor from Massachusetts found himself facing a puzzling question. The doctor, Duncan MacDougall, wished to reconcile the two major influential factors in his life: medicine along with the science that underpinned it, and religion. Put another way, MacDougall both understood and did not understand the human body. He knew much about its
Mars has fascinated mankind for much of its history. Unusually and distinctively red even when viewed with the naked eye, it was watched as it traced its unusual path across the sky by the great lost civilizations of old. Both the ancient Egyptians and ancient Chinese have records of Mars in their astronomical notes. The