Tag: United States
The Harpe Brothers: The First Serial Killers in American History
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…
Oldest Firearm in US History Found in Arizona
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…
The Dancing Mouse: USS Edsall Wreck Rediscovered After 80 Years
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 Legend of Polly Bartlett, the Murderess of Slaughterhouse Gulch
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…
21 Grams, Artificial Intelligence, and the Path to Robot Suffrage
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…
Mars Mystery Solved? MIT May Have Found Its Lost Atmosphere
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…