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Post by SAR01 on Jan 26, 2018 19:21:03 GMT -5
On this date in 2004, a rare spontaneous whale explosion occurred in Taiwan. In 1966, the most notorious unsolved crime in Australian history happened, when three children went missing while on a trip to the beach. The case saw numerous twists and turns, including failed input from psychics and a series of hoaxed letters alleged to have come from the missing Beaumont children.
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Post by SAR01 on Jan 27, 2018 12:13:10 GMT -5
On this date in 1593 the Vatican opened their 7-year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno, accused among other things, of believing in the existence of a plurality of worlds. 'Minerve,' a French submarine disappeared in the Mediterranean, never to be found ('68).
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Post by SAR01 on Jan 29, 2018 20:22:17 GMT -5
San Diego teen Brenda Ann Spencer explained why she sprayed bullets on classmates on this day in 1979: 'I don't like Mondays.' This date also saw Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven published under a pseudonym in the New York Evening Mirror (1845).
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Post by SAR01 on Jan 31, 2018 13:00:04 GMT -5
It's February Eve-- a time sacred to the old Norse, as well as the Celts, who began their festival of Imbolc on this date. Telescope maker Alvin Clark discovered the dwarf companion of Sirius on this day in 1862, and so many birds gathered in the western part of San Francisco that the sky was actually darkened (1871).
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 1, 2018 17:19:21 GMT -5
Welcome to February, the month whose name is derived from Februa, the ancient Roman festival of purification. On this date in 1989, millions of Kenyan tribes people mourned the death of Omieri, a 16-ft. python believed to have magical powers.
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 2, 2018 19:18:51 GMT -5
On this date in 1046, monks recorded the onset of a severe cold snap which may have been the start of the Little Ice Age. The Cardiff Giant, the supposed petrified remains of a human, was revealed in court to be made of carved gypsum (1870).
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 3, 2018 13:00:57 GMT -5
Today in Strangeness
It was the coldest of all days in North America on this date in 1947, when the temperature dropped to 81 degrees below zero Fahrenheit in Snag, Yukon. In 1966, the unmanned Soviet Luna spacecraft made the first controlled landing on the moon. And in 1982, John Sharples of England finished a 371-hour marathon of disco dancing.
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 5, 2018 16:01:28 GMT -5
On February 5, 1974, the Mariner 10 took the first close-up images of Venus. In 1981, in Brisbane, Australia, two men created the world's largest Jell-O, filling a tank with 7,700 gallons of pink gelatin. Today is the birthday of H.R. Giger . The brilliant artist, who passed away in 2014, was known for his darkly surrealistic and 'Alien' designs.
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 6, 2018 14:45:29 GMT -5
Today in Strangeness:
On this date in 1971, Alan Shepard hit a few golf balls with a six iron on the surface of that gigantic golf ball known as the moon. The first ball landed in a nearby crater. The second was hit further, and in the one-sixth gravity of the moon, Shepard said it traveled "miles and miles and miles."
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 7, 2018 12:32:59 GMT -5
Today in Strangeness:
On this day in 1812, the New Madrid earthquake hit. At a magnitude estimated to be 8.2, it was the largest recorded earthquake in the contiguous United States. The town of New Madrid, Missouri was destroyed, and the Mississippi River was said to run backward for several hours.
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 8, 2018 12:53:11 GMT -5
Today in Strangeness:
On the night of February 8, 1855, the mysterious "Devil's Footprints" appeared in Devon, England. The hoof-like tracks, which have never been adequately explained, were said to stretch for over a hundred miles and went through solid walls and haystacks, as if there was no barrier.
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 9, 2018 13:55:09 GMT -5
Today in Strangeness:
On this date in 1902, Dr. Eugene-Louis Doyen of Paris surgically separated Radica and Doodica , Siamese twins from the Barnum and Bailey Circus. The operation was initially considered a success, but both girls died within a year of the procedure. Thomas Scholl of Munich issued the world's fastest yodel-- 22 tones (15 falsetto) within one second (1992).
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 10, 2018 14:47:13 GMT -5
On this date in 3641 B.C. the world was created, according to one Mayan calendar. PT Barnum staged the wedding of midgets Gen. Tom Thumb and Mercy Lavinia Warren (1863). Chess champ Gary Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue, the IBM computer (1996).
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 12, 2018 13:13:50 GMT -5
110 years ago on this date, the Great Car Race from NY to Paris began. In 1994, art thieves stole the iconic painting The Scream from an Oslo museum. And in 2001, NEAR Shoemaker became the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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Grassroots Activism/ Witchcraft & Success:
Named by the Atlantic as one of the hundred most influential figures in American history, and by Time and Life magazines as one of the hundred most influential Americans of the twentieth century, Ralph Nader and the dozens of citizen groups he has founded have helped foster safer cars, healthier food, better air, cleaner water, and safer workplaces. On tonight's show, he will discuss his relentless drive for grassroots activism and democratic change. Author of bestselling books about modern witchcraft, Fiona Horne is also a commercial pilot, skydiver, and professional fire dancer. In the second half, she will talk about the role of witchcraft in her success, as well as her work as humanitarian aid worker to impoverished and hurricane damaged communities in the Caribbean.
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Post by SAR01 on Feb 13, 2018 13:42:13 GMT -5
Today in Strangeness:
On this date in 1949, an Ecuadoran mob burned down a radio station following their broadcast of War of the Worlds. In 2004, astronomers announced the discovery of a huge diamond-like object in the galaxy, a pulsating white dwarf star, nicknamed Lucy, after the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
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