Monthly Archives for December 2006
Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death
The Year Without a Summer took place in 1816 when freakishly bizarre climatic changes took place because of a large amount of volcanic activity in the recent years leading up to 1816. The eruptions believed to have caused the anomaly were — … Continue reading
The La Réunion Experiment
La Réunion was a socialist Utopian community founded in 1855 by French, Belgian, and Swiss colonists approximately three miles west of the present Reunion Arena and Reunion Tower in downtown Dallas, and near the forks of the Trinity River. The … Continue reading
Dallas’ Nazi POW Camp
I live in Dallas, and as far as I can tell, other than the first 7–11 and, of course, the JFK assassination, Dallas doesn’t have a lot of tales, but by gum we did have our very own Nazi POW … Continue reading
What Were the 8 Possible Test Sites For the Atomic Bomb?
The atomic bomb testing portion of the Manhattan Project, code named the Trinity Project, had 8 possible test sites. These possible sites were1 — The Tularosa Basin near Alamogordo, NM The lava beds (now the El Malpais National Monument) south … Continue reading