Texas, which is bet­ter than all other states because it was once its own coun­try, had, in its entirety as the Repub­lic of Texas, had 4 pres­i­dents, 3 if you’re not count­ing one of the office­hold­ers twice. From March through Sep­tem­ber of 1836 Texas had as interim pres­i­dent a man named David G. Bur­net. Bur­net, a […]

On May 5, 1945 while out pic­nick­ing in the small town of Lake­view, Ore­gon, a min­is­ter, Rev­erend Archi Mitchell, his wife Elsie and five local chil­dren found a deflated bal­loon made from mul­berry tree pulp in the woods near the town. The were about to inves­ti­gate what it was when another min­is­ter ran up yelling […]

In 2002 James Earl Jones was invited by the town of Lauder­hill, Florida to be their fea­tured speaker at their annual Mar­tin Luther King Day cel­e­bra­tion. As appre­ci­a­tion they wanted to pro­vide their guest with some sort of gift, so they turned to a local pro­mo­tions com­pany. The pro­mo­tions com­pany came up with a plaque […]

Den­nis Wil­son, brother of Brian Wil­son and drum­mer for the Beach Boys, was dri­ving through Mal­ibu in 1968 when he noticed a cou­ple of girls hitch­hik­ing on the side of the road. He picked up the girls, Ella Jo Bai­ley and Patri­cia Kren­winkel [1. From Vin­cent Bugliosi’s Hel­ter Skel­ter.] and took them where they asked […]

On Jan­u­ary 12, 1967, in Glen­dale, CA, Dr. James Bed­ford, a 73-year old retired psy­chol­ogy pro­fes­sor and writer, was the first per­son to undergo cry­onic sus­pen­sion [1. Cry­onic sus­pen­sion, most com­monly, but incor­rectly, called cryo­gen­ics, is the process where a sub­ject is flash frozen to the boil­ing point of liq­uid nitro­gen, or –320.5°F.]. Bed­ford had […]