Hundreds attend memorial for RI firefighter
Hundreds of mourners attended a memorial service for a volunteer firefighter in South Kingstown who died in an accident at the fire station.
Photos: How the Army tests biological, chemical weapons
At the U.S. Army’s Dugway Proving Grounds facility in the Utah desert, scientists look for ways to protect soldiers against various chemical and biological weapons they might encounter in combat.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews Riot in Jerusalem
Thousands take to the streets to protest opening of parking lot on Sabbath
Fire danger already here in parched NW forests
Remnants of the state’s reasonably wet winter are evaporating as the region transitions to a potentially combustible summer. Even in damp Western Washington, a long rainless stretch in June has helped set wildfire conditions not normally seen until summer’s end.
Where the Transcontinental Railroad finally joined
At Promontory Summit, Utah, the Central Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad finally got together on May 10, 1869 after 1,776 miles of track had been laid over six years.
The Bigger Story Behind Michael Scheur’s Wish for an Attack on America
People aren’t putting this in context. In fact, many Neocons have also stated a desperate yearning for another attack on America (and see this).
Items gone from Nat’l Archives; Irreplaceable historical documents, computerized records lost or stolen.
National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers‘ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
Georgia freemasons at loggerheads over admission of black man to lodge
There is much about Freemasonry that remains shrouded in mystery to the outside world. But a group of members in the US state of Georgia appear to have clarified one thing – the supreme being in which all Masons are required to believe is not likely to be black.
Items gone from Nat’l Archives; Irreplaceable historical documents, computerized records lost or stolen.
National Archives visitors know they’ll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building’s magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won’t find the patent file for the Wright Brothers‘ Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory.
Rising Debt Might Be Next Crisis
The country first got into debt to help pay for the Revolutionary War. Growing ever since, the debt stands today at a staggering $11.4 trillion – equivalent to about $37,000 for each and every American. And it’s expanding by over $1 trillion a year.
