by david allan van nostrand | Nov 25, 2024 | Human Behavior, Rituals, The Wayback Machine
A Closer Look at Executions Serial killer, rapist, and necrophiliac Ted Bundy admitted to killing 36 young women and girls and keeping a dozen of their severed heads as souvenirs in his apartment. Mass murderer John Wayne Gacy raped and tortured 33 young men he lured...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 18, 2024 | Actively observing, Americana, Human Behavior
The Pumpkin Pie Experiment In 1789, President George Washington proclaimed a “day of public thanksgiving.” In 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day that would be celebrated on the last Thursday in...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 11, 2024 | Items in the News, The Wayback Machine, Veterans Day
It’s Thank a WAC, WAVE, WAF, and WASP Veteran Week A soldier named Robert Shirtliffe was wounded in a Revolutionary War battle The doctor treating his wounds discovered Robert was not a man. When Deborah Sampson recovered, she was immediately discharged from the...
by david allan van nostrand | Nov 4, 2024 | Americana, The Wayback Machine, Trivia
The 2024 Presidential Dog Challenge Instead of adding to the miles-high piles of articles about the election, yet still wanting to keep things presidential, I started out to write an article about dogs the United States presidents have owned. This weekend, I was doing...
