My 1968
Unbelievable that it happened almost exactly 56 years ago. I remember the night of August 20-21st of 1968 as a six-year-old boy vacationing with my parents in a log cabin in the area of Chata Slovanka (http://www.slovanka.eu/) in Jizerské hory. We were woken up by massive airplane rumbling over hour heads at predawn hours and I ...
Read MorePaper on Ladislav Mňačko
This is a paper on Ladislav Mňačko for my studies at Franklin University Ladislav Mňačko was a Slovak journalist and writer, who’s work was defined by the horrors of World War Two and the rise of Communism in Czechoslovakia. He was born in 1919 in Valašské Klobouky, which is today’s eastern Czech Republic and was growing ...
Read MoreBattle of Athens (1946)
This text and picture was copied from the US History public group post on Facebook August, 1946: The citizens of Athens, Tennessee stage an armed revolt against their corrupt local government. People had long been outraged by the local Democratic machine, headed by Boss E.H. Crump, which maintained power through graft and ele...
Read MoreBoeing ..., Part 2
I am sure that I am not the only one, who's is surprised how the Boeing 737 MAX story changes requiring a Part 2 of the original article. In my previous note Boeing, We Have a Problem i put most of the blame on the pilots according to the information that was available at the time. Now we know more and things are more complic...
Read MoreBoeing, We Have a Problem
These thoughts about the Boeing MAX plane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia are in Politics section, because of very poor coverage in the mainstream media. What do we know so far? The Ethiopian Airlines crash on March 10, 2019 was very similar to the crash of Lion Air five months prior on October 29, 2018. On the previous...
Read MoreAdjust the AC, Please !
It's been hot in June this year of 1988 so far. What an opportunity to have some fun hearing! What about June 23rd? Yes, that's good, the room on Capitol Hill is available and what about the weather? What does the forecast say? Still very hot! Fantastic! And please, let's make sure that the AC is turned down. Considerably down o...
Read MoreBitcoin: The Blockchain is Coming
During my university studies late in 2015 I turned in a short paper with the title Bitcoin: The Blockchain is Coming Your Way. Given the current news of the rise of Bitcoin's value, it looks like this is an interesting topic. Here is my whole paper: The digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin was named once or twice in the news as a...
Read MoreAre We Alone?
This entry was originally inspired by a documentary on History Channel called "The Earth Without The Moon". However, the History Channel decided to take it down and regrettably it is no longer available on YouTube nor anywhere else. The thesis of this video was that the Earth is extremely lucky to have its Moon, because without ...
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