by Bob | Nov 16, 2019 | Hidden History
After years of studying accidents and disaster, I came to the conclusion that almost every one involving people required seven things to go wrong. The seventh was the actual disaster. But those six precursors, which I call Cascade Events, by themselves, would not have...
by Bob | Nov 15, 2019 | Hidden History
Even though I went to West Point, which is just south of Storm King Mountain from Newburgh where Washington the Continental Army was encamped in the winter of 1783, I had never heard of this. We studied the battles of the Revolution but perhaps we should have also...
by Bob | Nov 5, 2019 | Hidden History
JFK was assassinated on 21 Nov 1963. His mistress, Mary Meyer, was killed on 12 Oct 1964. Shot in the back of the head while walking in Washington DC. The next day, the Soviet premier was forced out of power. How are these events connected? Mary Meyer kept a diary....
by Bob | Nov 1, 2019 | Hidden History
At the end of World War II, there was a race between the Russians and the Americans to plunder the scientific knowledge of the Nazi regime. Operation Paperclip was the code name this technically illegal program operated under. The was also Unit 731 run by the Japanese...
by Bob | Oct 30, 2019 | Hidden History
That’s called foreshadowing. The message was supposed to be L-O-G-I-N, but after the L-O the system crashed. It was going from a lab at UCLA to one at Stanford. It’s interesting that the internet came about as computing faced a crossroads in development:...
by Bob | Oct 12, 2019 | Hidden History
Many people consider the two the same, but I don’t. One is inward oriented, the other outward. At West Point we had to memorize quite a bit of ‘trivia’ otherwise known as Plebe Poop, which is self-explanatory. One bothered me a lot: In 60 major...
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