by Bob | Nov 24, 2019 | Hidden History
That was the question at the core of one of the missions for the Time Patrol, Independence Day. I was trying to think of an ethical dilemma for the agent assigned the 4 July 1776 mission and this is it: Along with the declaration of Independence, Jefferson and the...
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 | 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 29, 2019 | Books, Movies and TV shows
Tuesday, 29 October 1929. The day that changed the world. Ushered in the Great Depression which would end with World War II. What if it hadn’t occurred? What if history was changed on that day? And on other 29 Octobers throughout history? What if Sir Walter...
by Bob | Oct 4, 2019 | Books, Movies and TV shows
When my wife and I met one of the first things that attracted us to each other was that our bookshelves held many of the same titles. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind was one of those. Not an easy tome and it requires several readings...
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