“Eventually, September the 11th will be a date on the calendar. It will be like Pearl Harbor Day. For those of us who lived through it, it w...

Sixty-six years ago today, the United States dropped the first of only two atomic weapons ever used "in anger," i.e. for real, in ...

(Adopted by Congress on July 4, 1776) The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When, in the course of human ev...

69 years ago today, shortly before 8:00 a.m. local time, the Japanese attacked, and World War II began in earnest for the United States. Som...

9/11 Nine Years Later For most of my life, the New York skyline was dominated by the twin towers of the World Trade Center rising from the s...

I love history. I’ve always loved history. It fascinates me to discover what has happened in the past. In addition to my studies to prepare ...

Note : Many of these links are now broken. For example, Dr. Caner's messages from 2007 are no longer available at the Ohio State Associa...

Have you stopped lately and considered what amazing times we live in? I’m talking about our material culture; our technology. When’s the la...

Since I'm not posting anything substantive today, I thought I'd point you towards some stuff that I think is worth reading. The Que...

Fred Butler at Hip and Thigh posted a link today to a clip from the television talk show The View in which Whoopi Goldberg expressed some d...

Exactly 40 years ago today, at 20:17:39 GMT (3:17 PM EST,) the first manned spacecraft to ever visit another world landed on the Moon. I wa...

The Nut Cache - a collection of recent things I found interesting, or amusing, or nut worthy. As you are probably aware, I am a space and t...