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Wild West
December 2003
Roger Jay |
Spitting Lead in Leadville: Doc Holliday's Last Stand Although his glory years in Tombstone were behind him, down-on-his-luck Doc Holliday delivered a parting shot or two in Colorado.   |
Science News
November 29, 2003 |
TimeLine: November 25, 1933 Steel towers go up and down to speed survey of country... Cosmic collapses held cause of birth of spiral nebulae... Long-known chemical found to be most versatile solvent... |
Science News
November 22, 2003 |
TimeLine: November 18, 1933 "Rosetta Stone" of prehistoric America... Glassy stones may be from shattered planets... |
Aviation History
Nick D'Alto |
Victorian Dreams of Flight In the 1840s, British aeronautical pioneers envisioned a world where air travel would connect people around the globe. |
Aviation History
C.V. Glines |
Captain Eddie Rickenbacker When America's WWI Ace of Aces Edward Rickenbacker became president of Eastern Air Lines, he said: "I will always keep in mind that I am in the greatest business in the world ... and I can serve humanity more completely in my line of endeavor than in any other." |
Aviation History
C.V. Glines |
The Guggenheims: Aviation Visionaries Everyone flying today is a beneficiary of this father-son team's vision and largesse. |
Aviation History
C.V. Glines |
World's First Winged Airline Scheduled service on the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line in the winter of 1914 treated a passenger or two to a wooden seat, fresh Florida air -- and salt spray in the face. |
Military History
Richard Gordon |
Stopping Attila: The Battle of Chalons Flavius Aetius' confrontation with Attila the Hun in AD 451 is widely regarded as a turning point in history, but it may only have hastened the fall of the Western Roman Empire. |
Military History
Comer Plummer III |
The Walls of Constantinople For almost 1,000 years the wall of Constantinople defended Western Christendom -- only to be compromised by Crusaders and finally breached by Turkish cannons. |
Military History
Erik Hildinger |
Belisarius' Bid for Rome As Byzantine Emperor Justinian revived the Eastern Roman empire, he sent his greatest general west to retake Rome. |
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