National Monument to the Forefathers

Designed by Hammat Billings, the monument located in Plymouth, MA honors the Pilgrims Christian values and principles as a matrix of liberty with the necessary components to a free society, and a blueprint of how a free nation can be maintained. The monument is composed of numerous statues; the most prominent is Faith, standing with one hand pointed to the heavens and the other holding a Bible. At the base of the pedestal where Faith stands are four seated statues representing Morality, Law, Education, and Liberty. Flanking these allegorical figures are smaller engravings representing more components of the template of liberty. Read More…

On This Day in History…

Trump Tweet naming Ciaramella is Deleted. Twitter Claims “Glitch”

5 years ago

President Trump tweeted out an article that names the alleged anti-Trump CIA whistleblower — Eric Ciaramella. President Trump retweeted a tweet from the Trump War Room that includes this article from the Washington Examiner that names the whistleblower in the title of the article. Members of Senate Whistleblower Caucus should protect#whistleblowers, not attack them. @ODNIgov & ICIG has made it clear lawful protections exist. So why is Senator @MarshaBlackburn pretending to be bi-partisan Caucus Member given her many attacks?https://t.co/C7hnkgupFj — Mark S. Zaid (@MarkSZaidEsq) December 26, 2019 Trump … Read More

Plane returns to LAX after flying with wrong passenger for hours. What was the Real Reason for the Flight Return and other Airline Chaos that Day?

7 years ago

As CNN reported: Chrissy Teigen and other Tokyo-bound passengers ended up right where they started after eight hours of flying: Los Angeles. The model and TV personality tweeted about enduring her “flight to nowhere” Tuesday night after All Nippon Airways Flight 175 made a U-turn and headed back to Los Angeles. The plane, which had 226 passengers aboard, turned around four hours into its flight to Tokyo “due to an administrative mix-up,” an aviation source said. The crew discovered an unauthorized passenger had boarded the flight, and opted … Read More

Indonesia Boxing Day Tsunami: The 9.1 Magnitude Earthquake that Ripped the Floor of the Indian Ocean was the 2nd Largest Ever Recorded

20 years ago

The following article first published in February 2005 focusses on the failures of the warning system in relation to the 9.1 earthquake of December 26, 2004 which triggered the Indian Ocean tsunami. The tsunami warning system was also examined by the author in two texts published in the immediate wake of the December 26, 2004 tsunami Foreknowledge of a Natural Disaster , (29 Dec 2004) and Discrepancies in the Tsunami Warning System (14 Jan 2005). The text below examines the broader seismic network as well as the system … Read More

Edwin Howard Armstrong Patents FM Radio. RCA attempts to Steal the Invention

91 years ago

The invention of the radio allowed information and music to be broadcast across long distances. The radio was first used to communicate between ships and land bases. Edwin Howard Armstrong’s patent of FM radio came through as he was concurrently battling another inventor for the rights to the invention of superheterodyne radio. Armstrong invented wide-band frequency modulation (FM) radio in a laboratory at Columbia University. His FM radio invention was different because it varied the frequency rather than varying the amplitude of a radio wave. This new technology … Read More

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