Just before midnight on April 14th, 1912, the Titanic hit an iceberg. Yes, this really happened. No, it wasn’t just James Cameron making shit up. I thought I should state that for the record, because it seems some folks these days aren’t aware of that fact. I know you already know this, my darlings, but …
Category Archive: anniversaries
May 18 2011
The Big Ba-Boom
It’s that time o’ year again. 31 years ago, Mt. St. Helens blew herself nearly in half and changed America’s consciousness of volcanoes for generations. Up till then, I think a good majority of us believed that ginormous esplodey eruptions were things that happened to other countries’ mainlands. Yeah, we’d had eruptions in Alaska and …
Aug 08 2010
Never Forget. Never Again.
I missed a grim anniversary: the bombing of Hiroshima, but 65 years ago today we dropped Fat Man on Nagasaki, and that shouldn’t be forgotten, either. Opinions differ as to the severity of the war crime and whether or not it was necessary for America to drop nuclear weapons on two cities filled with civilians. …
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