Death by Hanging
Hangings as a form of capital punishment by suspension of a person by a cord wrapped around the neck causing death, first occurred in the Persian Empire about 2500 years ago. There are 4 methods of judicial hanging. 1) The short drop, placing the condemned on the back of a cart, horse or other vehicle [...]
A Bewitching Aunt
For those of us who grew up in the 1960s one of our favorite television comedies was the ABC series Bewitched starring the beautiful Elizabeth Montgomery. One of the recurring characters of the show was Sam’s Aunt Clara as played by Marion Lorne. Marion Lorne was born on August 12, 1885 in West Pittston, Pennsylvania, [...]
Charlie’s Girls
The names Susan Atkins, Patricia Kernwinkel, Leslie Van Houton, Linda Kasabian and Lynette Fromme are ones that are always thought of when Charles Manson and his Family is discussed. But Manson had many followers and a lot of them were girls. The following is just six of Manson female followers, but they are not always [...]
The Family
Forty years ago in the first days of August many young Americans were in the planning stages to attend the music festival in Woodstock New York that would begin in mid month. But in Los Angeles during the early hours of August 9th and then again in late hours of the same day and into [...]
The US Revenue-Marine Service
The United States in 1790 was still very much a new and struggling nation. One that was just trying to survive. Most of its National Income came from tariffs from imports. Even then people were looking for ways not to pay taxes, in the form of tariffs and there was a great deal of Smuggling [...]
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge was visiting his family in Vermont in early August of 1923, while the President Warren G. Harding was on a speaking tour in the western United States. When Coolidge went to bed he had no idea that his life was about to have a big change. The family home had neither electric or [...]
Sturgis
As July ends and August begins thousands of motorcycle riders and their friends climb on their bikes and head to Sturgis, South Dakota to be part of the big rally that occurs there each year. The 69th rally runs from August 3, 2009 through the 9th. The Black Hills Motor Classic, the first rally, was [...]
August
August is considered the Dog Days of Summer and many people think that it’s because August is generally hot and muggy, which they are in the Northern Hemisphere. The Dog Days actually is related not to the weather, but to the rising of the Dog Star, Sirius. Regardless August is here. August is the 8th [...]
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