A Silent Death
On the morning of February 2, 1922, the body of silent film director William Desmond Taylor was discovered at his home. The director had been killed by a shot in the back. In his pockets was his wallet with 78 dollars, a silver cigarette case and an ivory toothpick. A 2 caret diamond ring was [...]
I Don’t Like Mondays
On Monday January 29, 1979 the day was starting as usual for Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, California. Then all of a sudden shots rang out. They were coming from the house across the street. During the 6 hour shooting spree and standoff Principal Burton Wragg and head custodian Mike Suchar were killed. Eight [...]
The First to Die
On September 24, 2009 at 11:46 PM PT Susan Atkins breathed her last breath. She had been the longest serving woman in the California prison system and one of the people that were convicted along with Charles Manson for gruesome murders that occurred in the Summer of 1969. She was the first of those convicted [...]
Her Death Lead to the Downfall of a Clown
If it wasn’t for the people that were around her when she died on September 9, 1921 in San Francisco, the name and the person Virginia Rappe would just be a small fact in the course of history. However, Rappe died after attending a Labor Day party held by Hollywood Silent Film Comic Roscoe ‘Fatty’ [...]
Dead at 27
Amy Winehouse was discovered dead. Even though at the time of this writing (July 24, 2011) the cause of death has not been determined, it is fair to conclude with her history of drug and alcohol abuse that it may have been a contributing cause. Amy Winehouse was 27. The age of 27 and the [...]
Pan Am Flight 214 – Update
A little over 2 years ago on the 45th Anniversary of the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 outside of the small Maryland community of Elkton, 6 Things to Considered published 6 paragraphs about the accident. There has been a number of comments on the post, a few by people who were directly impacted by [...]
It’s a Blue Moon
It’s commonly thought that a Blue Moon occurs when there are two full moons in the same month. This hasn’t always been the meaning of a ‘Blue Moon’. In 1946 an article by James Hugh Pruett appeared in Sky & Telescope March edition mistakenly referring to a Blue Moon as being the second full moon [...]
Evil in the Air
Two nights August 8 and 9, 1969 rocked Los Angeles. On the night of the August 8th at the rental home of Roman Polanski and his pregnant wife Sharon Tate a group of deranged hippies gruesomely killed Steven Parent, Jay Sebring, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Sharon Tate and Sharon Tate’s unborn child. Polanski was in [...]
420
One of the terms that many seem to be seeing in personal ads and even sometimes a a text code is 420. Today it is generally used to signify illegal drug use or more specifically the use of marijuana. But where did the term come from. According to snopes.com it started to be used by [...]
Irish Traditions
St. Patrick is considered the Patron Saint of Ireland, but he was born in Britain. He was born near the end of the 4th Century to wealthy parents and was abducted by Irish Raiders and held in captivity in Ireland for 6 years. During this captivity he became a devote Christian. He is believed to [...]
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