History

History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from. And if it offends you, even better, because you are less likely to repeat it. History is not yours to change or destroy.

Table Of Contents
  1. Military
  2. Paleontology
  3. Curse of Oak Island
  4. General
  5. Local
  6. Art
  7. Doyle's Space
  8. Inventions

Last Updated May 14, 2023 @ 3:25 pm

Alphabetical Posts

Military

Paleontology

Battle of Los Angeles 1942
D-Day and Maisy Battery
Henry Repeating Rifle, The
F-15C Grim Reapers
Flares, Parachute
Grumman TBF Avenger
Heated Cans?
Ice Cream, WWII Navy
Omaha Beach, The Cover-Up At
Otjikoto Lake
Needle Guns
9/11
Project Excelsior
Submarine AE1 Found
Thermite Grenades
Tic Tac Video
USS Doyle DMS-34
USS Oklahoma Unknown Marines and Sailors
Vargas, Alberto
Yeager Dies, Chuck
Duck-billed Dinosaur
Eoraptor
Fossilogic
Sea Dragons? (Ichthyosaur)

Curse of Oak Island

Arsenical Bronze
Barnhart, Ph.D., Professor Edwin
Clotworthy, The Voice of Robert
Curse of Oak Island by Randall Sullivan, The
Dendrochronology
Drayton, Gary
Fleur-de-lis
Lagina, Rick and Marty
Redware (Coming Soon)
Spence: Underwater Archeologist, Dr. Edward Lee
Spooner, Dr. Ian
Taylor, Travis S.

General

Local

666 – The Meaning
Advent Calendar
Amato Carnage
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
April Fools
Aquarium Beginnings
Australia’s Ice Breaker RSV Nuyina
Batagaika Crater
Beck and Call
Henry C. Beck Company
Berwyn (Chicago, Illinois)
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Bruno, Giordano
Callanish Stones, The
Cedar Trinket Boxes, Souvenir
Chessie System
Cloud 9?, What is
Cooties
Cottonland Castle
Crowbar?, Why is it called a
Cubicles
Daylight Saving Time
Dewey Decimal System
Edmund Fitzgerald, SS
Excommunicated
The History of Escalators
Ford Maverick
Fort Worth Stockyards
Front Page News (Part 1), Historic
Gargoyle or Grotesque
Genericized Brand Names
Glass Onion Bottle
Glidden Grave Robber?, Ralph
Graveyards?, How Many People Live in
Guinness Records Records Breaker
Henges?, What are
Hungarian Records
Iron Gall Ink
Jaywalking?
Lake Tahoe: A Sweetheart of a Lake
Last Names Get Started?, How Did
Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST
London Hammer
Lord Byron
Mad as a Hatter
Mansa Musa
Mariana Trench
Mars, Inc.
May 1958
McDonald’s, Weird, But Cool,
Monks Mound
Morse Code
Motels
Mount Shasta Mysteries
NASA Railroad
Nevada State Prison
New Nazca Lines?
O’Clock?, Why is it
Olympic Events, Discontinued
Oshkosh Striker ARFF
Prohibition Agents
Radioluminescent Paint
Reservoir Dog?, What Is A
Rock Cairns
Skeleton Lake Mystery
St. Marks Lighthouse
St. Patrick’s Day? What is
Tasmanian Place Names, Crazy
Van Meter Visitor
Videos, Renting
Wallace is Here, Mike
Wet-Naps
Weird and Crazy Laws (Part 1)
Winchester Mystery House
Yakutsk
Yosemite (Sidewheeler)
Xcaret Park, Mexico
Atlanta Area Codes
Automobile Glass Company
FFA Milton High School Log Cabin
Milton’s 100th Year
Peachtree in Atlanta?, Looking for
Renting Videos
WSB Radio 100 Years

Art

Balloon Modelling
Bishop, Richard
Italian Artist Sells Nothing For $16,507.50

Doyle’s Space

My Blog is Growing
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Inventions

Air Conditioning
Antikythera Mechanism
Bubble Wrap
Cable Barriers, Roadway
Dawn Soap
Drink Coasters
Franklin, The Inventions and Discoveries of Benjamin
Garage Door Opener
Igloo Coolers
Koss Headphones
Laff Machine, The
Liquid Paper
Shopping Carts
Safety Pins
Toilet Paper
Uni-Ball Pens
Wet-Naps

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