by tjb | Mar 29, 2023 | Author's Posts
Hartford Civic Center Arena At 4:19 am on January 18,1978 downtown Hartford narrowly missed being the site of one of the deadliest disasters in American History when the entire roof of the Hartford Civic Center Arena-covering an area of nearly 2.5 acres and weighing...
by tjb | Mar 24, 2023 | Author's Posts
The World Baseball Classic The New york Mets are an American proffesional baseball team based in the New York City borough of Queens. The Mets compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. They are one of two major...
by tjb | Mar 14, 2023 | Author's Posts
No Cash bail Ideally, bail is meant to serve two purposes: 1) it maintains the American ideal that an individual is innocent until proven guilty. This way, their normal, everyday lives are not disrupted while they await further court action and until they have been...
by tjb | Mar 8, 2023 | Author's Posts
TWA 800 Trans World Airlines Flight 800(TWA800) was a Boeing 747-100 that exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, New York, on July 17, 1996, at about 8:31 pm EDT. All 230 people on board died in the crash; it is the third-deadliest aviation...
by tjb | Mar 1, 2023 | Author's Posts
Some Wierd Science Example 26-A A federal grant was used to install solar panels on the parking garage roof of a major US airport. One problem: the reflective panels were blinding the pilots, so 25% of the panels had to be removed. But the remaining panels, say...
by tjb | Feb 22, 2023 | Author's Posts
America’s Recent Gun Events. * Six-year old shoots his teacher. The school was notified, hours before the shooting, that he might have a gun. His backpack was searched but no gun was found! * Four-year old roams the lobby of an apartment building with a loaded...
