By the second decade of the 20th century, the West 110th Street blocks known as “Little Coney Island” had been pretty much removed by real estate developers who were building grand apartment houses along the street at the southern edge of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine’s property....
Before 1912, call signs were just made up by the aspiring Amateur and it wasn't until the Radio Act of 1912 that the first licenses were issued. An HTML version of Early Radio Laws 4 is on-line. Very interesting reading as it defines DE, CQ, Operating Procedures, Morse Code of the ...
Ham radio operators are sounding the alarm over the latest threat to their beloved hobby-and this time, it is coming from Wall Street. A group of high-frequency trading firms is asking the Federal Communications Commission to open shortwave frequencies to greater commercial use, so they can use...
We know from Eliza Rennie’s account of meeting a younger Walter (then known as Mary Diana Dods), that he had some kind of long-term illness, Rennie describing ‘that worn and suffering look in her face which so often and so truly – as it did poor thing, in hers – tell of habitu...
On the 4th of August 2000, nobody could have imagined that within a matter of weeks, the United Kingdom of Great Britain would cease to exist as a nation. A virus, the likes of which the world had never seen, was about to sweep the nation. Many had feare
If the victim begins to show signs of dementia by, for example, claiming that Cappadonna’s verse on any song was the best one, it is critical that spectators leave the scene immediately. There have been rare cases of Wu-Tang Killa Zombie Virus reported by those who have experienced length...
1174 - William I signs the Treaty of Falaise in which he swears allegiance to Henry II of England.1185 - William pays Richard I of England money to finance his crusades to the Holy Land. 1189 - Scotland is recognized as independent by Richard I of England1192 - The Pope decress that ...
new techno-deities. They look up to the surveillance satellite, deep into the entrails of electronic micro-circuitry, and from behind Stealth protection to find the omniscient machines and incontrovertible signs that can help us see and, if state reason necessitates, evade or destroy the others...
We were talking a WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP of BMX, but the world around Dayton-Ohio/Kettering did not even know it was happening! No signs, no posters, no nothing. This is not the way to promote BMX, gain respect from riders and being competitive towards the UCI / NBL. We have been looking...
The Republican base, who pride themselves on unshakeable patriotism and on their veneration of the Founding Fathers, do not hesitate to deify Trump on signs, banners, and ubiquitous flags, depicting him sometimes as the musclebound, gun-toting action hero that he has never approximated in real ...