Yearly Archives: 2022
The Top Secret Navy Mission that Accidentally Rediscovered the Titanic
More than a century after it struck an iceberg and sank beneath the waves, the Royal Mail Ship Titanic continues to capture the popular imagination. It is a classic fable of ambition, hubris, and the tragic social divisions of the Gilded Age, and has inspired countless books, documentaries, TV programs, and one of the highest-grossing… Read More »
The Flying Bandit and One of the Greatest Gold Heists in History
On December 14, 1979, a light aircraft of Sabourin Lake Airways disappeared while on an air ambulance flight out of Red Lake, in the Canadian province of Ontario. Aboard were pilot Ken Leishman, nurse Janet Meekus, and patient Eva Harper, an indigenous woman who had broken her hip in a snowmobile accident. So wild and… Read More »
The Littlest Naval War: Britain’s Balls to the Wall Bid to End German Domination of a Single Lake
When we picture the First World War, we tend to think of the mud and slaughter of the trenches in the fields of Belgium and France. But this is only a very narrow view of the conflict, for true to its name the First World War was very much a world war, with combat taking… Read More »
President Zelenskyy did not sell 17 million hectares of land to American conglomerates
Reports of a serial killer on the loose in Dundee are false
How Childhood Trauma Affects Us in Adulthood
According to research, two-thirds of us have experienced at least one adverse childhood event. Did you know these instances of childhood trauma continue to impact us as adults?[1] Trauma describes not only the nature of an event but how it affects you. So, the same incident can affect people differently based on their unique needs… Read More »
