Excerpt from Las Vegas Review Journal dated 05/30/2015. Read the entire article here. They dedicated a memorial that features a propeller to 14 men who died when a transport plane crashed near the snow-capped peak of Mount Charleston in November 1955 while headed to Area 51 to test the U-2 spy plane. The C-54 transport …
Many significant events occurred in 1955. A quick look at https://www.thepeoplehistory.com/1955.html will reveal some very interesting facts and discoveries. Significant businesses opened, billionaires were born, and the Polio vaccine declared safe and effective. Use the data at your own leisure.
Excerpt from Wikipedia.com Archaeological looting in Iraq took place since at least the late 19th century. The chaos following war provided the opportunity to pillage everything that was not nailed down. There were also attempts to protect the sites such as the period between April 8, 2003, when the staff vacated the National Museum of Iraq and …
A Spanish-Italian archaeological team says it has discovered an ancient replica of the tomb associated with Osiris, the god of the dead, in Egypt’s Sheikh Abd El-Qurna necropolis. The multi-level structure is thought to have been built sometime between 750 B.C. and 525 B.C. (25th or 26th Dynasty), based in part on its architectural similarity …
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In August 1947, the U.S. Forest Service granted a special-use-permit to White Sands Providing Ground. The permit authorized the Army to use Mule Peak at Lincoln National Forest for installing experimental instruments, as well as installing shelters and constructing an access road in support of obtaining ballistic measurements on guided missile testing. In 1948, Telescope …
