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I have a blog some here might be interested in. Historical content!

Discussion in 'History Forum' started by texasPHINSfan, Sep 14, 2011.

  1. texasPHINSfan

    texasPHINSfan New Member

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    I hate shameless plugs, and I have never done it before - but in this instance my blog might actually interest some of the other readers here.

    Like a lot of you, I'm a big history & geography buff. In particular I'm fascinated by the weird & little-known. My blog is largely historical but not entirely so - but the more recent stuff is still interesting.

    I feature things from Henry Ford's failed Brazilian town to dead bodies on Mt. Everest to shipwrecks that are still where they beached many years ago. I cover Russia's biggest "secret" nuclear town (WWII where Powers was spying before he was shot down in the U2), Japan's battleship island, the disappearance of the Mary Celeste (18th century), the Packard factory in Detroit, the D.B. Cooper case (the only unsolved airplace hijacking in US history), the St. Francis Dam collapse in California..... The blog is all over the place, but the goal is stuff you didn't know or perhaps wanted to know more about.

    Feel free to give me feedback. This is 100% me in my free time, and I'm not perfect, but it's fun. Just started it in June :)

    http://sometimes-interesting.com

    The "appendix" has the listing of all articles posted, if you were short on time.
     
  2. BigDogsHunt

    BigDogsHunt Enough talk...prove it!

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    http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2015808203_cooper04m.html

    [h=1]Oklahoma woman says her uncle is D.B. Cooper suspect[/h]
    check that off the list....
     
  3. texasPHINSfan

    texasPHINSfan New Member

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    Yeah I've read that and a bunch of other newspapers' articles on it - I actually cite it in my article on my blog too. You'd be surprised how many different newspapers around the country have articles claiming they found the guy, each with a widow or relative claiming their uncle or grandad was the culprit. There are probably over a dozen of these articles from all over the country. That one you referenced seems close to me as well, but the FBI has already shot that one down with contradictory evidence. The FBI still classifies it as "unsolved", and each claim has factors that can eliminate them. The FBI has DNA evidence of the actual hijacker, and to date none of the suggested suspects have matched the DNA profile.

    So still unsolved :(

    I think whoever did it died in the jump and the body has just not yet been found - but that's just my opinion.
     

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