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Wisconsin’s Republican Senator Alexander Wiley said last October thatthe Senate should investigate the Office of Alien Property’s “supergravy train” for friends of the Truman Administration.…

Nikola Tesla was an eccentric inventor, but not everything he envisioned made its way into practical reality.

I’ve been to Roswell, NM; made a relax time stop during one of my many road trips.  Visited the Roswell UFO Museum and Research Center out of curiosity as I am, by nature, a curious person.  Really nice people, true believers.  I learned nothing new at the museum nor did it change my mind.

After the famous inventor’s death, the government (likely illegally) confiscated Tesla’s property, supposedly for national safety. But did it return everything?

ELIZABETHTON — By 1942, Circuit Court Judge Ben Allen’s life and activities had become well established. It probably appeared to everyone in his community that the remainder of Allen’s life

Alexander Zaitchiks new book, Owning the Sun, is a fascinating look at the long, infuriating history of public research being exploited for private profit..

Views 1 Nikola Tesla was a scientist who lived nearly a century ago, born in Serbia in the middle of the night during a thunderstorm on July 10, 1856. Tesla’s interest in electricity was inspired by his mother, who created a small electrical appliance while he was growing up. Tesla was a genius who had a photographic memory and was able to imagine and tweak inventions in his head that were three-dimensional. Tesla also knew eight languages (Anderson, 2017). Tesla moved to America in 1884 to w...

Bush bank tied to Nazi funding Follow Us Kay C. James Question of the Day     ASSOCIATED PRESS President Bush’s grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler’s rise to power, government documents show. TOP STORIES Prescott Bush was one of seven directors of Union Banking Corp., a New York investment bank owned by a bank controlled by the Thyssen family, according to recently ...

Stories We Missed in 2020: 150 Years of the Met in 7 Objects What key artworks can tell us about the museum’s historical biases and what’s next for the New York institution ‘150 Years of the Met in 7 Objects’ is part of a series of essays on the stories we missed in 2020. Look out for more of our end of year coverage to follow.  This year, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art turned 150. It might have been cause for celebration, were it not for COVID-19. Instead...