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This month brings new ways of thinking about American history, from slavery to the Alamo to same-sex marriage, as well as fiction from Rivka Galchen and Brandon Taylor, and a second thriller by Bill Clinton and James Patterson.
Phil Collins' $15M Alamo collection is flashy, but is it real? FacebookTwitterEmail Former Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and singer Phil Collins signed an agreement for Collins to donate his extensive collection of Alamo artifacts to the state of Texas. But several experts question the authenticity of several of the collection’s marquee exhibits.Julysa Sosa, Contributor/San Antonio Express-News A strip of bronze near the doors to the Alamo church allegedly marks where William B. Travis drew a line in the sand for his troops to cross if they were ready to sacrifice their lives in t...
Historian Bruce Winders says he's repeatedly warned his superiors about the sketchy...
Adapted from Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth, by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford. Reprinted by arrangement with Penguin Press, a member of Penguin Group (USA) LLC, a Penguin Random House company. Copyright Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford, 2021. Kaye Tucker thought she had come up with a clever idea. If everything fell into place just right, she could accomplish two things at once: transform the Alamo into a world-class historical site and help an aging British rock star clean out his basement. The path to that strange opport...
It's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727 Richard Speed Fri 16 Apr 2021 // 16:33 UTC Share Copy Boffins are set to get a ride on the Zero Gravity Corporation's "weightless research lab" to test a refrigerator designed for jaunts to orbit, the Moon or even Mars. The engineers from Purdue University, Air Squared and Whirlpool are working on a refrigerator that will function in different orientations as well as the one more suited to domestic kitchens on Earth. The idea is to give astronauts access to food not necessarily freeze-dried...