August 19, 1967. Captain Stephen Pless, co-pilot Rupert Fairfield, Gunnery SGT. Poulson and Lance CPL. Phelps were enroute with their UH-1E Gunship, were speeding along on a emergency med-evac mission in a hotzone of Vietnam. Enroute they received an emergency call on the radio from a transport chopper that was shot up and grounded on a beach making repairs. It was under fire from a number of Viet Cong. The chopper was able to fly off, but four troops were left on the ground, under fire.
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Having been at the University of Calgary for four and a half years now, I am nearly done my degree. Hopefully it will all be good at the end of the term and they’ll let me graduate. Although I have been told by the department’s undergraduate advisor that everything is set to go, I won’t believe it until I have the degree itself. Since I plan to graduate at the end of the year it meant that I started to look around at graduate schools more seriously last summer. Byzantine Studies is a pretty...

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Evidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. The theory of evidence is a field wrought with dispute. Many of these disputes stem from the limits of human knowing, a field known as epistemology The Study of Knowledge (Systems)]. Possibly the most salient question of evidence is how,...

Modern Forensic science owes a large debt to an elderly, wealthy, Chicago socialite with an inventive mind and an inquiring nature.

Frances Glessner, the daughter of International Harvester magnate John Jacob Glessner married at 19 to Attorney, Blewett Lee. They had three children but their differing natures' led to a divorce. Frances developed an interest in the work of her brother's Harvard classmate, George Burgess Magrath, who later became Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical...

A little over a year after I have joined, I've decided to try my hand at some speculative history again.


As most Irish will know, the Rebels lost in 1916 because they were outnumbered, outequipped and failed to gain any large areas of the country. But what if they weren't.


What if the Aud had landed? Those 20,000 rifles would have gone a long way. The Rebels now have an army similar to that of the British and on Easter Monday, not only does Dublin rise...