Archive for February, 2010
On This Date In History: On this date in 1844, President John Tyler almost bought the farm. He was cruising on the USS Princeton the Navy’s newest and best warship that featured a 27 inch cannon. Trouble was, the cannon hadn’t been tested. Nevermind, the bigshots in Tyler’s cabinet wanted that sucker fired! So they [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, Culture, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, Opinion, Sports, This Date In History, Weather | Tagged: J Paul Getty, J. Paul Getty Museum, John Tyler, John Tyler Home, Lee Petty, Richard Petty, Sherwood Forest, Steve Burgin | 3 Comments »
On This Date in History: These days, every time there is a lack of rain in an area of the country, stories start surfacing about some who claim its an example of Global Warming. The truth is that droughts have happened throughout the history of time. It’s funny how when the Global Warming talk comes [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, Opinion, Science, This Date In History, Weather, Weather and History | Tagged: 1935 Texas Dust Storm, Charles B. Farwell, Cloud seeding, concussion method, drought, dust bowl, Edward Powers, Gov James Stephen Hogg, Government Spending, Government waste, pluviculturist, rain making, Rainmakers, Robert Saint George Dyrenforth, Wasteful Government Spending | Leave a Comment »
On This Date in History: Iceland is a rather ironic name for an island-nation that is not only formed from volcanic activity but is also a vulcanologist’s fantasy land. It is known as the land of Fire and Ice because of Iceland’s climate, that is cold but not as cold as one might think due to the [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, Culture, Environment, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, News, Opinion, Politics, Science, This Date In History, Weather | Tagged: 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood Disaster, 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, Buffalo Creek West Virginia 1972 Flood Photos, Buffalo Creek WVA Map, Corporate negligence, Freysteinn Sigmundsson, geology, Global volcanism program, Iceland Climate, Iceland Fire and Ice, Iceland volcanoes, Islamic Terrorism, Logan County West Virginia Flood 1972, major floods, Marshall University Buffalo Creek Virtual Museum, Michigan Technological Universitiy Global Volcanism, mining disasters, Mt Hekla activity 2010, Mt Hekla eruptions, Mt. Hekla, Mt. Hekla Eruption history, Mt. Hekla photos, Mt. Hekla summit video, nature, Pittston Mining West Virginia Flood Disaster 1972, Terrorism, US terrorism, volcanism, Volcanoes around the world, Vulcanology, World Trade Center Bombing | 2 Comments »
On This Date in History: Do you remember the movie, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid? It starred Robert Redford as Sundance and Paul Newman as Butch. It had some amusing scenes and some were actually based on some true events, though maybe not events associated with Butch Cassidy. For instance, there was the great [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, Culture, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, Opinion, Science, This Date In History, Weather | Tagged: Ameircan History, business, business history, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Corporate America, corporate history, E. H. Harriman, Edward H. Harriman, John Muir, John Muir on E. H. Harriman, Pampered cats, Promontory Utah, Railroad history, Railroads, Robber Barons, Train Wreck, trains, Transcontinental Railroad, Transportation, transportatoin history, Union Pacific, Union Pacific Stock Certificate artwork, US Industrialists, US railroads | 2 Comments »
On This Date in History: Lt. George Boyle was chosen to pilot the first leg of the first airmail flight from Washington, DC to New York. Among the spectators who gathered to witness the takeoff on May 15, 1918 was President Woodrow Wilson. With the throng watching in anticipation, Boyle sat in the cockpit of [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, Culture, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, Opinion, Science, This Date In History, Weather, Weather and History | Tagged: 1925 Kelly Act, Air Navigation Aids, airmail history, Albert Burleson, Charles Lindbergh, First transcontinental airmail service, history of flight, Jack Knight, Log P Skew T Diagram, Lt. George Boyle, Post Office History, US Airmail, US Mail Service, US Postal Sevice, US Postmaster General | 5 Comments »
On This Date in History: On this date in 1732 George Washington was born. His birthday used to be a National holiday on it’s own. I had to edit this post though to reflect the number of protestations from people pointing out that Washington’s Birthday is still the holiday, officially. I have to admit that I did not know that. [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, Culture, History, Opinion, Politics, This Date In History, Weather | Tagged: 7 Year War, American History, Cincinnatus, David Hackett Fischer, David Hackett Fischer Washington’s Crossing, Fort Duquesne, Fort Necessity, French and Indian War, General George Washington, George Washington, President Washington, Washington Crossing the Delaware | 8 Comments »
On This Date In History: My birthday is April 16 and on that day in 1846, 9 covered wagons left the land of Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois to began a 2500 mile journey to California. Initially the settlers were led by a reasonably wealthy man, James Reed. Reed made certain that his family would not suffer [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, Opinion, Science, This Date In History, Weather | Tagged: American west, Cannibalism, Donner Party, Donner Pass, Donner Summit, Fine Young cannibals, George Donner, James Reed, Lansford Hastings, settlement of the west, Southern Pacific Railway buried train, Southern Pacific Railway Donner Pass, Southern Pacific Railway January 1952, Westward expansion | 5 Comments »
On This Date in History: Back in the early 1930′s, the world was mired in a global depression. Europe was still reeling from the effects of the First World War. Consumer consumption of products was low. So, in 1933, the United States swore in a new president. Franklin D. Roosevelt went about trying to revive [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, Culture, History, Louisville Forecast, Louisville Weather, Opinion, Science, This Date In History, Weather | Tagged: 1944 German Staff Car, 1944 Kubelwagen, 1946 VW Beetle, 1974 VW Thing, 1975 VW Beetle, Adolph Hitler, automobile history, automobiles, business, business history, car history, Ferdinand Porsche, Ford Model T, German Staff Car, Henry Ford, Kubelwagen, Louisville Snow 02 FEB 2010, People's Car, Volkswagen, Volkswagen history, VW Beetle, VW Thing, World War II | 9 Comments »
On this date in History: These days, there are many who are upset with the criminal justice system in that violent offenders get released early or paroled for heinous crimes. One young man was known to have killed several people. He had a couple of arrests warrants for murder following him around as he went [...]
Posted in Bob Symon, Culture, History, Opinion, Politics, This Date In History | Tagged: American History, Crime, criminal history, Get out of jail free, Get out of Jail Free Card, John Wesley Hardin, John Wesley Hardin Dead, John Wesley Hardin death photo, John Wesley Hardin photo, John Wesley Hardin Wanted Poster, legal history, Old West, Old West Outlaws, old west Texas Rangers, outlaws, Texas Rangers | Leave a Comment »
On This Date in History: I have another in the long line of fisticuffs that have taken place in Congress that makes anything that happens today look pedestrian. Nowadays, if someone calls a fellow member a name, like “liar” (even if its true) then that member faces censure. It is more civil to say that the other [...]
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