David Hendricks, a businessman traveling in Wisconsin, calls police in Bloomington, Illinois, to request that they check on his house and family. According to Hendricks, no one had answered the phone all weekend and he was worried. When the police and neighbors searched the home the next day, they found the mutilated bodies of Hendricks’ wife and three children, all of whom had been hacked to death with an ax and butcher knife.

I have read that when President Lincoln dismissed General McClellan for the second time (after he didn't try to beat Lee to Richmond in 1862), the troops almost mutinied (The Civil War by Shelby Fo…

Wythe, GeorgeGeorge Wythe was born in 1726 in Elizabeth City County, Virginia. He gained a strong knowledge of the classics from his mother and also studied at a grammar school operated by the College of William and Mary. When he was somewhat older, he studied law in Prince George County. He was admitted to the bar in 1746 when he was twenty years old.

A painting of Sir Thomas More as Lord Chancellor (in office 1530-2 CE) by Hans Holbein the Younger. Painted in 1530 CE. (Frick Collection, New York)

The gleaming yellow gold hue of amber is one of nature’s wonders and one which has been sought after and admired for centuries.

Lt D.W. Gay& 39;s War Effort - Fragment of Navigation Notes This page from Lt D.W. Gay& 39;s & 39;War Effort& 39;includes a fragment of navigation notes, in this case recording deviations.Many thanks to Martin Hampton, the son in law of Lt. Gay, for sending us this material. These pages come from Gay& 39;s own private notebook which began with similar infomation to his flight log, but became more detailed, and also included a number of interesting items that had been pasted in.