The Iranian hostage crisis began on November 4, 1979. Radical Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and held captive 52 U.S. hostages until January 20th, 1981, which was the da… Read More

Not a lot of people know about it or have ever even heard about it. Underneath the Grand Central Terminal in New York City, just under the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel sits a long abandoned armore… Read More

Officials at NASA now say that the amount of "Space Junk" that is in Earth's orbit is now greater than ever before. They are currently tracking about 22,000 pieces of space debris that they… Read More

It took until about 2006 for all the squabbling and fighting that went on between the various authorities and owners of the site known as "Ground Zero" to finally settle on a plan and move… Read More

One of the perks of becoming the Commander in Chief is that the gig comes with what must be the most "tricked out" ride on the planet. The Presidential limo has a couple of names already. T… Read More

You would think that a sitting President of the United States would get the finest health care all the time. While that is what they strive for it is not always the case. Consider the situa… Read More

The debt ceiling in the United States has been around for a while. Since 1939 the debt ceiling has been raised a total of 84 times. 55 of those times it has been raised by a Republican Pres… Read More

There are a good many different sports that are practiced in The United States but only really a hand full that are profitable and popular. The biggest of them all in the U.S. is Football… Read More

In the wake of the nuclear disaster that took place and is taking place in Japan with its power plants after the earthquake and Sunami that hit there in March it might be an interesting que… Read More

Nasa this week has decided it will no longer make any attempts to contact it's long silent Martian rover known as "Spirit." The rover has failed to respond to radio communications and instr… Read More

A crisis is evolving in India and it has gone on for decades. The preference for Indian families to have male children is becoming so epidemic that there is now a lack of females in the cul… Read More

Now that the U.S. finally got it's man and dispatched the leader of Al Queda it might be a good time to try and figure out at what cost it all came to. So exactly how much money has the U.S… Read More

Don't look now but the Internet website Facebook has taken over the known universe. Kudos to the new boy king Zuckerberg. In case you are not sure just how dominant and ubiquitous Facebeeok… Read More

We all know that Steve Jobs and Henry Ford have a lot of success in common. They both created something that the world went crazy for that made them both uncounted millions. In Henry Fords… Read More

It is springtime again as i write this article and it is time again for me to get up on a ladder and climb up to my big clock on the wall and turn it over one hour. Have you ever wondered w… Read More

The next generation of UAV's (unmanned Aerial vehicles) is going to be smaller than ever before. The Pentagon is testing a UAV that will have the size and look of a Hummingbird hence the na… Read More

If you were watching Jeopardy this week you got to see perhaps a preview of what is to come for mankind and his inevitable decline into second place when it comes to the war between man and… Read More

The 2010 Census has been taken and the Bureau came up with an official number for the U.S. population of 309,745,538. Here is a closer look at how that number breaks down:155.5 million Amer… Read More

In a dangerous world it is seen by many to be a necessity to have a large army if you are to protect your nation from foreign foes. Some countries take this much farther than others and hav… Read More

With the recent shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Griffiths, resulting in the deaths of 6 of her constituents, including a 9 year old girl named Christina Green, and the wounding of 1… Read More

   Every time you go to your local grocery store or supermarket and reach for a can of tuna fish you are not just getting the tuna that is in the can but also a chemical that if in… Read More

While the people of Libya struggle to remove a dictator that has ruled over their country for over 40 years the media in the United States struggles to figure out exactly how to spell his n… Read More

Many People know that the U.S. military is currently deployed in countless places around the world today. Few Americans know exactly how large the U.S. armed forces are and what the breakdo… Read More

Unless you have been living under a rock someplace you already know that the world is in the midst of a population explosion. The number of human beings on this planet has increased alarmin… Read More

The Earthquake and subsequent Tsunami that hit Fukushima, Japan on March 11th, 2011 was devastating in many ways. For Japan itself it resulted in 15,000 dead, over 130,000 forced from their… Read More