Tuesday, June 8, 2010

New Clues as to Amelia Earhart's Fate?

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Discovery News reports: Tantalizing new clues are surfacing in the Amelia Earhart mystery, according to researchers scouring a remote South...
Monday, June 7, 2010

June 7 1862: Political Invective in Amherst in the Old Days vs. Today

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Radical students invite controversial speaker to Amherst. Surprise. Controversy ensues: another surprise. As we've noted here (and ma...

7 June 1892: Edith Wharton Begins to Build "The Mount"

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From Mass Moments: ...in 1902, the writer Edith Wharton wrote to a friend about a visit to the site of her new home, The Mount, under const...

6 June 1944: D-Day

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One wonders what has become of the D-Day anniversary. Formerly marked by numerous events, it seems to be fading from consciousness as the da...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

4 June 1942: Death of Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich; reflections on the new monument at the assassination site

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On 27 May 1942 ( last year’s post ), Czechoslovak parachutists ambushed and mortally wounded SS Obergruppenführer (Major General) Reinhard ...
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5 June 1967: Outbreak of the "Six Day War" in the Middle East

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On this day, the Six Day War (as it is known in the west) broke out when Israel Defense Forces (IDF) launched air attacks against Egypt in r...

31 May: Memorial Day in Amherst. Honoring those who served; reversing the vandalism of veterans' graves

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"War feels to me an oblique place"      — Emily Dickinson Although I've lived in Amherst for a good many years now and ...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

30 May 1971: Vietnam Veterans Against the War Occupy Lexington Green

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As discontent over the Vietnam War rose, a "rabble" of militarily trained radicals was once again forced to disperse from Lexingto...
Friday, May 28, 2010

28 May, 585 BCE: Birth of Science (according to Bob Park)

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How nice to be able to pin an epochal event in the development of humanity to a specific date. Physicist Bob Park has it figured out: [ Ma...

Spring Scenes (I): Flora, Fortuna, History

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I'm really tired of talking about the divestment idiocy and campus politics and would much rather turn my attention to other, more prop...