March 28th: Today in 1942 British Commandos and the Royal Navy raid the French shipyards at St. Nazaire which had been captured by the Germans. The raid was successful in damaging the ship yard, but the toll on the attackers was very high with 169 killed in the raid.
I have often heard Dr. Alice Medicine Woman complain about bad medical practice on T.V., but here is a cool blog that looks at medicine in the comic books. If you ever want to know the proper way to transport a wounded Green Lantern this is the place for you.
Brilliant Calls of Cthulhu over at McSweeneys. Being an Elder God has never been harder.
March 27th: Today in 1964 the most powerful recorded earthquake in North American history struck Alaska registering 9.2 on the Richter scale. Only nine people were killed in the earthquake, but over 100 were killed in the resulting tsunamis. A good personal account can be found here.
March 26th: Today in 1997 the bodies of thirty-nine people who commited mass suicide as part of the Heaven’s Gate cult are found. Cults are a difficult thing for me to understand, I spend my life challenging assumptions and trying as much as possible to think for myself, yet some people are very willing to [...]
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