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To whom it may concern, we now have a (mostly) profanity-free mirror site. • By Alan Bellows • 02 January 2023
In 1933, British WWI vet Maurice Wilson hatched an unorthodox plan to reach the still-untouched summit of Everest.
A great pitcher’s great temptation.
In 1924 a bankrupt businessman in Portugal launched an audacious international scheme to become one of the wealthiest men in the world.
Robert Rogers, a man obsessed with trespassing, sets his sights on Mount St. Helens in the spring of 1980
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Written by Alan Bellows
In the late 1800s, a German high school mathematics instructor named Wilhelm Von Osten was pushing a few scientific e...
Written by Alan Bellows
On 22 September 1979, sometime around 3:00am local time, a US Atomic Energy Detection System satellite recorded a pat...