On July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield twice at a railroad station in Washington, D.C. — but it took him two months to die of his wounds.The president simply didn’t notice the man with the gun. Striding toward his train in a Washington, D.C. railway station on July 2, 1881, President James Garfield was deep in conversation with his secretary of state when a 39-year-old failed lawyer named Charles Guiteau raised an ivory-handled . Read More...
The massive coelacanth was thought to have died off over 60-million-years ago, but its 1938 discovery in South Africa shocked the scientific world.Scientists have long known that coelacanths once swam Earth’s seas. Fossilized remains helped experts date the supposedly extinct fish species back 66 million years, to the Late Cretaceous period.
But on a dewy morning in December 1938, a South African museum curator shockingly rediscovered them — alive.
Previously thought to be a living fossil, as scientists were confident that the 1938 specimen was the last remaining coelacanth, later studies revealed that the species is far more diverse. Read More...
In just 30 seconds, 30 rounds were fired when the tension between a crew of thieving cowboys and vigilante lawmen came to an explosive head in the frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona.Wikimedia CommonsWyatt Earp at age 21 in Lamar, Missouri. Circa 1869-1870.
The O.K. Corral shootout has become an iconic footnote in the history of the Wild West. Lawman Wyatt Earp, his brothers Morgan and Virgil, and his faithful friend Doc Holliday faced off against a team of lawless cowboys who ran ragged through the frontier town of Tombstone, Arizona. Read More...
