Monday, February 1, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Z%C3%BCndel#Nazi_UFOs-Antarctica

Interesting set of beliefs from Enrst Zundel's wikipedia page:

Nazi UFOs-Antarctica

When Zündel started Samisdat Publishers in the 1970s, he initially catered to the UFOlogy community, which was then at its peak of public acceptance. His main offerings were his own books claiming that flying saucers were Nazi secret weapons launched from an underground base in Antarctica, from which the Nazis hoped to conquer the world.[17]

Under the pseudonyms 'Christof Friedrich' and 'Mattern Friedrich', he also wrote several publications promoting the idea that UFOs were really secret weapons of the Nazis who had fled toNeu-Schwabenland in Antarctica ('Secret Nazi Polar Expeditions' [1978] and 'Hitler at the South Pole' [1979]). He promoted the idea of Nazi secret bases in Antarctica, Nazi UFOs, secret polar bases and Hollow Earth theories.

Along with publishing Willibald Mattern, a German émigré living in Santiago de Chile, books on Nazi UFO in its original German and translated into English, with Willibald Mattern, wrote 'UFOs: Nazi Secret Weapon?'.

The UFOs supposedly monitor humanity, and are part of a secret plan to re-conquer the world at an unspecified time. Whether he actually believed these notions or it was just a publicity stunt cannot be ascertained.[18][19][20][21][22][23][24]


Thursday, January 28, 2010

SS Chelyuskin

Sometimes Wikipedia leads to stories of insane heroism. Getting your ship destroyed by ice and then making and remaking a landing strip with rudimentary tools thirteen times, counts as that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheliuskin_(ship)

Monday, January 25, 2010

Planets in science fiction

This is a long article on various planets found in science fiction. Oddly enough, no Star Wars planets are included.

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Operation Downfall

Relevant pull quote:

Nearly 500,000 Purple Heart medals were manufactured in anticipation of the casualties resulting from the invasion of Japan. To the present date, all the American military casualties of the sixty years following the end of World War II—including the Korean and Vietnam Wars—have not exceeded that number. In 2003, there were still 120,000 of these Purple Heart medals in stock.[46] There are so many in surplus that combat units in Iraq and Afghanistan are able to keep Purple Hearts on-hand for immediate award to wounded soldiers on the field.[46]

Pretty intense.

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Manhattanization

A nifty term to describe the building of many, many skyscrapers in an area.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Hack-A-Shaq

While some out there may wish to learn what the "Hack-a-Shaq" defense is, I am not sure they would ever need to know this much about it.

Friday, October 16, 2009

Cardiff Giant

On the 140th anniversary of this "charming" Central New York hoax. Also details the misappropriation of famous quote to P.T. Barnum.

Thursday, October 8, 2009

Thursday, August 6, 2009

Tom Simpson

Cool story about a famous British cyclist. Worth reading if you like cool stories.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Simpson