Robert Scott Lazar or Bob Lazar born January 26, 1959
Millions of people have heard Former government scientist Bob Lazar’s story and a lot of them believe it.
He claimed to have worked on alien technology at a facility near Groom Lake (S4 at Area 51)
UFOligist’s think Lazar is a government disinformation agent assigned to spread lies about what really goes on at Area 51, others think he’s a profiteer who made it all up because he wanted to cash in.
In 1989, Lazar was at the center of the UFO universe. His allegations about alien spacecraft being tested in the Nevada desert exploded into the public consciousness. Lazar’s story was rich with detail. Not only did he see the craft fly, he said, but also he got to peek inside.
While the public ate it up, the military said nothing, and the UFO community dismissed it all as a fabrication since Lazar
could not verify parts of his background.
James Hiram Bedford (20 April 1893 – 12 January 1967)
He is the first person whose body was cryonically preserved (frozen) after legal death, and who remains cryopreserved.
To expedite matters, Cooper’s Life Extension Society, in June 1965, offered to freeze the first person free: "The Life Extension Society now has primitive facilities for emergency short term freezing and storing our friend the large homeotherm (man). LES offers to freeze free of charge the first person desirous and in need of cryogenic suspension."
Early on, there had been optimism. Robert Ettinger wrote in The Prospect of Immortality, "My own guess is that most of us will be frozen by nondamaging methods . . ."
Among those in the cryonics community, the anniversary of his cryonic preservation is celebrated as "Bedford Day".
Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) passed away 15 years ago today. Sagan was a gifted astronomer, astrophysicist, writer, and evangelist of science; he was best known for his TV series Cosmos, and his novel Contact, which was later made into a movie. Both dealt with the big questions of science (including are we alone?), and humanity’s place in the cosmos — about finding meaning through the scientific method, and experiencing wonder in the process. Sagan was a tremendously humane man, whose warmth and generosity of spirit exude a comforting glow that has inspired a generation of scientists, and now a generation of artists. In the years since Sagan’s death, the rise of the internet and tools to remix and share media have led to hundreds of videos based on Sagan’s work. — the man inspired a tremendous amount of creative work.
Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.
The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication. As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion.
As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T.H. Huxley and his fellow members of the X Club to secularise science by promoting scientific naturalism. Within two decades there was widespread scientific agreement that evolution, with a branching pattern of common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the significance that Darwin thought appropriate.
Lincoln supposedly wrote this heartfelt note to “the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle” for the Union in the Civil War, praising her for such “a costly sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.” The letter was widely reprinted in newspapers across the country. An original has never surfaced, but there have been many fakes. Historians have long debated whether the text was penned by Lincoln himself or by his assistant private secretary, John Hay.
Mrs. Bixby is said to have destroyed the letter shortly after receiving it, which would be consistent with her alleged Copperhead sympathies. Certainly the original copy sent to her has been lost. However, there is in common circulation a lithographic reproduction of the letter of unknown origin. This copy could suggest that the letter’s destruction was not immediate or that it was made from a forgery.
TEXT OF THE LETTER:
Executive Mansion,
Washington, Nov. 21, 1864.Dear Madam,
I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom.
Yours, very sincerely and respectfully,
A. Lincoln
The letter was used as a prop in the movie Saving Private Ryan.
Goodwife "Goody" Glover (died November 16, 1688) was the last person to be hanged in Boston as a witch.
Glover was arrested and tried for witchcraft. At trial it was demanded of her to say the Lord’s Prayer, she recited it in English and broken Latin, but since she had never learned it in English, she could not say it in English. The proof against her was wholly deficient. The jury brought her guilty.
On November 16, Annie Glover was hanged in Boston amidst mocking shouts from the crowd. Three hundred years later in 1988, the Boston City Council decided that this conviction was not just and proclaimed November 16 Goody Glover Day.
On November 3, 1957, the second-ever orbiting spacecraft carried the first
animal into orbit, the dog Laika, launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft (nicknamed ‘Muttnik’ in the West). Laika died during the flight, as was intended because the technology to return from orbit had not yet been developed.
In 2008, Russian officials unveiled a monument to Laika. A small monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in Moscow which prepared Laika’s flight to space. It features a dog standing on top of a rocket.
On November 02, 2000, a person calling themselves Timetravel_0, and later John Titor, started posting on a public forum that he was a time traveler from the year 2036.
One of the first things he did was post pictures of his time machine and its operations manual. As the weeks went by, more and more people began questioning him about why he was here, the physics of time travel and his thoughts about our time. He also posted on other forums including the now non-existent Art Bell site. In his posts John Titor entertained, angered, frightened and even belittled those who engaged him in conversation.
On March 21, 2001, John Titor told us he would be leaving our and returning to 2036. After that, he was never heard from again. Speculation and investigation about who John Titor was and why he was online continues to this day.
Click HERE to read an extensive collection of John’s IRC Chats
Robert Scott Lazar or Bob Lazar born January 26, 1959
