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On May 19, 1780, Historian Thomas Campanella explains, “ a preternatural gloom settled upon the New England landscape, and by noon the sun had been all but blotted from the sky.” New England’s “Dark Day” was read as an omen, even, perhaps, as the biblical end of days. But the question has persisted for nearly two and a half centuries- what could have blotted out the Sun?
I am very excited to be on this revival of the classic History Channel show Modern Marvels. This is a special three epsiode series on engineering of WWII. Episode 1 premiers tonight, Monday, July 27 at 10/9c.
On Louisiana highway 1, just south of the leeway bridge in Jefferson parish, not far from where the road ends, is a marker for the Cheniere Caminada cemetery, all that remains of a once thriving town that disappeared virtually overnight.
In September, 1918, two desperate battles unfolded over two consecutive days between lightly armed American Naval vessels and the same German Submarine.
