On March 16. 1962, a Lockheed Super Constellation carrying 107 passengers and crew, including 93 soldiers of the US Army, disappeared without a trace. It is an enduring and unexplained mystery of the Vietnam era.
The appeal of one strange object, which achieved dizzying popularity in my lifetime, and today lives on mostly for nostalgia, is not so difficult to explain. All you need to do is turn one on and wait.
During the civil war, the manufacture of powder and explosives was often handled by the most vulnerable, young women and children, whose labor was needed when so many men had been sent off to war. On March 13, 1863, the confederacy experienced a munitions disaster, in the confederate capitol of Richmond.