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In 1893 a sensational trial in the District of Columbia pitted a young woman against a powerful US Congressman. The salacious allegations captivated the nation, and went to the very heart of the power structure of the Gilded age. The Breckinridge-Pollard affair is nearly forgotten today, but at the time it was, as a contemporary account of the trial explained, “The Most Noted Breach of Promise suit in the history of court records.”
I'll leave the questions of what happened in Roswell, New Mexico on July 8, 1947 to other channels. But the "Roswell Incident" occurred in the context of its time.
The AK 47 can be said, for good and for ill, to be the world's most popular gun. Yet the story of how the gun was developed is shrouded in myth and mystery.
