The air war in Korea is often remembered for the first jet on jet combats and the dreaded “MiG alley.” But a far less remembered part of the air war, before a MiG entered the fray, represented a key, if almost completely overlooked, moment in one of the hottest times of the Cold War.
On October 19, 1762 the day was so dark at Fort Detroit that candles were needed to see at noon. A British officer called the day "The most extraordinary dark day perhaps ever seen in the world." Some would take the darkness as a sign.
Solenopsis invicta, the “Red Imported Fire Ant”, native to South America, has proven a tenacious and destructive pest in the United States, costing Americans billions of dollars every year. That is why, in the late 1950s, the United States embarked on an all out war against the six-legged menace.