Showing posts with the label Canada

The Mysterious Jerome of Sandy Cove

Nov 24, 2023

The story of a legless mystery man known as “Jerome” who turned up one day in 1863 in Sandy Cove is well-known in Nova Scotia. He was found ...

Sable Island: The Graveyard of The North Atlantic

Jan 24, 2023

About 300 km east of Halifax, Nova Scotia, lies a narrow, crescent-shaped sandbar, whose existence has been a bane on shipping for centuries...

Princess May’s Dramatic Grounding

Jan 23, 2023

In August 1910, a Canadian steamship named Princess May ran aground near Sentinel Island, off the coast of Alaska, in the most spectacular ...

Project HARP: The Space Cannon

Dec 16, 2022

When Jules Verne sent three men to the moon in his 1865 novel From the Earth to the Moon , he did so in a projectile fired from a massive gu...

The Gimli Glider

Dec 8, 2022

The American system of measurement and its units—feet, miles, pounds, and gallons—are quite bizarre. They are random, unintuitive and have n...

Painless Parker: The Showman Dentist

Jul 27, 2022

At the Temple University's dental museum in Philadelphia, there is a small section dedicated to one of the most notorious dentist of Ame...

The Ripple Rock Explosion

Apr 13, 2022

Between Vancouver Island and the Discovery Islands in British Columbia, lies a narrow body of water called Seymour Narrows, which is part of...

The 1866 Transatlantic Communications Cable

Apr 5, 2022

Much of today’s lightning speed communication that happens between computer terminals or between mobile phones located in different continen...

The Great Meteor Procession of 1913

Feb 11, 2022

On the night of February 9, 1913, inhabitants of a large portion of the northeastern United States and southeastern Canada witnessed a meteo...

The Salish Wool Dog

Jan 17, 2022

When Spanish explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra (1744-1794) was exploring the Salish Sea and its coasts in 1791, he was astonishe...