Nesbitt notes
Notes to discuss with Greg Nesbitt (nonfiction).
See Nesbitt notes (archive) for older notes.
HUAC and Alice Beta
While newsmen take notes, Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities, proofs and reads his statement replying to Alice Beta's attack on the Committee (Oct. 26, 1938).
Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta says she stands by every word that she has written about the House Un-American Activities Committee and the ENIAC program.
Richard Sharpe Shaver
1975: Author and illustrator Richard Sharpe Shaver dies. He wrote stories in which he claims that he had personal experience of a sinister, ancient civilization that harbors fantastic technology in caverns under the earth.
The June 1947 issue of Amazing Stories featured the "Shaver Mystery" by Richard Sharpe Shaver.
July 22: On This Day in History
1826: Priest, mathematician, and astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi dies. He discovered dwarf planet Ceres.
1827: Gem detective and astronomer Niles Cartouchian discovers time crystals on the dwarf planet Ceres.
July 27: On This Day in History
1973: Math photographer Cantor Parabola takes advance photographs of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee voting to recommend the first article of impeachment against President Nixon.
1974: Watergate scandal (nonfiction): The House of Representatives Judiciary Committee votes 27 to 11 to recommend the first article of impeachment (for obstruction of justice) against President Richard Nixon.
1974: Writer and philosopher Culvert Origenes says that "it's about time the House Judiciary Committee got busy impeaching Nixon."