Walt Disney haunted by sadness and guilt over losing his mother to a tragic gas leak in a house he bought for her

Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 26, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Getty Images From clever animated films to wildly popular theme parks, Walt Disney is responsible for America’s most enduring cheerful fantasies. But underneath all that bright, happy Technicolor lies a darker truth. The groundbreaking animator was haunted by his seeming responsibility in his own mother’s death. Born … Read more

Barbed wire made possible America’s original social network, when news traveled throughout the countryside on a telephone party line

Courtesy: The Vintage News Dec 26, 2017 E.L. Hamilton Fences are said to make good neighbors. This was especially true on the American frontier in the late 1880s when people talked literally over the wires. It all came about when Alexander Graham Bell’s invention of the telephone collided with the epic fencing of the Great Plains. … Read more

A corned beef sandwich was smuggled into space and that turned out to be not the best idea

Courtesy: The Vintage News Feb 22, 2018 Magda Origjanska In 1965, in the middle of the Gemini 3 mission, astronaut John Young reached into his space suit and pulled out a surprise–he offered a corned-beef sandwich to his crewmate, Gus Grissom. At the time it didn’t cross his mind that this would be the first corned … Read more

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