Source: American Museum of Natural History: •It has been estimated that, worldwide, the total amount of gold ever mined is 152,000 metric tons, only enough to fill 60 tractor trailers. In comparison, each year 907 million metric tons of iron are produced worldwide. This is equivalent to 6,000 times the total gold produced throughout history.… Continue Reading
Children Stealing Money From Their Parents
By Lloyd Reman: How many of us have stolen money from our parents? I know I have – up through perhaps age 8, and I’m not talking about a dime or quarter here or there, I’m talking about $10 to $20 (for a kid growing up in the sixties, that’s a small fortune). For those… Continue Reading
“Baby Face” Nelson
Source: FBI. “Baby Face” Nelson was born Lester M. Gillis on December 6, 1908, in Chicago, Illinois. He roamed the Chicago streets with a gang of juvenile hoodlums during his early teens. By the age of 14, he was an accomplished car thief and had been dubbed “Baby Face” by members of his gang due… Continue Reading
Kennedy-Nixon Presidential Debate — 1960
By Meredith Brower, Discovery Channel: The 1960 presidential debate between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy ushered in a new era of made-for-TV political discourse. When candidates Richard Nixon and John Kennedy stepped in front of cameras in September 1960 for the first televised presidential debate, the world had yet to… Continue Reading
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
By Howard Chua-Eoan of Time Magazine. Thursday, Mar. 01, 2007: On a winter’s night 75 years ago, a child was stolen out of a house in New Jersey. He was no ordinary infant but the “Eaglet,” the 20-month-old son of the aviator Charles Lindbergh, America’s great hero who, just five years before, had become the… Continue Reading
INTERPOL
By INTERPOL: The idea of INTERPOL was born in 1914 at the first International Criminal Police Congress, held in Monaco from 14 to 18 April. This meeting brought together police officers and judicial representatives from 24 countries to find ways to cooperate on solving crimes, notably arrest and extradition procedures, identification techniques and the idea… Continue Reading