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Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Lindbergh baby kidnapper, is sent to the electric ...

Inscrutable to the last, his face ashen gray with horror, Bruno Richard Hauptmann paid with his life at 8:42:45 o'clock tonight or the kidnap murder of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. The lips which held the secret of the happenings of March 1, 1932 ...

Japan clocks keep time for 16 billion years

"Cryogenic optical lattice clocks" are not pretty—they look more like giant stripped-down desktop computers than ordinary wall clocks—but they are so precise that current technology cannot even measure them. The research team led by Hidetoshi Katori, ...

Roger A. Gibboni, 82, engineer

Roger A. Gibboni, 82, of West Chester, an aerospace engineer who helped design spy satellites during the Cold War, died Friday, Nov. 28, of kidney failure at Paoli Hospital. For 33 years, starting in 1960, Mr. Gibboni worked in the aerospace industry ...

Saotome Katsumoto and the Firebombing of Tokyo: Introducing The Great Tokyo ...

I clearly recall being able to read the characters on the wall calendar even though all the lights were out. In the crimson sky, black smoke was gathering in a dense fog and sparks were swirling about. It was a blizzard of sparks. Circling serenely ...

Bringing Music Back Home

And while in recent decades, the emphasis in sound technology has all been on the personal and the portable, on evermore capacious iPods and headphones designed for music on the move, at last the pendulum is swinging back toward music as an If you ...

US War Crimes. The March 1945 Firebombing of Tokyo: America's “Great Tokyo ...

I clearly recall being able to read the characters on the wall calendar even though all the lights were out. In the crimson .. The fires started to die down at about five o'clock in the morning. Dawn broke The skin was tin plate and the bones ...

Bibi Netanyahu and the Myth of the 'Special Relationship'

When the President went to Congress to gain support for pressuring Israel, he was met with a Boehner-esque wall of resistance: the Israel lobby was hard at work shoring up its congressional defenses, and it worked. Congress wouldn't go along with ...