It’s been 80 years since the invasion of Normandy. In this entry I share some reflection on this day, in another “straight from my mind to the keyboard” kind of entry.
D-Day 80
Tag: History
40 Years Ago: The Death of The Bell System
40 years ago the largest company in the world died. I regard this event as a tragedy.
Waco
On the 30th anniversary of the fiery end of the Waco Siege, I share my thoughts on the event and the lasting legacy it has had on the nation.
My Top 10 Michael Jackson Songs
A few years ago I wrote an article titled “My Top 10 80’s Songs That Aren’t By Michael Jackson.” That article was written with the intention that I would do a top 10 Michael Jackson song list, and as you can tell from the title, this is that article. Today, June 25th 2019, marks 10 […]
Notre-Dame de Paris: Damaged, But Not Destroyed
Along with history, another subject I’m quite fond of is architecture, and one particular class of building design that captivates me is the “Medieval Gothic” style, predominantly French Gothic architecture, and no building in the world best demonstrates this than Notre-Dame de Paris. The beauty of the building is absolutely indescribable, and it’s been something […]
100 Years Ago: Armistice Day – The End Of World War I
The Great War. The War To End All Wars. World War I. Whatever name it goes by, the conflict which waged in Europe between 1914 and 1918 will go down forever as one of the most pivotal events in human history, rivaled only in magnitude by its successor, World War II. On November 11th, 1918 […]
Here’s Some Random Rocket Launches – Have A Great 4th Of July!
It’s the 4th of July tomorrow and, being quite honest, I had nothing quite planned to write today or tomorrow. However, to keep up with the spirit of Xadara, my love of space, and in a classic “Happy Birthday America” bit of patriotism, I’ve decided to just flood you with some random rocket launches in […]
25 Years Ago – The End of the Soviet Union
It’s by a strange coincidence that I would write a small article late yesterday about the city of Pripyat, Ukraine – the city where the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was located. It’s explosion is one of many events that is called “the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union” and while writing that article […]
About That Election Tomorrow
In case you have been living under a rock, there is an election tomorrow, and ya know what? It sucks. The candidates are terrible. The entire process getting us to this stage has been horrible. I don’t get political here on Xadara, and I’m not about to go into details – it’s too late for […]
On That Day, 15 Years Ago…
We had been back in school for just about a Month. It was early in my Junior year, and it seemed like a pretty typical Tuesday. I don’t recall getting ready that day, but it is funny the things you do remember. In my case, I recall us on the bus discussing the upcoming episode […]
Apollo 11 – Landing from PDI to Touchdown
Today, July 20th, 2016, marks 47 years since Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. It’s an event that everyone knows of, but, as historically significant as it was, was just a test flight – the later Apollo landings were the real missions of science and exploration that Apollo was born to execute, but 11, that […]
World War One First Person Shooter Verdun is Coming to the Xbox One and Playstation 4
World War One, by all accounts I’ve heard, would be the closest thing to “Hell on Earth” that has ever happened in human history. In many ways, it was the first true “modern” war, and in an equal number of ways was the last “traditional” war. The Verdun video game is based on the events […]
The Chernobyl Disaster: 27 years later
It was during the early morning hours of April 26th, 1986. The governing bodies within the Soviet Union wanted to conduct another test of the backup power systems of one of it’s nuclear power plants; Namely, the the V.I. Lenin Nuclear Power Station, located near the city of Chernobyl, in the northern Ukraine. It was […]
5 Years of Xadara: Part 3
[Yes, I know this post is long overdue. Sorry about that: as usual life has it’s way of taking up time. That, and Terraria] So, by this time, it was coming up on 2010. Xadara was several years old, but had also grown stagnant. Very little conversation was happening on the forums, and while the […]
A little retrospective is a good thing…
Recently, I have been listening to music that I listened to back a decade ago, when I was in High School. Many of these bands I have not really listened to since then, so it was refreshing, in a way to go back to familiar tracks that I was not burnt out on listening to. […]