As many of you know the decathlon is an Olympic track and field event in the modern Olympic Games but over the years was dropped from the list of events. Then, 1948 it was reinstated as an official Olympic event. A young high school athlete named Bob Mathias from Tulare, California won the event for…

Most of you folks have heard of the Minoan Civilization which centered in Crete around 1500 BCE. This piece is specifically about the great earthquake that eventually destroyed that civilization on or around that date. (Perhaps 1517). All of the events connected with this civilization and its demise took place hundreds of years prior to…