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Book Review: Dopesick

by Beth Macy Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy My rating: 3 of 5 stars I am not even sure where to start on this book. (spoiler alerts ahead) I watched the series with Michael Keaton. It was such a powerful series and so very well. Michael KeatonContinue reading “Book Review: Dopesick”

U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell

History Fact by https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-air-force-reports-on-roswell On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier. Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the dawn of the atomicContinue reading “U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell”

Book Review: The Lies I Tell

The Lies I Tell by Julie Clark My rating: 5 of 5 stars Julie Clark has knocked it out the park again. There are a few story lines in play here, however by the end you see that they all tie back together. You have the Con Woman and the reporter. Each of them haveContinue reading “Book Review: The Lies I Tell”

First Birth Control Pill Available For Purchase

Carl Djerassi Profession: Chemist Nationality:  Biography: Carl Djerassi was a scientist, chemist and author, born in Austria, setting in the US in 1939, to escape Nazi persecution in Europe. Djerassi is most famous for creating the first synthesis of an oral contraceptive pill in 1951, while working for Syntex. A discovery that was to have widespread socialContinue reading “First Birth Control Pill Available For Purchase”

Today In History

FDR Signs the G.I. Bill On June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the G.I. Bill, an unprecedented act of legislation designed to compensate returning members of the armed services—known as G.I.s—for their efforts in World War II. As the last of its sweeping New Deal reforms, Roosevelt’s administration created the G.I. Bill (officially the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act ofContinue reading “Today In History”

U.S. Constitution Ratified 1788

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-constitution-ratified June 21, 1788: New Hampshire becomes the ninth and last necessary state to ratify the Constitution of the United States, thereby making the document the law of the land. By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft aContinue reading “U.S. Constitution Ratified 1788”

Jaws Released in Theaters today in 1975

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/jaws-released-2 On June 20, 1975, Jaws, a film directed by Steven Spielberg that made countless viewers afraid to go into the water, opens in theaters. The story of a great white shark that terrorizes a New England resort town became an instant blockbuster and the highest-grossing film in movie history until it was bested by 1977’s Star Wars. Jaws wasContinue reading “Jaws Released in Theaters today in 1975”

The Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York Harbor 1885

Source: This Day in History – What Happened Today – HISTORY On June 17, 1885, the dismantled Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France to the people of America, arrives in New York Harbor after being shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in 350 individual pieces packed in more than 200 cases. The copperContinue reading “The Statue of Liberty Arrives in New York Harbor 1885”