Yes, scammers can use QR codes to steal your personal information
QR codes have become a way for scammers to hide malicious links since they can’t be read by the human eye. Here’s how to spot these scams. Have you ever received an unsolicited message with a Quick Response (QR) code? One of our VERIFY readers did and asked the team if a scammer was targetingContinue reading “Yes, scammers can use QR codes to steal your personal information”
1972 U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian Space Station
On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-made satellite ever to orbit the Earth. This historic moment of cooperation between former rival space programs was also the 100th human space mission in American history. At the time, Daniel Goldin, chief of the National Aeronautics and SpaceContinue reading “1972 U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian Space Station”
Crime: A teenage girl’s boyfriend murders her parents
June 28, 1975 Police are called to the home of Jim and Naomi Olive in Terra Linda, California, after Jim Olive’s business partner reports that the couple has not been seen in a week. The house in disarray, officers found no sign of either the Olives or their adopted teenage daughter Marlene. However, Marlene turned upContinue reading “Crime: A teenage girl’s boyfriend murders her parents”
Treaty of Versailles
The treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. The peace treaty to formally end the war between Germany and the Allies was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of Paris in 1919. Treaty negotiations were dominated by the ‘big four’ French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, Italian PrimeContinue reading “Treaty of Versailles”
President Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea
June 27, 1950 On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announces that he is ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist North Korea. The United States was undertaking the major military operation, he explained, to enforce a United Nations resolution calling for an end to hostilities,Continue reading “President Truman orders U.S. forces to Korea”
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”
Happy Birthday Today!
Happy Birthday to Meryl Streep, Cyndi Lauper, Elizabeth Warren, and my fave: Kurt Warner!
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