Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954.HistoryLink.org Essay 5136Printer-Friendly FormatOn April 15, 1954, Bellingham, Seattle and other Washington communities are in the grip of a strange phenomenon — tiny holes, pits, and dings have seemingly appeared in the windshields of cars at an unprecedented rate. Initially thought to be the work of vandals, the pitting rate grows so quickly that panicked residents soon suspect everything from cosmic rays to sand-flea eggs to fallout from H-bomb tests. By the next day, pleas are sent to government officials asking for help in solving what would become known as the Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic.
HistoryLink Essay: Windshield pitting incidents in Washington reach fever pitch on April 15, 1954.
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19-year-old inventor Ben J. Poss Gulak demonstrates the Uno, his battery-powered, gyroscope stabilized “motorcycle.”
Uno and only — chicagotribune.com
Penguin have a new 007 imprint devoted to Bond novels. They will be releasing a new Bond novel written by Sebastian Faulks writing as Ian Fleming. Not sure how that will work! It is called Devil May Care and the cover is very striking.
Other interesting books out this month: Breath by Tim Winton; The accidental sorcerer by K E Mills; The seance by John Harwood; The big little book of happy sadness by Colin Thompson; Lamplighter, Monster Blood Tattoo book 2 by D M Cornish.
Screenshots for Tomb Raider Underworld are now available. They look just as exotic as the ones for TR8. Tomb Raider Underworld continues the storyline from TR8 and sees Lara enter the Mayan underworld. Due for release Christmas this year, on almost all platforms, including the Wii!
Boomerang is now showing episodes of Fraggle Rock ! Hopefully you remember this excellent 80′’s children’’s show by Jim Henson . It is on every day at the moment (if you have Foxtel of course).
