The Coast Guard puts the life expectancy for Swimming in 59-degree-Fahrenheit water at less than two hours. It’s called hypothermia: Abnormally low body temperature, with slowing of physiologic activity.
Recently, I was asked to create a Power-Point presentation for a guest speaker to use in sharing her water-survival story. I had heard bits and pieces of [...]

Soon after Ivan Byvshikh, a 20-year-old Russian intelligence officer, fell in love with the daughter of a German man that he was sent to interrogate at the end of the Second World War, the relationship was brought to an abrupt end.
The Soviet authorities sent him home in 1946 and although they exchanged letters for 10 [...]

On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court issued its landmark Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka ruling, which declared that racially segregated public schools were inherently unequal. (Go to article.)
1792 The New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree on what is now Wall Street.
1829 John Jay, American statesman and [...]