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Native American Mythology Combines with Modern Science Author: Graham Masterton Faces contorted after death into exaggerated images of paralyzed, helpless agony, their soul, or spirit, or whatever remains of them, still begs the living for release. Anna Grey already had enough to worry about with the Merrimac School Virus which has become nearly an epidemic when a new disease begins to spread. Supposedly released by bedbugs, the hemorrhaging virus begins as an isolated incident and then grows. Alone, researching in the hospital late at night, Anna sees a patient wheeled in who hemorrhaged to death, vomiting blood and shaking with [...]

Quantum Questions... Author:  A. Douglas Stone While Albert Einstein is popularly regarded as the undisputed “greatest scientist of all time”, his undeniably brilliant legacy is tainted by the fact that later in his life he was vocally opposed to the modern formulation of quantum physics.  The 1921 Nobelist’s oft quoted opinion that God is not “playing at dice” – as well as his fame for the unrelated theory of general relativity and E=mc² – has obscured the fact that he played a pivotal role in the birth of quantum theory.  While he was ascending into the scientific superstar stratosphere during [...]

Barnyard Justice... Author:  Scott Martelle Famous people.  Infamous people.  Ordinary people with a remarkable story.  Any of these can serve as the impetus for a worthy biography.  But sometimes all you’ve got is an ordinary person who just happened to be in the right place at the right time.  Boston Corbett was such a man.  Of modest immigrant origins, his equally humble life was punctuated by a singular event that would place him in the history books forever.  On April 26, 1865, just south of Port Royal, Virginia, Corbett shot John Wilkes Booth in the neck, severing the fugitive’s spinal [...]