In the early afternoon of Sept. 11, 1973, with Chile’s presidential palace in the pall of a coup d’tat’s smoke and gunfire, President Salvador Allende, the world’s first democratically elected Marxist President, bid his country farewell in a radio address and, after ordering the palace defenders to surrender, entered the Independence Hall alone
Tag Archives: mystery
Consumer Technology: What Gadget News to Expect in 2011
First, a disclaimer: unlike some of my tech-pundit peers, I don’t claim to be uncannily prescient.
The World: Allende’s Last Day
Mystery has surrounded the last moments of Chile's late President Salvador Allende Gossens ever since his violent death during a bloody rightist coup that toppled his three-year-old Marxist regime .
A Giant Hidden Planet In Our Own Solar System?
The quest for Planet X always starts out with celestial objects behaving badly. Astronomers notice that a known planet, or a bunch of comets, begin moving in ways Newton’s laws of motion can’t explain
Does Heaven Exist?
Lo! I shall tell you a mystery.
Decoding Cancer
Treating cancer is a bit like shooting in the dark.
The Nocebo Effect: The Flip Side of Medicine’s Placebos
If any pill has been shown undeniably to work in clinical trials, it is the sugar pill, along with its close cousin, the sham treatment.
Inside team Force India
The inner workings of a Formula One team are normally shrouded in mystery, with constructors keen to keep technical innovations — which provide the edge on raceday — secret from their competitors.
European air safety agency orders Airbus part checked
A small part that tells computers on some highly-automated Airbus aircraft how fast the plane is flying became a concern again Wednesday. European aviation authorities ordered airlines to check “pitot tubes” that have come under suspicion since the crash of Air France Flight 447 in the Atlantic Ocean in June
Teen who cries blood gets help from experts
Calvino Inman had just stepped out of the shower one evening in May when a glimpse of his reflection in the mirror caused him to panic. “I looked up and saw myself, and I thought I was going to die,” says the 15-year-old from Rockwood, Tennessee