May 24, 2013

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Where did Columbus land?

Posthumous portrait of Christopher Columbus

Where did Columbus Land? The National Geographic Society funded a one million dollar study that proposed the island of Samana Cay as the landing site.

Honduran Rain of Fish

Rain of Fish by Olaus Magnus

National Geographic supposedly sent a team to Honduras to investigate the Rain of Fish in the 1970s. They confirmed that the event was taking place and attempted to explain it.

Where’s Amelia Earhart?

Amelia-Earhart_250

From National Geographic: What really happened to Amelia Earhart? Was she spying for America when her plane vanished over the Pacific? Was she captured? Could she have survived? View the latest efforts in discovering what happened to this famous aviator.