KEENE, N.H. — Edwin Chester Hopkins' casket was draped with an American flag that had hung above the state Capitol. Boy Scouts saluted as the motorcade weaved around the colonial town square to the cemetery, where a military bugler readied to play taps in the dappled sunlight of a cool autumn day.

It was a grand funeral, one of the most memorable this New England town had witnessed, for a young man who had perished just past his 19th birthday. All that was lacking were the copious tears one would expect for someone whose death was so tragic and premature. Read More

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Great E-book For Military Enthusiasts. It Has 57 Pages And Contains Rare Information On Combat Engineering Vehicles, Recovery Vehicles, Bridgelayers, Ferrying Systems, Mine Clearing Vehicles And Other Specialized Equipment.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark — The investigation into how an iron gate stolen from the Nazis' Dachau concentration camp in southern Germany ended up in western Norway may be complicated because "no useable evidence" has been found, police said Saturday.

Police spokeswoman Kari Bjoerkhaug Trones says the gate with the cynical slogan "Arbeit macht frei" — "Work sets you free" — was found Nov. 28 under a tarpaulin at a parking lot in Ytre Arna, a settlement north of Bergen, Norway's second-largest city. Read More

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You could say Andrea and Jesse Ybarra of Phoenix, Arizona, were “FC before FC was cool.” Jesse’s first motor vehicle driving experience was in a Jeep FC-150 Forward Control (FC) on the remote desert ranch where he grew up, and the FC-bug has remained in his blood ever since. Today, he and wife Andrea are considered the FC enthusiast group’s best ambassadors and promoters through their events and website (fcconnection.com). So what would the ambassadors drive? Jesse has probably bought, sold, scrapped, restored, and built-up more FCs than anyone, but the project in which he invested most of his time, effort, and hard-earned lessons lately is a ’64 M-679 Forward Control Ambulance. Read More

Four of the Hottest Muscle Cars of 1971: Preview the Amazing Displays You'll Find at the 2016 Muscle Car & Corvette Nationals in Chicago

Check out this feature on 4 muscle cars: 1971 Plymouth Hemi 'Cuda, 1971 Pontiac T-37 455 H.O., 1971 Ford Mustang Super Cobra Jet, and 1971 AMC Javelin AMX.

     Bill Genovese didn’t realize how many people knew his sister’s name until he joined the Marines in 1966. Two years after 28-year-old Kitty Genovese was stabbed to death in Queens while 38 neighbors watched and did nothing — or so the story went — he was in line during boot camp, waiting for a piece of equipment. “Genovese, William,” said the man checking names off a list. “Is your sister Kitty?”

      “And I looked at him like, what?” Genovese recalls 50 years later. Read More

Earlier this year a Wisconsin police offer overheard a lively conversation at his station. The topic was a TV story about the Lucky 7 Ty Cobb tobacco card find in the South. By now, you’ve probably heard that family cleaning out their great grandfather’s house happened upon seven super rare baseball cards in an old paper bag that was about to be discarded. In March four of the baseball cards from the “Lucky 7 Find” sold for an estimated $3 million. The policeman told his colleagues that he owned a baseball artifact that had been hanging for 90 years in a barn on property he bought 10 years ago. Another officer who was a collector did some research and broke the fantastic news: he owned a poster ...Read More

These days, it seems as though all the great classic cars have been discovered and in turn, skyrocketed in value. There are still some hidden gems living in the shadows of more popular cars that are great to drive, and often times, a bargain to buy. Read More

The reason we at Car Craft are celebrating the discovery of a long-neglected or forgotten car is because it represents the mystique that any of us could swing open the doors of an old barn, pole building, or storage unit and find a rare or well-preserved muscle car inside. A lot of attention has been given to barn finds in recent months. They show up at major auctions, and some major car shows have special sections for them.

Any time classic iron gets rescued from obscurity is a good thing, but when ultra-rare muscle comes out of hiding after nearly 40 years, it’s like unearthing a new tomb in the Valley of the Kings. That was the general feeling about this 1969 Boss 429 Mustang when it showed up at Muscle Car Restorations (MCR) of Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, in the summer of 2015. Charles Avery purchased the Boss 9 in March 1973 from a dealer in Fort Worth, Texas, for the unbelievable sum of $1,475. Read More

     The 1927 Yankees had an unbelievable collection of talent that led them a 110-44 regular-season record and World Series victory. The infamous "Murderers' Row" of Earle Combs, Mark Koenig, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Bob Meusel and Tony Lazzeri put up historic offensive numbers, as the team led the American League by a wide margin in both runs scored and run prevention. Read More

     The mummified remains of Lady Sattjeni have been found and they add more to the story of this powerful Egyptian female. Josh King has the story (@bridgetoland). For an overview, Watch More

LONDON (AP) — Archaeologists say they have discovered the oldest handwritten document ever found in Britain among hundreds of 2,000-year-old waxed tablets from Roman London.

Museum of London Archaeology experts say they found more than 400 wooden tablets during excavations in London's financial district for the new headquarters of information company Bloomberg.

So far 87 have been deciphered, including one addressed "in London, to Mogontius" and dated to A.D. 65-80 — the earliest recorded reference to the city, which the Romans called Londinium.

Another is dated Jan. 8, A.D. 57 — Britain's earliest dated hand-written document. Read More

Millions of immigrants came in through Ellis Island from the day it opened in 1892 to the day it closed in 1954. Amateur photographer Augustus Sherman, who worked there as a registry clerk from 1892 to 1925, took hundreds of photos of the new arrivals, often in elaborate traditional dress they had brought with them. He gave the photos simple labels—“Italian woman,” “Scottish boys,” “German stowaway”—that tell the barest of background stories. Courtesy of the Ellis Island Collection at The New York Public Library Digital Collections, here are 12 of Sherman’s portraits of immigrants on their way to a new life in the U.S. Read More

For the Associated Press

CAESAREA, Israel — A chance discovery by two divers uncovered Israel's biggest find of underwater Roman-era artifacts in three decades, archaeologists said Monday as the priceless objects were showcased for the first time.

The treasures were found last month by divers Ran Feinstein and Ofer Raanan when they came across an ancient shipwreck near the port of Caesarea.

Standing next to his diving buddy, Raanan recounted the moment the pair realized they had discovered something special. Read More

    On this second page of the scrapbook is a poem written by Wisconsin poet Henry Reed Conant (?-1923) titled, Faces that are Gone. As the date reflects, this page was probably created in 1892.

    Another clipping shows the poem Our Two Opinions, written by Eugene Field. Field was established in his own rights working for the Chicago Daily News in 1892. His father, Roswell Martin Field (1807-1869) was also well-known. The elder field represented Dred Scott (dates unknown) the slave who sued for his freedom in 1857. (Dred Scott vs. Sandford or the Dred Scott Case). 

As of yet, I have not researched the other poems--maybe someday. Enjoy, Pat

Kacey Deamer for Live Science

A 350-year-old French mystery has been unmasked: In his new book, Paul Sonnino, a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, claims he has uncovered the real identity of the mysterious Man in the Iron Mask.

The Man in the Iron Mask was a prisoner arrested in 1669 and held in the Bastille and other French jails for more than three decades, until his death in 1703. His identity has been an enduring mystery because, throughout his imprisonment, the man's face was hidden by a mask, according to Sonnino. The story was even popularized in the 1998 film "The Man in the Iron Mask," starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

It's a mystery that evaded even famed philosopher Voltaire and writer Alexandre Dumas. Historians have discounted the theory popularized by Voltaire and Dumas that the masked man was the twin brother of Louis XIV, according to Sonnino. Read More

     For a moment, think of every major event that has occurred in your life since 1986 (if you're old enough, of course). Many birthdays have come and gone, children have grown to become adults, and we went from listening to "Rock Me Amadeus" to well... Justin Bieber. In a nutshell, things have changed quite a bit, but not for everything. In 1986, this Aston Martin DBS was rolled into a barn and locked safely away from prying eyes, and for the last 30 years, that is exactly where it has remained, until now. The dusty yet gorgeous Aston will cross the Silverstone Auctions block in May, where it's expected to fetch upwards of £60,000 (about $87,000). New in 1968, it would have cost about £4,470. Read More

By Sam Escobar for Good Housekeeping

1926: BROWBAND

A thin, sometimes jeweled piece of fabric worn around the forehead, this style was dubbed the "headache band" — not exactly an appealing accessory nickname, but it looks so chic! Read More (and Pictures)

Amanda Macias for Business Insider

Shortly before committing suicide in his underground Führerbunker, Hitler stepped outside with an SS officer to survey nearby bomb damage from Allied forces.

On April 30, 1945, Hitler learned that Berlin had fallen into Allied control and that his Third Reich, after 12 years, would inevitably be destroyed. Read More

  Thompson Hudson, Jr. married Anna Cooper in 1877. Together they had nine children. 

I. Rachel Hudson 

2. Dickey Hudson

3. Mary C. Hudson

4. Keziah H. Hudson

5. Margaret S. Hudson

6. Bessie R. Hudson

7. Ida C. Hudson

8. Martha A. Hudson

9. Thompson Hudson III 

This had just enough historical content to make it here onto Passed Time. Besides, who doesn't love "The Shining" and/or a good haunting? Enjoy, Pat

Johanna Li for Inside Edition

One man thought he photographed an empty lobby, but the image he uploaded shows a scene straight out of The Shining.

Henry Yau, a publicist from Houston, said he was inspired to visit The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado after hearing stories of its paranormal past. According to the website, the hotel had been "collecting spirits" since 1872, ....Read More 

By Alan Taylor for The Atlantic

SAN FRANCISCO MISSION DISTRICT BURNING IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE SAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKE OF 1906. THE ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: “PROBABLY FULTON STREET, NEAR GOUGH. THIS WAS THE EDGE OF THE FIRE DISTRICT.” Read More

By Alex Arbuckle for Mashable

     In the last decades of the 19th century, lower Manhattan was a densely packed collection of slums. With waves of immigrants entering the city and land at a premium, landlords bought up buildings and subdivided them into ever smaller partitions, housing dozens of people together in squalid, dark, unventilated rooms. Buildings often covered 90% of a standard 25-by-100-foot lot, with windows and ventilation only at the front and back. Read More