On December 6, 1884, an aluminum capstone was set atop the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.. (In the 1880s, aluminum was still rare and considered precious.) At 555 feet, this made it the tallest man-made structure in the world, overtaking Cologne Cathedral. — December 6, 1534: Quito, Ecuador, was founded by Spanish colonists on the ruins of an Incan city. — And on December 6, 1917, the French munitions cargo ship SS Mont Blanc collided with Norwegian SS Imo in the harbor of Halifax, Canada. The resulting explosion killed at least 1,700 and injured more than 9,000 people. This event…

Armed Citizen® Today Around 7 a.m. on Nov. 7, 2025, near Los Angeles, a 79-year-old Vietnam War veteran heard his duplex tenant screaming. He found a naked 30-year-old man had forced his way into the woman’s home. The veteran confronted the intruder and ordered him to leave, but the naked man instead attacked, slamming him to the ground and breaking both of his legs. Fortunately, the veteran was armed and was able to transfer his firearm from his pinned right arm to his left and fire three shots at the assailant, killing him. The armed citizen was in stable condition…

00:00:03 Speaker 1: Smell off now, lady, Welcome to Meat Eater Trivia Podcast. 00:00:27 Speaker 2: Hey, everybody, welcome to met Eater Radio Live. As always, It’s eleven am on Thursday here at meat Eater HQ and Wintry Bozeman, Montana. It’s eight am and Maui, where it’s currently about seventy five degrees, which sounds pretty nice. 00:00:44 Speaker 3: It would be nice to be out. 00:00:45 Speaker 2: There hunting pigs and access steer and shorts and a T shirt. But anyway, I’m your host, Brody. I’m joined today by Jannis and Randall, you know these guys. Today we’re…

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My goal in the essay is to use a well-known historical precedent to illustrate the U.S. Federal government’s untenable indebtedness predicament. Spain, 1500-1590 In 1500, the New World had just recently been discovered, and Spain had just recently forced the Moorish invaders from the Iberian Peninsula. Expanding their army, expanding their navy, and the lengthy campaign to kick out the Moors had been expensive for the Spanish crown. They also needed to maintain a large army to keep the Islamic North Africans from returning. There were also the expenses of building and supplying a large fleet of ships, in the…

On December 5th, 771, Charlemagne became the sole King of the Franks after the death of his brother Carloman. Geneticists have estimated that the majority of modern Europeans and Americans of European descent are distantly related to Charlemagne, who fathered 18 children. — And on December 5th, 1964, the first Medal of Honor awarded to a serviceman for action in Vietnam was presented to Captain Roger Donlon of Saugerties, New York. Captain Donlon and his Special Forces team were manning Camp Nam Dong, a mountain outpost near the borders of Laos and North Vietnam. — Today’s feature piece is a…

Since I began my dedicated exploration of the American handgun marketplace years ago, things have changed. What was once a much more diverse selection of action types, sizes, frame materials and calibers seems to have been washed away by a tidal wave of compact, striker-fired, polymer-framed semi-automatics chambered in 9 mm. These are certainly useful defensive pistols with dozens of configurations from a variety of manufacturers. But it seems like what was true for Ford’s Model T back in 1914 is now the case for modern handgun fans. You can have any color you want, just as long as it’s…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: You just ride around with some binoculars. You catch these and some of these bulls, I mean big, like imagine a bucking bull like as bigger, not bigger, if not bigger than that bison out there sharp porn’s never seen a human. You ride in, catch it and it’s trying to kill you, and these guys will rope it, tie it down like it’s a calf. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: At a rodeo. 00:00:22 Speaker 3: What’s the process for that? 00:00:24 Speaker 1: I mean, you find it. You get on top of a hill, you scan…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the white Tail Woods presented by first Light, creating proven versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle or blind. First Light, Go Farther, Stay Longer, and now your host, Mark Kenyon, Welcome to the. 00:00:20 Speaker 2: Wired to Hunt podcast. 00:00:22 Speaker 3: This week on the show, I’m joined by Eric Clark and Derek Melcorp of the Okayist Hunter podcast to discuss ten simple steps to follow to become a happier and more satisfied deer hunter. All right, welcome back to the Wired Hunt podcast,…

00:00:00 Speaker 1: The plan was simple a week of elk hunting in Montana’s backcountry, but somewhere between the trailhead into the Crazy Mountains and the first snowfall, Aaron Hedges vanished. His friend said he’d gone off on his own, and searchers later found his boots neatly placed beside a firing. What happened next would baffle investigators and fuel a decade of theories about how and why Aaron died within a quarter mile of being rescued. That’s next on Blood Trails. There are many strange things about the disappearance of Aaron Hedges, but one of the strangest is why he…