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Oddly Enough: March 2014
By Russell Miller The Sea Wasp, or Box Jellyfish can grow as many as 60 6-foot tentacles and its hood can reach the size of a 5-gallon bucket. It is so transparent that it barely casts a shadow. It is...
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Oddly Enough: April 2014
By Russell Miller The quest for greater firepower has produced some sophisticated inventions over the years. One rather unusual weapon was the Puckle Gun, named for its English inventor, James Puckle,...
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Oddly Enough: May 2014
By Russell Miller Caught in a hurricane while sailing around the Cape of Good Hope in 1889, a clipper ship called Ananuac began to come apart at the seams and sink. Shortly after the captain decided to...
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Oddly Enough: June 2014
Millions of years ago, in the ancient waters of Earth, strange fish swam, including bony fish such as the Gorgonichthys. This bony plated placoderm is believed to have been a predator and reached...
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Oddly Enough: July 2014
By Russell Miller The transcontinental railroad built in the United States in the 1860s was a remarkable engineering feat unlike anything else to that point in history. Equally amazing was the fact...
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Oddly Enough: August 2014
By Russell Miller Sterile wound dressing has always been a serious problem, especially on the battlefield. Burns can prove particularly stubborn because dressings must be revisited so many times to...
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Oddly Enough: September 2014
Buffalo Bill (William Frederick) Cody is known for his frontier daring as well as his showmanship. But, before he gained his reputation as a skilled hunter and scout, he suffered the failure of a hotel...
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Oddly Enough: October 2014
Referred to as the Taningia Danae, this hefty squid has no common name. It can reach lengths of 7 feet and weigh nearly 150 pounds. They are apparently a favorite food of Sperm Wales. Unlike most...
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Oddly Enough: November 2014
When frogs hibernate, they stop breathing as they normally do and, instead, take in air through their skin. Frogs can be found throughout the world in a variety of shapes and sizes. some frogs are used...
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Oddly Enough: December 2014
Dr. William Christmas, a man of considerable ego and self delusion,decided in the early 1900s that airplane wings should be flexible and not rigid. Amazingly, he managed to get financial backing to...
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Oddly Enough: January 2015
By Russell Miller Garfish can reach lengths of 10 feet and weigh more than 300 pounds. They feed on nearly any animal they can catch, including waterfowl. So tough are their scales that early people...
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Oddly Enough: February 2015
By Russell Miller Harry Houdini, known primarily as an illusionist and magician, was perhaps the greatest escape artist who ever lived. Although in his early career, while traveling with a medicine...
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Oddly Enough: March 2015
By Russell Miller The Sea Snake (a member of the cobra family, of which there are nearly 60 species) can grow to the length of 9 feet. Their posterior bodies are flattened, allowing them to swim with...
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Oddly Enough: April 2015
By Russell Miller Frog-eating bats are found throughout Central and South America. Their primary targets are the Tungara frogs found in ponds and the still waters of rivers and creeks. Hunting in the...
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Oddly Enough: May 2015
By Russell Miller In 1870, a German immigrant family named Bender moved near a small town called Cherryvale, Kansas. They established an inn and eating establishment for travelers heading West. Katie...
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Oddly Enough: June 2015
By Russell Miller On the same date – December 5, in 1664, 1785, and 1860 – a ship sank in the Menai Strait near North Wales. In every one of these instances, there was only one survivor. ODDLY ENOUGH...
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Oddly Enough: July 2015
By Russell Miller On December 8, 1942, two American pilots sighted a bullet-riddled P-40 fighter plane with old, outdated markings flying over China from the direction of Japan. A bloody pilot, slumped...
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Oddly Enough: August 2015
By Russell Miller Alien Hand Syndrome is a rare and unusual phenomena of the human brain. Generally brought on by injury or disease, it was first named and recorded by Dr. Goldstein of Germany in 1908....
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Oddly Enough: September 2015
By Russell Miller The Flower Urchin, like most sea urchins, is covered with short spines that are non-venous. Between these spines are delicate little structures that resemble flowers, hence the name,...
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Oddly Enough: October 2015
By Russell Miller The modern nautilus is about 1 foot long, but it had ancestors whose shells measured 15 feet across. Some of these animals have as many as 90 arms, and although they lack the suckers...
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