Photograph taken from a balloon, five weeks after the terrible earthquake that struck San Francisco in 1906. From the air shows the devastation caused by the earthquake and subsequent fire to it. The photograph shows the area of ​​Nob Hill Road business district. The Fairmont Hotel in background at left. (Photo courtesy of Harry Myers).

A WORK IN PROGRESS!

A saga from the time travel journals of Franklin Little.

On the 6th of December 1868 the Reno brothers Frank, William and Simon were removed from their cell by a group of vigilantes and then hanged by the mob. A guard that had been shot during a robbery died of his wounds and this infuriated the local population so much that this action was taken.

When the two pilots emerged from the craft shortly afterward, they could barely walk; they had been crammed into a cabin the size of a bathtub for nine days. Not once during those nine days had the team stopped or refueled their delicate aircraft. Col. Richard G. Rutan and Jeana Yeager had just flown around the globe and into aviation history.

At previous performances it seemed that Too had miraculously stopped the initialed bullets in midair by catching them on the plate. He would then offer them to the audience for identification. But events took a different course this time.

Mrs. Kidd’s husband was accused of the torture and murder, 18 months previously, of Albert Clarke, a 71- year- old San Francisco antiques dealer. Kidd’s bloody fingerprints had been found on the murder weapon, an ornate sword. But Mrs. Kidd insisted that her husband had been at home with on the night of the slaying.

A new phase in United States history began on September 11, 2001, when two passenger planes were driven into the Twin Towers in New York City.