{"id":238,"date":"2007-06-09T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-09T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=238"},"modified":"2007-06-09T16:37:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-09T16:37:00","slug":"historical-perspective-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vyrdolak.com\/wordpress\/?p=238","title":{"rendered":"Historical perspective…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Okay, I just have to share this, it’s giving me too much ironic humor.<\/p>\n

As part of the research for my next novel, which I am finally<\/u> getting seriously to work on finishing, I subscribed to an online newspaper archive service–which has proven to be exactly<\/u> what I needed. Perusing the Lowell Sun<\/i> for June 11, 1953–right after the big tornado hit Worcester, MA–I spotted this UP item on the front page:<\/p>\n

“ATOMIC BOMB NOT TO BLAME FOR TORNADOES
Rep. Van Zandt withdraws claims against scientists”<\/p>\n

Gee…sound familiar??? Yes, folks, 54 years before all the debate about global warming and its possible effects on hurricanes, there was a fierce argument about whether nuclear weapons testing was increasing severe weather! (Was it? I don’t know…but believe it or not, before one of the big tests, scientists speculated that the bomb might literally set fire to earth’s entire atmosphere.<\/i> They exploded it anyway! The Defense Department, ya gotta love ’em! *wry look*)<\/p>\n

That’s a great benefit to writing historical fiction: it helps you keep your sense of perspective. Americans have a historical memory of about 10.3 days, tops, and there are advantages to be reminded that there’s nothing new under the sun, after all.<\/p>\n

This site has periodicals and newspapers going back several centuries, if anyone doing historical fiction thinks they might find it useful. Newspaper Archive<\/a>. I only mention it as a possible resource, it is a for-pay site and it does have a BBB record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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