History

You've probably heard of escape rooms where you are part of a group and together you have to solve puzzles to find your way out. There's one in Corpus Christi like no other in the world because this one is aboard the aircraft carrier U.S...

I love TV shows and documentaries about UFOs and the paranormal. I do enter with a healthy amount of skepticism but, the possibilities fascinate me. There's this new series on History Channel called Project Blue Book, which is a dramatization of top-secret investigations of UFOs and strange phenomena conducted by the Air Force, and on tonight's episode, they feature an incident known as the Lubboc

It's the 3rd Monday in January, the day when we honor one of the greatest civil rights leaders our country has ever known, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. King was an advocate of non-violent means to end racial segregation whose national prominence began with a bus boycott as early as 1955...

How long have you lived in the Lone Star state? How much Texas history do you know? I've lived here 22 years and needless to say, I don't know much about our great state. Check out this short video from The History Channel "Bet You Didn't know...

In January of 1929, an artist named Elzie Crisler Segar developed a comic strip called "Thimble Theater" which featured a character named Popeye.  Popeye was a one-eyed, 34-year-old (born in a typhoon in Santa Monica, California), semi-deformed-looking sailor with a severe speech impediment...

The Battleship Texas floating monument was almost not floating anymore according to officials.  Park authorities shut down the monument "until further notice" after crews came in Monday morning and noticed a 15 degree tilt to the main hull of the ship...

If you've always wanted to take your frustrations out by firing one of those huge guns on a tank.....well....you're in luck. They'll even let you drive it too! DriveTanks.com has set up shop on an 18,000 acre ranch in Uvalde, TX (about 2 hours west of San Antonio) and allows you all the thrills of driving and firing real working tanks without having to enlist in the military...

It's hard to believe but on January 8th, 1991, news broke that Def Leppard guitarist Steve Clark had died. An autopsy revealed the Clark died from an unintentional overdose of alcohol, Valium and Codeine.  An autopsy would show swelling of the brain as a main factor.  M...

Last year was a resounding success and this year looks to be even bigger as Jurassic Quest returns to Victoria January 20-22 at the Victoria Community Center. Jurassic Quest is the largest dinosaur event in North America and brings along with it over 80 animatronic, life-sized dinosaurs and takes you on a journey through the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods...

Wow, has technology come a long way.

Their set was recorded and released, but the former Beatles star made one key change.

Martin de Leon is known as the founder of the city of Victoria and Victoria County, and he'll be honored tomorrow (Saturday June 4) with the dedication of a historical marker in Port Lavaca. The marker, which will be unveiled aat the Bauer Exhibit Building at Six mile Park, will be unveiled at 10 a...