Building the Lincoln Memorial spanned from 1914 to 1922. An
important part of the memorial is the statue of Lincoln made
of Georgia marble, which was assembled and completed
during the winter of 1919-1920.

The car wreck.

On November 13, 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood was killed in
a car accident near Crescent, Oklahoma, north of Oklahoma City. Silkwood worked as a technician at a plutonium plant operated
by the Kerr-McGee Corporation, and she had been critical of the
plant’s health and safety procedures. In September, she had
complained to the Atomic Energy Commission about unsafe
conditions at the plant (a week before her death, plant monitors
had found that she was contaminated with radioactivity herself),
and the night she died, she was on her way to a meeting with a
union representative and a reporter for The New York Times,
reportedly with a folder full of documents that proved that Kerr-
McGee was acting negligently when it came to worker safety at
the plant. However, no such folder was found in the wreckage
of her car, lending credence to the theory that someone had
forced her off the road to prevent her from telling what she
knew.

(FOX NEWS)

An expedition through an Indonesian mountain range led to
researchers capturing rare video of an endangered species
that hasn’t been spotted in over 60 years.

Researchers with Expedition Cyclops were able to capture
the first-ever photographic evidence of Attenborough’s long-
beaked echidna, a critically endangered egg-laying mammal,
in Indonesia, according to a report from NBC News.

(FOX NEWS)

Bonanza is an Western television series that ran on NBC from
September 12, 1959, to January 16, 1973. Lasting 14 seasons
and 431 episodes, Bonanza is NBC’s longest-running Western,
the second-longest-running Western series on U.S. network
television (behind CBS’s Gunsmoke), and one of the longest-
running, live-action American series. The show continues to
air in syndication.