Old folks like me remember the Edsel. I don’t recall a car from a major company that was such a flop.
November 19, 1959, Ford ends the Edsel program. The last Edsel ad appeared in the Saturday Evening Post on November 21, 1959.
On February 3, 1969, the Edsel Owners Club was incorporated as a non-profit organization for the promotion and restoration of the Edsel automobile. pic.twitter.com/9ECegh2SoE
#OTD in 1959, Ford Motor Co. announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.
Job number 344, the last Edsel to be built, a tan station wagon, rolls off the Ford Motor Company assembly line with no fanfare in Louisville, Ky., Nov. 20, 1959. | Photo H.B. Littell pic.twitter.com/Qv3Qiy7z1J
Planning on watching Titanic to mark the 25th anniversary? The Nazis made their own version back in 1943: it cost millions and led to more fatalities than the real ship. I watched it so you don’t have to. https://t.co/Rpd2P4oRip
An ambitious digital imaging project has produced what researchers describe as a “digital twin” of the Titanic, showing the wreckage of the doomed ocean liner with a level of detail that has never been captured before. https://t.co/z78uOWfVpX
What happened to the Titanic in 1912 is not in question. But a far different story — one full of doubts, skepticism and conspiracy theories — is now circulating online.
September 17, 1862.The Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history. 22,000 Americans dead, wounded or missing by the time it was over.Their racist insurrection failed. It is up to us to honor them and make sure this racist insurrection fails now. http://www.history.com/articles/bat…
Sad! 