Military Brass Sit Atop Egypt Pyramid

‘Now what is [Vice President] Omar Suleiman’s position? No one knows that he remains in his position as vice president. The government of course is going to be changed. But the top brass, all of the members of this military council, [are] all very close...

Intro: Alphabet Agencies

Alphabet Agencies CFR, NSA, EPA, CIA, FCC, FTC, CDC, WTF, OMG!  Ironically, the intention behind these acronyms is usually the opposite of its public facing name. Central Intelligence Agency Federal Bureau of Investigation Department of Homeland Security Interpol KGB...
Jonathan Widom

Jonathan Widom

Jonathan Widom, 55, died July 18 of an apparent heart attack. He was a professor of Molecular Biosciences in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Widom focused on how DNA is packaged into chromosomes — and the location of...
Zachary Greene Warfield

Zachary Greene Warfield

Zachary Greene Warfield, 35, died July 4 in a boating accident on the Potomac River. Zack was a co-founder and a member of the Board of Directors for Omnis, Inc., a McLean, VA-based strategic consulting firm for the intelligence, defense and national security...
Fanjun Meng & Chunyang Zhang

Fanjun Meng & Chunyang Zhang

Fanjun Meng, 29, and Chunyang Zhang, 26, drowned in a Branson hotel swimming pool. Both were from China and working in the anatomic pathology lab at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Meng was a visiting scholar and his wife, Zhang, was a research specialist,...
Rodger Lynn Dickey

Rodger Lynn Dickey

Rodger Lynn Dickey, 56, died from an apparent suicide Mar. 18 after he jumped from the Gorge Bridge. Dickey was a senior nuclear engineer with over 30 years of experience in support of the design, construction, start-up, and operation of commercial and government...
Gregory Stone

Gregory Stone

Gregory Stone, 54, died from an unknown illness Feb. 17. Stone, who was quoted extensively in many publications internationally after the BP oil leak, was the director of the renowned Wave-Current Information System. Stone quickly established himself as an...
Bradley C. Livezey

Bradley C. Livezey

Bradley C. Livezey, 56, died in a car crash Feb. 8 2011. Livezey knew nearly everything about the songs of birds and was considered the top anatomist. Livezey, curator of The Carnegie Museum of Natural History, never gave up researching unsolved mysteries of the...
Dr. Massoud Ali Mohammadi

Dr. Massoud Ali Mohammadi

Dr. Massoud Ali Mohammadi, 50, was assassinated Jan. 11, 2011 when a remote-control bomb inside a motorcycle near his car was detonated. This professor of nuclear physics at Tehran University was politically active and his name was on a list of Tehran University staff...
John (Jack) P. Wheeler III

John (Jack) P. Wheeler III

John (Jack) P. Wheeler III, 66. last seen Dec. 30, 2010 was found dead in a Delaware landfill. He fought to get the Vietnam Memorial built and served in two Bush administrations. His death has been ruled a homicide by Newark, Del. police. Wheeler graduated from West...