Saturn was an American magazine published from 1957 to 1965. It was launched as a science-fiction magazine, but sales were weak, and after five issues the publisher, Robert C. Sproul, switched the magazine to hardboiled detective fiction that emphasized sex and sadism. Sproul renamed the magazine several times, settling on Web Terror Stories in 1962, and the contents became mostly weird-menace tales—a genre in which apparently supernatural powers are revealed to have a logical explanation at the end of the story. Donald A. Wollheim was the editor for the first five issues; he published material by several well-known authors, including Robert A. Heinlein, H. P. Lovecraft, and Harlan Ellison, but was given a low budget and could not always find good- quality stories. It is not known who edited the magazine after the science fiction issues, but themes of violence, torture and sex continued to the end of the magazine's run. Sproul finally cancelled the title in 1965 after a total of 27 issues.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1692:
Members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe in the Scottish Highlands were massacred allegedly for failing to pledge allegiance to the new monarchs, William III and Mary II. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_Glencoe
1961:
Geode prospectors near Olancha, California, discovered what they claimed to be a 500,000-year-old rock with a 1920s-era spark plug encased within. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coso_artifact
1981:
Sewer explosions caused by the ignition of hexane vapors destroyed more than 13 miles (21 km) of streets in Louisville, Kentucky. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisville_sewer_explosions
2017:
Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong- un, was assassinated using VX nerve agent in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Kim_Jong-nam
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shock stall: (aviation) A stall (“sudden loss of efficiency”) caused when the airflow over an aircraft's wings is disturbed by shock waves that occurs at a specific Mach number when the aircraft is accelerating to transonic speeds. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shock_stall
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