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The Devil's Triangle  also Known as "Bermuda Triangle" The Bermuda Triangle is a mythical section of the Atlantic Ocean roughly bounded by Miami, Bermuda and Puerto Rico where dozens of ships and airplanes have disappeared. Unexplained circumstances surround some of these accidents, including one in which the pilots of a squadron of U.S. Navy bombers became disoriented while flying over the area; the planes were never found. Other boats and planes have seemingly vanished from the area in good weather without even radioing distress messages. But although myriad fanciful theories have been proposed regarding the Bermuda Triangle, none of them prove that mysterious disappearances occur more frequently there than in other well-traveled sections of the ocean. In fact, people navigate the area every day without incident. LEGEND OF THE BERMUDA TRIANGLE The area referred to as the Bermuda Triangle, or Devil’s Triangle, covers about 500,000 square miles of...

ENIAC , in full  Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer , the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States. In the United States, government funding during the war went to a project led by John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and their colleagues at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania; their objective was an all-electronic computer. Under contract to the army and under the direction of Herman Goldstine, work began in early 1943 on ENIAC. The next year, mathematician John Von Neumann—already on full-time leave from the Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS), in Princeton, N.J., for various government research projects (including the Manhattan Project)—began frequent consultations with the group. ENIAC was something less than the dream of a universal computer. Designed for the specific purpose of computing values for...