Actually, it’s one of the most important documents in history.

Document?

Correct, it’s a document in the form of a cylinder. It’s the CHARTER OF HUMAN RIGHTS drafted by Cyrus the Great of the Persian Empire in 539 B. C. E.

Those rights included the freeing of all slaves, the freedom to choose your own religion, and racial equality. 

Exactly what was needed in the multicultural, multiracial Persian Empire.

Humm, where have we heard about those rights before? 

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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The most popular boogey man right now is AI.

AI, “Artificial Intelligence” is supposed to be the ruin of our culture.

Really?

Here’s a concept to keep in mind. 

“Technology is a dragon. If you run from it, you will be incinerated. If you fight it, you will be eaten. To survive it, you must ride it.”

Technology creates ten times more jobs than it extinguishes.

If you do not welcome the technology, you will end up no better now that you were a century ago.

If you could, ask this man if he doesn’t want mechanized ore carts, health insurance, and union representation.  

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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There are a lot of myths ‘running around’ when it comes to blacks and the military.

One is that there were no black soldiers on the front lines in World War I or World War II, that blacks were ‘behind the real fighting,’ and only doing noncombatant duties like being truck drivers.

Not true. The 369th Infantry Regiment, known as the Harlem Hellfighters, was involved in front line combat in World War I. 

It spent 191 days in front line trenches and suffered the most losses of any Allied combat unit – and was the first unit to cross the Rine.

And, of course, they were never honored for their service.

Wrong!

There was a parade in their honor in New York on February 17, 1919. 

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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Seen this before, right?

Well, did you notice the bundles of twigs beneath both his hands?

Those are known as fasces, and were the symbol of power in the Roman Republic.  They are usually shown with a plaque that reads SPQR, the ‘Senate and People of Rome.’

The symbolism is as old as the cave. 

It is easy to break one twig but, in a bundle, they are unbreakable.

The point being that ‘we’ are better when we work together.

Gee, who might profit from that aphorism? 

 Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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Actually, it doesn’t.

Anytime there is a new technology, you can be assured there will be some wily coyotes who will scheme to make a buck.

They are the ‘snake oil salespeople’ of the next generation.

Did I tell you about cryptocurrency?

 Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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In 1951, a snippy newspaper columnist suggested Marilyn Monroe would be better off wearing a potato sack.

So, she did!

72 years later, we’re still talking about Marilyn Monroe.

And who was that newspaper columnist?

For the record, in the 1950s, the hottest nightclub in Los Angeles, The Mocambo, refused to book Ella Fitzgerald to perform because she was black.

In the words of Ella Fitzgerald,

I owe Marilyn Monroe a real debt… she personally called the owner of The Mocambo, and told him she wanted me booked immediately, and if he would do it, she would take a front table every night. The owner said yes, and Marilyn was there, front table, every night. The press went overboard. After that, I never had to play a small jazz club again. She was an unusual woman, a little ahead of her times. And, she didn’t know it.”.

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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Probably.

But then again, it could said

the archaeologist examining his corpse

might have spilled some of their supply.

But there was also tobacco in the stomach of the cadaver.

But the “New World,” the source for both cocaine and tobacco,

was not discovered until 1492.

And Ramses II died in 1213 BC.

Hummmmmmm

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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When hard-core Russian Marxist writer Maxim Gorky came to America, his hosts took him to the beach in Coney Island and then to a massive playground where people were being whizzed around on wires.

Then they took him to some museums, circus performances, mazes, and other entertainment venues.

They took him to a museum of freaks, a palace of jugglers, and entertained him with dancing ladies and living statuaries.

When he was asked how he liked American capitalism, he replied, “What a sad people you must be!” 

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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Nome has no forests so if you need to build a home with local material, you use sod.  This home is called a barabara by the Inupiat, the local Natives.

Is it comfortable?

It better be!  Nome is ice-locked for eight months a year!

During the Alaska Gold Rush, if you were in Nome on September 15th, you would be there until next June.

Today you can fly from the open waters of the North Pacific in about two hours.

In 1905, that open water was 700 miles from Nome. 

Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.)  An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

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