“Some things you just can’t make up!”
On July 12, 1855, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some clowns from S. B. Howes' Star
Money does not exist. Only its value does. Go to the bank and ask to see the $1,000 in your
Why Are High Schools Graduating Illiterate Seniors? If you really want to know what is happening in America’s schools, do
Coming Out of the Water Dry (The 1838 Missouri Extermination Order) “The Mormons must be treated as enemies, and must
When Detective Heinz Noonan arrives in Spokane to investigate a simple case of double obituaries, he has no idea he’s
Detective Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Homes,” is sent to Virginia Beach, North Carolina, to find 30 antique Christian crosses that
Why would anyone steal something that has no value? And then stick the insurance company for a ten-million-dollar loss? That’s
How can $2 million in diamonds vanish? First, the diamonds were assessed to make sure they were authentic. Then, in
The Alaska Gold Rush is the least studied era of United States history. If you pull up Alaska Gold Rush
On July 12, 1855, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, some clowns from S. B. Howes' Star
John Baker “Texas Jack” Omohundro, who died at the age of 33, packed a lot
Giovanni Caselli was a priest?! AND a physicist. In 1856, he invented the pantelegraph. In
Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was only 30 years old when the FBI shot him
He was known as “Indian Charlie.” His real name was Charles Curtis. And he was
This was an IBM computer in 1958. 40% of the US population was alive in
Edward Hines. He was a Commissioner of the Wayne County Road Commission in Michigan from
The single, most important reason to read history – ANY HISTORY – is because things
During the Second World War, Lt. Norman Wilkinson of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve came
Anthony "Tony" Dimond, Alaska's lone delegate to the United States Congress from 1933 to 1944,
Like your job? Like your doctor? Have you thanked your grandmother lately? (Or your great-grandmother
It’s easy to say how BAD things are right now: COVID19, race riots, high unemployment,
It is so easy to whine about how 'there's nothing to watch on cable' tonight.
[huge_it_video_player id="5"] To paraphrase Al Jolson, “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!” (If you’re a millennial,
When people think of a gold rush, they instantly think the big money is made
One hundred and 13 years ago, my 19-year-old grandfather arrived in San Francisco on his
Never underestimate the drive to be informed or educated. In the days of the Wild
In 1910, Victor Berger, a founding member of the Socialist Party of America, was elected
As you are reading this, are being quarantined offshore in San Francisco because they might
You would have to have been an Alaskan in the last century to understand the
In 1887, in Argonia, Kansas, a group of men decided to ‘pull a fast one.’
President Calvin Coolidge could be a prankster. He would sometimes page a Secret Service agent.
Actually, they were. In 1749, the Duke of Portland and the Earl of Chesterfield made
