“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
25th Infantry Regiment, 1890 At the end of the Civil War, many black Union veterans
On December 31, 1899, Captain John Phillips in command of the SS Warrimoo discovered he
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As a writer, my mantra is “If you don’t have something unique, you have nothing.”
In 1910, Victor Berger, a founding member of the Socialist Party of America, was elected
Wanna party?! This is a photograph of an ‘entertaining’ evening in Koyukuk in 1900, just
As you are reading this, are being quarantined offshore in San Francisco because they might
Just another old photo, eh? Well, old photos hide stunning truths. This is my mother’s
This is a portrait of Bass Reeves. He was the first black Deputy United States
Historians believe that beer – invented in Sumeria around 600 BCE – was brewed by
This is not a photoshop. Yes, there is a river down there. This is Tianmen
As printed in the Tacoma Evening News on March 3, 1903, C. Payne, an armless
When it comes to sexual equality, until 1919 women were not guaranteed the right to
In 1838, Louis Daguerre was experimenting with a new technology called photography in Paris. Compared
During the summer of 1919, a United States Army Major was assigned to a transcontinental
