Mark Twain
Next time you pull up to a gas station, think how much easier you life
You don’t need a crystal ball to see the future; just follow the money! Every issue in human history has
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
Next time you pull up to a gas station, think how much easier you life
No, and he’s not scratching anything. ‘Back in the day,’ which started with the Greeks,
For as long as there have been people in Connecticut, the gods of Machimoodus have
Quoting Google: In May 2021, Italian artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial” sculpture titled
The only buffalo in the United States are in zoos. Here we have bison. That’s
Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China died in 210 B.C. He was on
There is an ongoing myth that the South was rich because of slavery. Actually, the
Roman history records five widespread Plebian Secessions between 494 and 287 BC.
Sometimes it is the ‘little things’ that tell the “big story.’ As an example, here,
All Roman roads had mileage stones, set one thousand paces apart. The term “mile” comes
During the Alaska Gold Rush, George Hinton Henry, the “Father of Alaska Journalism,” kept printing
My father was an Italian Jewish Holocaust refugee. He arrived in New York on the
The Golden Age of Hollywood glamorized the cowboy and the Wild West. Unfortunately, what appeared
America has no standards, no royal families, no special people. If you are good and
Henri Matisse did, as a matter of fact. Of his wife. In 1905. When he
One of the givens in the United States is the USPS, United States Postal Service.
During the Alaska Gold Rush there was no liquor in Alaska. According to the United
In Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush, Scurvy Bill, Two Tooth Mike and Half-Kid, stole
During the Second World War, Lt. Norman Wilkinson of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve came
You think this flu season is bad? Not a chance! 100 years ago, America suffered
When it comes to the Alaska Gold Rush, cats don’t get a lot of credit.
Eagle, Alaska was one of those communities that could never have been established anywhere else
Until 1933, there was no standard American currency. Even though there were American coins in
One hundred and 13 years ago, my 19-year-old grandfather arrived in San Francisco on his
People ask me why I titled my book WALRUS WITH A GOLD TOOTH. Because there
