“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
This is called a sport fishing fantasy. But you have to be careful with fantasies.
There is an old joke that you never have to outrun an angry bear. All
In 1912, so many Americans were furious with both the Democratic and Republican parties that
In the last century, washing machines were too expensive for most homes, so the laundry
As printed in the Tacoma Evening News on March 3, 1903, C. Payne, an armless
This is one of my favorite editorial pictures. His name is “Has No Horses,” or,
It depends on the language you speak. In English, the term gypsy was short for
My father, a Holocaust refugee, spoke four language fluently and read Greek and Latin. But
Alaska bush pilot Archie Ferguson was famous for inventing “The Arctic Bump.” He convinced
Alaskan humorist Warren Sitka is famous for his admonition that humanity is best served by
After the Civil War, the field of photography took a deplorable turn. Many families had
Keep this photograph in mind next time you go to your local store and buy
My father was an Italian Jewish Holocaust refugee. He arrived in New York on the
After the death of Harry Reichenbach, the leading ballyhooer of the era was Jim Moran,
To this day, one-third of Alaska’s population lives in villages that are not connected to
Sadly, President Trump has killed a time-honored Alaskan institution: fake news. The REAL fake news.
This is as Alaskan as you can get. What you are seeing is a line
In today’s dollars, the United States government spent $7.5 billion to build the Alaska Railroad
This is one of those “Really?!” photographs. This is actually an excellent representation of our
St. Audry – also known as Æthelthryth (or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe; 4 March 636 – 23
In 1887, in Argonia, Kansas, a group of men decided to ‘pull a fast one.’
