“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 a sight that, sadly, is more than an historic snapshot of the past.
You cannot tell some people to ‘be normal.’ And particularly not a woman in the
One of the most iconic images of the Arctic for tourists is the blanket toss.
Nothing pictures. We all have them. Photographs of, well, nothing in particular. Not worth savings
In the 1870s, America’s foremost – and first – political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, attacked Boss
[huge_it_video_player id="2"] We all makes mistakes, some of the whoppers. Some of those errors in
To this day, one-third of Alaska’s population lives in villages that are not connected to
I’ll bet you didn’t know that Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” was based on a
Far too often people have a Hollywood version of history. In Western movies, the streets
Every generation of Americans has a boogeyman. The ‘evil immigrants’ have included the French, English,
In the days before the automobile, everything you needed came to your local store in
He was known as “Indian Charlie.” His real name was Charles Curtis. And he was
When it comes to the Alaska Gold Rush, cats don’t get a lot of credit.
William Harvey Carney (February 29, 1840 – December 9, 1908) was an African American soldier
The Alaska Gold Rush lasted 40 years, from 1880 to the First World War. It
Petroleum as a fuel source is on the wane. We will not have another century
Sadly, President Trump has killed a time-honored Alaskan institution: fake news. The REAL fake news.
