“Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.”
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
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
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant. His landlady complained about the excessive noise he was
In the 1950s, American engineers working in the Middle East – where liquor was frowned
Petroleum as a fuel source is on the wane. We will not have another century
During the summer of 1919, a United States Army Major was assigned to a transcontinental
It was said that the Roman Emperor Caligula once declared war on Neptune, the God
Charles VI of France (1368-1422) was daffy. He thought he was made of glass and
There’s been a lot of talk about who was on the Titanic. How about the
Probably. But then again, it could said the archaeologist examining his corpse might have spilled
One hundred years ago, a rag-tag army of military officers and civilians like these men
From June 6th to 9th, 1912, the most spectacular eruption in recorded history and the
If you live in New York, you will instantly recognize this building. If you don’t
In about 1910, Alaska Gold Rush newspaper editor/printer/investigative reporter George Hinton Henry published scathing but
This is probably the most well-known photograph of the Alaska Gold Rush. There is just
Wilson Mizner, the loveable scoundrel of the Alaska Gold Rush, worked as a bartender in
Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! In 1898, during the Klondike Rush, a young
Some things never change. From the moment of the birth of the internet, the first
Readers do not know how blessed they are. In 1951, this WAS interlibrary loan in
After the Civil War, the field of photography took a deplorable turn. Many families had
There is an old joke that you never have to outrun an angry bear. All
History is sometimes not kind to one’s reputation. A case in point is that of
When hard-core Russian Marxist writer Maxim Gorky came to America, his hosts took him to
A ‘fourth panel’ is a way to transcend an art form. Traditionally, a painting is
A highly-lauded Wyoming mountain man in his day was John Johnson. In fact, he was
Being an off the wall thinker means you come up with novel solution to everyday
I’d like to believe this photoshop. But then, again ……….. My father – like all
