“You have a problem with AI and want to go back to the ‘Good Old Days?”
This was an IBM computer in 1958. 40% of the US population was alive in
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 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
Stephan Bibrowski, born in Wilczagówa, Poland, in 1890, had a body covered with hair. His
In 1934, eight men were fined $1 each …. … for bathing topless at Coney
In the last century, washing machines were too expensive for most homes, so the laundry
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
During the Second World War, French singer Edith Piaf was stuck in Paris. To stay
If you are older than 50, you will have no problem reading this license plate
Nice, eh? Historic but nice. Well, these are fashions from my great grandparents’ women’s fashion
This is the Kay Linton Memorial Ice Fountain outside the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska.
lice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, didn’t give a whit about the ‘proper
No, it is not THE Louvre. It is the ‘Temporary Louvre,’ a saloon in Juneau
When Coke was introduced in China in 1982, Chinese shopkeepers sold the beverage as kekoukela.
Snazzy home, right? Actually, it’s – or was – a microwave repeater. As late as
Far too often people have a Hollywood version of history. In Western movies, the streets
In 1951, a snippy newspaper columnist suggested Marilyn Monroe would be better off wearing a
François Rabelais, the great French writer of the 1500s, was a master of creative thinking.
One of the untold dramas of the Alaska Gold Rush was the building of the
Every historical era has its acronyms, legends and heroes. If you are a millennial, it
I’ll bet you think you are looking at flowers. WRONG! These are ‘fields’ of abandoned
Constructed to be the entrance to the 1889 World's Fair in Paris, the Eiffel Tower
Eagle, Alaska was one of those communities that could never have been established anywhere else
It’s easy to say how BAD things are right now: COVID19, race riots, high unemployment,
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. This is Wojtek. The bear, that is. He was
It depends on the language you speak. In English, the term gypsy was short for
Courtesy of the Alaska Gold Rush, we have two Alaskan terms in common usage –
