“What’s the problem? It’s just a selfie!”
During the Second World War, French singer Edith Piaf was stuck in Paris. To stay
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
During the Second World War, French singer Edith Piaf was stuck in Paris. To stay
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
In the Alaska dog racing biz, there is a prophetic expression: “unless you are the
America has no standards, no royal families, no special people. If you are good and
This is a shot of New York in 1887. What you see are electrical wires
These were the remains of “Big Nose George” Parrot in 1950, half a century after
where the temperature gets all the way down to 65!, in most of Alaska, 65
Henri Matisse did, as a matter of fact. Of his wife. In 1905. When he
One of the nice things about historic photographs – please excuse the pun – is
Alaskan humorist Warren Sitka notes the problem with ignorance is it breeds faster than common
While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt ‘came up empty.’
Just a bunch of Eskimos, right? It’s one of those pictures you’d stumble upon in
In the famous Lincoln-Douglas Debates, Abraham Lincoln’s position on slavery was clear: “I am naturally
The US standard railroad gauge is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. Why? Because the first railroads
Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne was one of the few women warriors.
This is the Culebra Cut during construction of the Panama Canal. The United States Army
After the death of Harry Reichenbach, the leading ballyhooer of the era was Jim Moran,
This is probably the most well-known photograph of the Alaska Gold Rush. There is just
