“He smelled like rotting fish!?”
Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China died in 210 B.C. He was on
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
Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China died in 210 B.C. He was on
There is an ongoing myth that the South was rich because of slavery. Actually, the
Roman history records five widespread Plebian Secessions between 494 and 287 BC.
As a matter of fact, he did. ‘He,’ in this case, was President of the
Yes, it is! Because the British Navy was prohibited from ruling on land, AND there
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
He was James Brown Miller and he was a hired killer, from 1861 until he
The Golden Age of Hollywood glamorized the cowboy and the Wild West. Unfortunately, what appeared
Is it possible to fly the distance of 1 ½ times around the world in
This photo encapsulates me as a writer and an American. As both writer and American,
There’s been a lot of talk lately about who the “real” Americans are. The implication
The greatest power of writing is offering the reader a new perspective. ANYONE can write
In the teens, someone who was incredibly stupid was known as being “as cunning as
This is the Culebra Cut in what would become the Panama Canal. The Panama Canal
Sadly, President Trump has killed a time-honored Alaskan institution: fake news. The REAL fake news.
Just a bunch of camels, right? Yeah, but there is something lurking under those waters.
Alaska bush pilot Archie Ferguson was famous for inventing “The Arctic Bump.” He convinced
Of course, it’s the sphinx. Everyone knows that. Everyone. Since the beginning of time. Really?
In 1951, a snippy newspaper columnist suggested Marilyn Monroe would be better off wearing a
Wanna talk?! Here’s a stunning, historical image that most people would flip on by in
The US standard railroad gauge is 4 feet, 8.5 inches. Why? Because the first railroads
That’s what a patron of P.T. Barnum’s American Museum claimed. And he took Barnum to
America has no standards, no royal families, no special people. If you are good and
One of the givens in the United States is the USPS, United States Postal Service.
When Alaska became a state, there was shortage of coins, particularly in the bush. Most
I’ll bet you are thinking what I was thinking when I first saw this children’s
They’re not. They are Lumbee Indians from North Carolina. On January 18, 1958, James W.
I, as an Alaskan, am outraged some people are giving fake news a bad name.
