“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
History is sometimes not kind to one’s reputation. A case in point is that of
This is the interior of a real Alaska Gold Rush saloon. It was in Koyukuk
Vicious maneaters, right? Actually that’s incorrect. In fact, the piranha got its reputation because of
It was said that the Roman Emperor Caligula once declared war on Neptune, the God
Like many fashions, high heels have come a long way since the 10th Century when
During the Alaska Gold Rush, it was said of Erwin A. “Nimrod” Robertson that he
I’ll bet you are thinking what I was thinking when I first saw this children’s
At precisely 12:02 pm, a century ago this September 16th, a massive bomb exploded on
Meet Captain James Iredell of the Confederate commercial raider Shenandoah. His assignment was to destroy
The true value of education is keep you from making a fool of yourself
From 1438 to 1532, the Inca Empire covered what is now Peru and Ecuador along
As printed in the Tacoma Evening News on March 3, 1903, C. Payne, an armless
One hundred years ago, a rag-tag army of military officers and civilians like these men
In many parts of the US, women were voting long before August 20, 1920. In
One of the easiest things to do is believe “it can’t happen here.” Well, it
This is one of my favorite editorial pictures. His name is “Has No Horses,” or,
During the Second World War, Lt. Norman Wilkinson of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve came
