“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
America has no standards, no royal families, no special people. If you are good and
Ballyhoo. Now here’s a word you don’t hear every day. At least not yet. It’s
If there is any one photograph from Alaska that should send shivers down the spine
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During the Second World War, French singer Edith Piaf was stuck in Paris. To stay
From June 6th to 9th, 1912, the most spectacular eruption in recorded history and the
In the last century, washing machines were too expensive for most homes, so the laundry
In 1887, in Argonia, Kansas, a group of men decided to ‘pull a fast one.’
Today, “horsepower” is a measure of strength of a car. But that has only been
In many parts of the US, women were voting long before August 20, 1920. In
There is an old joke that you never have to outrun an angry bear. All
This was Bishop Rowe in about 1920. No pictures of Billy the Horse exist. During
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
This is one of my favorite editorial pictures. His name is “Has No Horses,” or,
As you are reading this, are being quarantined offshore in San Francisco because they might
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! In 1898, during the Klondike Rush, a young
These were the remains of “Big Nose George” Parrot in 1950, half a century after
