“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
[huge_it_video_player id="2"] We all makes mistakes, some of the whoppers. Some of those errors in
Far too often people have a Hollywood version of history. In Western movies, the streets
where the temperature gets all the way down to 65!, in most of Alaska, 65
In the last century, washing machines were too expensive for most homes, so the laundry
President Calvin Coolidge could be a prankster. He would sometimes page a Secret Service agent.
Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. This is Wojtek. The bear, that is. He was
Nothing pictures. We all have them. Photographs of, well, nothing in particular. Not worth savings
Just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, a booming metropolis of 26,255 in 2010,
Until the movie PATTON, in 1970, General George S. Patton, was largely a forgotten hero.
Truth is NOT a matter of perspective. What is true remains the same from every
Courtesy of the Alaska Gold Rush, we have two Alaskan terms in common usage –
Yes, there’s a good chance the ‘stuff’ in the bottle is whiskey. But then again,
Henri Matisse did, as a matter of fact. Of his wife. In 1905. When he
This was Bishop Rowe in about 1920. No pictures of Billy the Horse exist. During
All Roman roads had mileage stones, set one thousand paces apart. The term “mile” comes
You would have to have been an Alaskan in the last century to understand the
In the Alaska dog racing biz, there is a prophetic expression: “unless you are the