Mark Twain
Next time you pull up to a gas station, think how much easier you life
You don’t need a crystal ball to see the future; just follow the money! Every issue in human history has
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
Next time you pull up to a gas station, think how much easier you life
No, and he’s not scratching anything. ‘Back in the day,’ which started with the Greeks,
For as long as there have been people in Connecticut, the gods of Machimoodus have
Quoting Google: In May 2021, Italian artist Salvatore Garau sold an “immaterial” sculpture titled
The only buffalo in the United States are in zoos. Here we have bison. That’s
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.
This is not photoshop. It is ‘law and order’ during the Alaska Gold Rush. There
Like your job? Like your doctor? Have you thanked your grandmother lately? (Or your great-grandmother
St. Audry – also known as Æthelthryth (or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe; 4 March 636 – 23
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
During the Second World War, Lt. Norman Wilkinson of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve came
That’s what a patron of P.T. Barnum’s American Museum claimed. And he took Barnum to
Nine miles Southeast of Skwentna and 59 miles north of Tyonek – and, yes, these
History is sometimes not kind to one’s reputation. A case in point is that of
This is called a sport fishing fantasy. But you have to be careful with fantasies.
One of the best-known images of the Klondike Strike is the line of men lock
It is so easy to whine about how 'there's nothing to watch on cable' tonight.
One of the easiest things to do is complain. And the people who do it
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
This is one of my favorite editorial pictures. His name is “Has No Horses,” or,
When hard-core Russian Marxist writer Maxim Gorky came to America, his hosts took him to
Mary Dyer was the first woman in American history to be hanged. In 1685, she
After the Civil War, the field of photography took a deplorable turn. Many families had
The middle of the 1700s, farmers would put young pigs in a burlap ‘bag’ to
You should have no trouble recognizing the man with his hands in his pockets. It’s
In America, we solve problems by making them profitable. Here is an excellent example. Used
