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.
One fateful day in the 1870s, the James Robinson Circus traveled to Middleton, Missouri. As
The great power of art is to transcend its components. Anyone can splash paint on
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
One of the easiest things to do is complain. And the people who do it
I’ll bet you think you are looking at flowers. WRONG! These are ‘fields’ of abandoned
This Labor Day let’s remember – and thank – Francis Perkins. She was the longest
No? Well, Abraham Lincoln did. In 1864 he was running for re-election against a very
Heinz Noonan, the “Bearded Holmes” of the Sandersonville Police Department, was having a miserable day.
Alaskan humorist Warren Sitka is famous for his admonition that humanity is best served by
Henri Matisse did, as a matter of fact. Of his wife. In 1905. When he
On July 22, 1916, San Francisco held a Preparedness Day Parade to show its readiness
Here’s a blast from the past. This is Joshua Pusey, the inventor of the matchbook.
During the Alaska Gold Rush, George Hinton Henry, the “Father of Alaska Journalism,” kept printing
[huge_it_video_player id="2"] We all makes mistakes, some of the whoppers. Some of those errors in
One of the short comings of the silver screen is it snapshots history. Movies ‘pretend’
Just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, a booming metropolis of 26,255 in 2010,
One hundred years ago, a rag-tag army of military officers and civilians like these men
Actually, it doesn’t. Anytime there is a new technology, you can be assured there will
