“Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words.”
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
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
This is a photograph of a ship somewhere along the Mississippi before the Civil War.
Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant. His landlady complained about the excessive noise he was
In the 1950s, American engineers working in the Middle East – where liquor was frowned
Petroleum as a fuel source is on the wane. We will not have another century
During the summer of 1919, a United States Army Major was assigned to a transcontinental
It was said that the Roman Emperor Caligula once declared war on Neptune, the God
Charles VI of France (1368-1422) was daffy. He thought he was made of glass and
There’s been a lot of talk about who was on the Titanic. How about the
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
So little is known about the Alaska Gold Rush that most Americans think the Klondike
A ‘fourth panel’ is a way to transcend an art form. Traditionally, a painting is
If you are a pilot and are planning on making airdrops, make absolutely certain that
where the temperature gets all the way down to 65!, in most of Alaska, 65
In Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush, Scurvy Bill, Two Tooth Mike and Half-Kid, stole
I’d like to believe this photoshop. But then, again ……….. My father – like all
Probably. But then again, it could said the archaeologist examining his corpse might have spilled
This was the solution to the energy crisis in Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush.
25th Infantry Regiment, 1890 At the end of the Civil War, many black Union veterans
During the Alaska Gold Rush, George Hinton Henry, the “Father of Alaska Journalism,” kept printing
All Roman roads had mileage stones, set one thousand paces apart. The term “mile” comes
Just across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, a booming metropolis of 26,255 in 2010,
lice Roosevelt Longworth, daughter of President Theodore Roosevelt, didn’t give a whit about the ‘proper
There is an old saying that making money is easy. What’s hard is saving it.
No, it is not THE Louvre. It is the ‘Temporary Louvre,’ a saloon in Juneau
In Nome, anyone could, in actuality, find gold just lying on the ground. In sand,
