“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
In 1958, while on tour with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and The Chantels, the promoter
During the Second World War, the Germans were trying to bomb the Suez Canal to
The single, most important reason to read history – ANY HISTORY – is because things
25th Infantry Regiment, 1890 At the end of the Civil War, many black Union veterans
Not a lot of social distancing here but, then again, this was 1890. Historically, the
In 1854, Levi Boone became Mayor of Chicago on the Know-Nothing Party whose tenets were
Anthony "Tony" Dimond, Alaska's lone delegate to the United States Congress from 1933 to 1944,
Actually, it doesn’t. Anytime there is a new technology, you can be assured there will
Like many fashions, high heels have come a long way since the 10th Century when
When it comes to sexual equality, until 1919 women were not guaranteed the right to
One of the easiest things to do is complain. And the people who do it
This is a shot of New York in 1887. What you see are electrical wires
Because banking was NOT in the United States Constitution, anyone could open a bank. And
In the 1870s, America’s foremost – and first – political cartoonist, Thomas Nast, attacked Boss
These were the remains of “Big Nose George” Parrot in 1950, half a century after
From June 6th to 9th, 1912, the most spectacular eruption in recorded history and the
Connie the Wiggler wasn't a singer or even a star of the stage but
Yup, that’s right. Those books are chained to a library shelf. That’s how valuable these
I’ll bet you didn’t know that Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” was based on a
