“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
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Starting in 1938, Emerich Juettner – also known as Edward Mueller –started counterfeiting one dollar
One of the givens in the United States is the USPS, United States Postal Service.
Just a bunch of camels, right? Yeah, but there is something lurking under those waters.
One of the untold dramas of the Alaska Gold Rush was the building of the
My father was an Italian Jewish Holocaust refugee. He arrived in New York on the
On October 25, 1774, in support of the Boston Tea Party, Edenton, North Carolina, held
While there is always competition for who is best, rarely for who is worst, but
It was said that the Roman Emperor Caligula once declared war on Neptune, the God
The basic lesson of history NOT TAUGHT in schools today is events come in cycles.
When Elsa Einstein, Albert’s wife, was being shown around the Mount Wilson Observatory, she was
It’s easy to say how BAD things are right now: COVID19, race riots, high unemployment,
There is an old saying that making money is easy. What’s hard is saving it.
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
It depends on the language you speak. In English, the term gypsy was short for
One hundred and 13 years ago, my 19-year-old grandfather arrived in San Francisco on his