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.
In 1958, while on tour with Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly and The Chantels, the promoter
This was the solution to the energy crisis in Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush.
There’s been a lot of talk lately about who the “real” Americans are. The implication
When Elsa Einstein, Albert’s wife, was being shown around the Mount Wilson Observatory, she was
Yup, it’s a sea horse. (No Photoshop necessary.) The scientific name for the seahorse is
This scene, which happened in Anchorage, Alaska, happened all across the country in the 1920s
Anne Royall was one of – if not the first – first female journalist. She
Alaskans have a unique folk art, it’s called “absurding.” Alaskans get tired of hearing tourists
This is a photograph of a bank run in 1929. These people are scared their
One of the best-known images of the Klondike Strike is the line of men lock
These were the remains of “Big Nose George” Parrot in 1950, half a century after
William Harvey Carney (February 29, 1840 – December 9, 1908) was an African American soldier
There is an old saying that making money is easy. What’s hard is saving it.
He was known as “Indian Charlie.” His real name was Charles Curtis. And he was
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My father, a Holocaust refugee, spoke four language fluently and read Greek and Latin. But
History is not the story of the past; it is the study of the future.
When you make something illegal, all you do is raise its price. Marijuana smokers in