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.
This was Bishop Rowe in about 1920. No pictures of Billy the Horse exist. During
You think this flu season is bad? Not a chance! 100 years ago, America suffered
Thomas Watson, Alexander Graham Bell’s assistant. His landlady complained about the excessive noise he was
While there is always competition for who is best, rarely for who is worst, but
With the coronavirus upon us, it’s tempting to talk about ‘the good ol’ days’ when
There is an old saying that making money is easy. What’s hard is saving it.
Talk about truth being stranger than fiction! In 1898, during the Klondike Rush, a young
"Ya hear that noise? Christ, that ain't static; that's a bear! Yeah, I gotta bear
One of the easiest things to do is believe “it can’t happen here.” Well, it
President Calvin Coolidge could be a prankster. He would sometimes page a Secret Service agent.
Here’s a blast from the past. My past, at least. I was looking for a
People ask me why I titled my book WALRUS WITH A GOLD TOOTH. Because there
In Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush, Scurvy Bill, Two Tooth Mike and Half-Kid, stole
Readers do not know how blessed they are. In 1951, this WAS interlibrary loan in
This is a photograph of a bank run in 1929. These people are scared their
