“Who is that Inupiat?”

“Who is that Inupiat?”

You should have no trouble recognizing the man with his hands in his pockets. It’s

Alaska Gold Rush

Alaska Gold Rush

This is probably the most well-known photograph of the Alaska Gold Rush.  There is just

“They slid DOWN the ice staircase?!”

“They slid DOWN the ice staircase?!”

One of the best-known images of the Klondike Strike is the line of men lock

“This was PORN?  Well, in 1915 it was.”

“This was PORN? Well, in 1915 it was.”

Some things never change.  From the moment of the birth of the internet, the first

“The card of DEATH!!!!!”

“The card of DEATH!!!!!”

It is the card of death.  The Ace of Spades, that is.  The Death Card. 

“It’s a wwwhhhaaatttt?”

“It’s a wwwhhhaaatttt?”

Today, the Roman emperor Vespasian, 69-79 CE, is best known for the construction of the

“HOW CAN A FOUNTAIN CHANGE ITS SHAPE?”

“HOW CAN A FOUNTAIN CHANGE ITS SHAPE?”

This is the Kay Linton Memorial Ice Fountain outside the Loussac Library in Anchorage, Alaska. 

You would have to have been…

You would have to have been…

You would have to have been an Alaskan in the last century to understand the

When ‘Freedom of the Press’ meant the press.

When ‘Freedom of the Press’ meant the press.

In about 1910, Alaska Gold Rush newspaper editor/printer/investigative reporter George Hinton Henry published scathing but

“How high is too high for heels?”

“How high is too high for heels?”

Like many fashions, high heels have come a long way since the 10th Century when

“Were they really Buffalo Soldiers?”

“Were they really Buffalo Soldiers?”

25th Infantry Regiment, 1890  At the end of the Civil War, many black Union veterans

“Take that, you beer swilling German Immigrants!”

“Take that, you beer swilling German Immigrants!”

In 1854, Levi Boone became Mayor of Chicago on the Know-Nothing Party whose tenets were