“Poison?! Really?! Uh-huh. Then why is the emperor drinking it?”
Legend has it the Persian emperor Jamsheed loved grapes so much he stored them in
Mata Hari: Spy? Scapegoat? Payback? To this day, no one knows for sure.
In February of 1917, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and self-confessed harlot, was arrested in
“What was it really like in Nome during the Alaska Gold Rush?”
So little is known about the Alaska Gold Rush that most Americans think the Klondike
John Wesley Hardin and “Wild Bill” Hickok were friends?
John Wesley Hardin stands out as the most ruthless killer in not only the Old
“When faced with an impossible problem, think in reverse!”
Often a genius is someone who just looks at a problem differently. Between 1905 and
“F. X. O. 7? What ……?”
Before there was a Wild West, bandanas were the rage in England among the wealthy.
“How do you stop a mutiny with just one word? Ask Julius Caesar.”
In 47 BCE, Julius Caesar was faced with a mutiny. The Tenth Legion was demanding
Why your grandparents never went to the library without a pen.
Quick, millenials, what is this? And why did your grandparents always take a pen to
“How did you shoot that cue ball!?”
Frank B. Adams, born in 1847, was a professional carom billiards player – in the
Frederick William I, King of Prussia
As part of his duties as King of Prussia, Frederick William I, King of Prussia,
How can you remember something you never learned?
This photograph intrigues me. Why? Because these salmon left this stream five years ago when