Next time someone talks about ‘everyone having guns in the Wild West,’ remind them that

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In 1838, Louis Daguerre was experimenting with a new technology called photography in Paris. Compared

You think this flu season is bad?  Not a chance!  100 years ago, America suffered

This WAS. Here, in 1932, my father’s family posed for a portrait in their garden.

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Nothing pictures. We all have them. Photographs of, well, nothing in particular. Not worth savings

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Bitcoins and money. Prior to Alaska statehood, there is a dearth of coins.   BIG transactions

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