“This is a FISH?”
Actually, it is. Before 1966, Catholics were not allowed to eat meat during Lent. So,
“NO!!! Not really!!!! Actually, YES!!!”
There is an old joke that you never have to outrun an angry bear. All
“Yeah? Really? At one time stuffed possums were in?”
While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt ‘came up empty.’
“How can you make the Suez Canal d-i-s-a-p-p-e-a-r?”
During the Second World War, the Germans were trying to bomb the Suez Canal to
“It’s a WWHHHAATTT?”
Everyone loves a Fourth of July Parade! One of the nice things about historic photographs
“It must be true, I read it in the newspaper.”
As printed in the Tacoma Evening News on March 3, 1903, C. Payne, an armless
“You do not want to mess with this woman!”
Buffalo Calf Road Woman of the Northern Cheyenne was one of the few women warriors.
“WIPE that smile off your face!!”
You cannot tell some people to ‘be normal.’ And particularly not a woman in the
“Why was the Secretary of the Navy 243 miles inland in Alaska in 1920?”
In today’s dollars, the United States government spent $7.5 billion to build the Alaska Railroad
“How can you destroy something that does not exist?”
During the Alaska Gold Rush there was no liquor in Alaska. According to the United
“Stop thinking that the women only ‘got the right to vote’ with the 19th Amendment.”
In many parts of the US, women were voting long before August 20, 1920. In