Fearful of grave robbers, some families installed steel fences around the family graves. We have all identified with “things that go bump in the night.” Generations of Americans have shared similar nightmares, mostly about fictional creatures,...
The birth of radio broadcasting (Christmas Eve 1906) ran parallel with many other innovations – electric lights, running water, automobiles, telephones, refrigerators, and more. The difference, however, was that radio had the power to influence and...
Unless you are a maritime scholar, the average person probably hasn’t thought much about the array of lights needed for a ship. The most common of these lights are the masthead, navigational, signal and deck lights....
Sometimes there was silence from the pulpit. Those pastors played it safe and ignored the elephant in the room. Others put a Biblical spin on the subject, and the congregation went away feeling that enslaving another...
“In the beginning he had been fresh and strong, and he had gotten a job that first day, but now he was second-hand, a damaged article, so to speak, and they did not want him. They...
There were many surprises in the Civil War. The biggest surprise of all was just how incomprehensibly unprepared they were for the deadly battle results. By the age of 15, most young men are enjoying life:...
When Mark Twain said, “Don’t let schooling interfere with your education,” he might have been thinking about the American medical system in the 19th century. It was called primitive, even medieval. In 1861, at the outbreak...
Theodore Roosevelt Jr shortly after D-Day, and only days before his death. Teddy Roosevelt,our 26th President, would have described D-Day as the single most important day in modern history. Teddy Roosevelt would have wanted to be...
Perhaps the deeply religious Woodrow Wilson missed the Bible lesson (Genesis: 1:27) that said,”So God created man in His own image, in the image of God.” Wilson, like Adolph Hitler and others, whole-heartedly believed in...
The D-Day invasion of France on June 6, 1944 was the turning point of World War II. Of all the beach landings, the landing on Omaha beach was the bloodiest of all. By the...