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(Warning: This story may shock and anger you.) By late 1944 it was obvious to everyone that Germany was going to lose the war. Obvious to everyone, that is,Read More
In January 1914, six months before the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz-Ferdinand sparked the start of World War I in Europe, Henry Ford and the Ford Motor Company shockedRead More
The American Basketball Association or ABA operated for about a decade in the 1960s and ‘70s. The new league offered exciting new rules designed to attract fans; the red,Read More
Walt Disney had a live-in maid. Her name was Thelma Howard. Reportedly, she made all of Walt’s meals and helped raise his two daughters. By all accounts, she wasRead More
The Wolfson family moved to Jacksonville from St. Louis just before World War I began in Europe. Samuel Wolfson was four, younger brother Louis, just one year old. They wereRead More
The Hutton brothers, Edward Francis Hutton and Franklyn Laws Hutton made their money the truly old-fashioned way: they married it.
There are more people living in the world today than have ever died. World War I was an exceptionally bloody affair, killing more than 20 million. For four yearsRead More
Growing up, my father would periodically ask, “Who wants to go on a mystery trip?” I would always say yes. Sometimes those trips were pretty mundane, like trips toRead More
Teddy Roosevelt was climbing Mount Marcy in New York State when he learned that President McKinley had died as a result of a gunshot wound received a week earlier. HeRead More
Football rivalries run deep. Many of those go back decades. The annual Florida-Georgia game is so well attended by exuberant fans that it has been dubbed the “World’s Largest CocktailRead More