Byers Didnât Witness History â He Grabbed It by the Horns, Wrestled It to the Ground and Branded It with His Own Initials
William Newton Byers, that paragon of pioneer pluck, didnât just move to Denver in 1859 â he stormed into that tent city, armed with nothing but a printing press and…
The Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati Railway (CCC) Played a Role in Abraham Lincoln’s Funeral Procession
According to the internet, the locomotive Nashville, owned by the Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati Railroad (a predecessor of the CCC&I), pulled the funeral train while it traveled through Ohio. The…
The other founding fathers: the SUPERINTENDENTS of insanity
Picture this: While the rest of America was busy manifesting destiny, these thirteen madcap mind-menders were cooking up a scheme to rule the nation’s noggins. They met in Philadelphia, because…
Leavell, B S. âThomas Jefferson and smallpox vaccination.â Transactions of the American Clinical and Climatological Association vol. 88 (1977): 119-27 and a few notes
Little Turtle, mentioned in the main article, suffered gout and rheumatism before he died in 1812 Wikipedia says Little Turtle, who also met Washington and Adams, made two trips to Washington,…
I figure if something is that ugly on purpose, it involves some kind of drug-fueled secret code. Maybe it’s a song?
This is from the Polio Wall of Fame aka the Polio Hall of Fame and the pattern is disturbing. It is found on the outside wall of what is called…
Argyrodes pluto is a species of cobweb spider and kleptoparasite
Argyrodes pluto is a species of cobweb spider in the family Theridiidae. It is found in the United States, Mexico, and Jamaica. Argyrodes, also called dewdrop spiders, is a genus of comb-footed spiders that was first described by EugĂšne Louis Simon in 1864. They…
Redhorn Lake (Montana)
Redhorn Lake is located in Glacier National Park, in the U. S. state of Montana. Redhorn Lake is in the Livingston Range. Glacier explorer Marc Ankenbauer called it one of the most remote lakes in the…
















