History

History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from. And if it offends you, even better, because you are less likely to repeat it. History is not yours to change or destroy.

Last Updated May 14, 2023 @ 3:25 pm

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Military

Paleontology

General

Local

666 – The Meaning
Advent Calendar
Amato Carnage
Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station
April Fools
Aquarium Beginnings
Australia’s Ice Breaker RSV Nuyina
Batagaika Crater
Beck and Call
Henry C. Beck Company
Berwyn (Chicago, Illinois)
British Overseas Airways Corporation
Bruno, Giordano
Callanish Stones, The
Cedar Trinket Boxes, Souvenir
Chessie System
Cloud 9?, What is
Cooties
Cottonland Castle
Crowbar?, Why is it called a
Cubicles
Daylight Saving Time
Dewey Decimal System
Edmund Fitzgerald, SS
Excommunicated
The History of Escalators
Ford Maverick
Fort Worth Stockyards
Front Page News (Part 1), Historic
Gargoyle or Grotesque
Genericized Brand Names
Glass Onion Bottle
Glidden Grave Robber?, Ralph
Graveyards?, How Many People Live in
Guinness Records Records Breaker
Henges?, What are
Hungarian Records
Iron Gall Ink
Jaywalking?
Lake Tahoe: A Sweetheart of a Lake
Last Names Get Started?, How Did
Lockheed Martin X-59 QueSST
London Hammer
Lord Byron
Mad as a Hatter
Mansa Musa
Mariana Trench
Mars, Inc.
May 1958
McDonald’s, Weird, But Cool,
Monks Mound
Morse Code
Motels
Mount Shasta Mysteries
NASA Railroad
Nevada State Prison
New Nazca Lines?
O’Clock?, Why is it
Olympic Events, Discontinued
Oshkosh Striker ARFF
Prohibition Agents
Radioluminescent Paint
Reservoir Dog?, What Is A
Rock Cairns
Skeleton Lake Mystery
St. Marks Lighthouse
St. Patrick’s Day? What is
Tasmanian Place Names, Crazy
Van Meter Visitor
Videos, Renting
Wallace is Here, Mike
Wet-Naps
Weird and Crazy Laws (Part 1)
Winchester Mystery House
Yakutsk
Yosemite (Sidewheeler)
Xcaret Park, Mexico

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Redware Pottery
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Roger Sharpe, the Pinball Wizard
The man who saved pinball.
Night Ship 282 Mystery
The NTSB declared cause as a collision with an unknown object.
The Zenith of the Sun at Angkor Wat
The term zenith sometimes means the highest point, way, or level reached …
Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
Guinness World Record for the longest place name with 85 characters.
Where is the Center of North America?
Where is it really?
The Omni Coliseum – 70s Concerts
The Omni was considered an architectural marvel that combined innovative roof, seating, …
Why Do They Say “Tie One On”?
Become intoxicated; go on a drinking spree.
Professor Edwin Barnhart, Ph.D.
Maya Exploration Center Director Dr. Ed Barnhart has almost three decades of …
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