THG's Year in Review

In 1891, British humorist Jerome K. Jerome wrote that “Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories.”

A Busy Week

The allied occupation of Iceland was almost bizarrely cordial, and became even stranger when the neutral state officially requested to be occupied by the United States, at the time also neutral.

You might not know his name, but without Carl Vinson, the world, and certainly the US Navy, might have been vastly different.

As one THG fan stated, this is a "fascinating tale of 19th century feminine spunk and dare-doing." Because in the end, a clever person can get around any rule.