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

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.

Encountering the metal in the New World in the sixteenth century, Spanish conquistadors assumed that the metal was simply gold that hadn’t yet ripened- they gave it the derisive name “platina” meaning “little silver.”

While the massive Essex-class fleet carriers grabbed the headlines with their sprawling air groups and high-speed strikes, the "Jeep carriers" of the Casablanca class provided the indispensable backbone of Allied maritime operations.