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On December 10, 1906 the president of the United States was awarded the Nobel Prize prize for peace. It was a controversial award. The award represents the unique time in history, the complex legacy of the nations twenty-sixth president, and the persistent disagreement over an award for peace given in a world where reality makes peace uncommon at best.
Yes, that is a Tardis on my shirt. And all three cats make it into the background.
A witness said, on August 8, 1975: it “sounded like the sky was collapsing and the earth was cracking.” What came next was the single most deadly infrastructure collapse in human history.
There were 129 stage robberies in Arizona alone between 1875 and 1903. But one robbery in particular has left an enduring mystery. What exactly happened outside Wickenburg, Arizona on November 5, 1871?
The unsung heroes of the naval war in the Western theater weren’t the city class casemate ironclads, but a much larger and more active fleet of more than seventy, much smaller, lightly armored vessels. The “Tinclads” of the US Civil War deserve to be remembered.
