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Ship Ice to India??

Frederic Tudor, a 19th century Bostonian, had crazy idea. He started shipping blocks of ice from New England lakes to the West Indies in 1806. In the 1830s he packed a ship with ice and shipped it around the world to Calcutta, India. Just imagine loading a sailing ship with well over a hundred tons…

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull

The 2008 “Indy” movie was entertaining (but not as good as the original) and clearly the result of Hollywood imagination. But the story of crystal skulls is more interesting than that and can highlight some of our current problems with “fake news.” So, here’s a bit of history. In 1897 Tiffany’s and Company sold a…

Clarke Stanley’s Snake Oil

Are you in the market for snake oil? A hundred years ago people wanted the “elixir.” Beware, it still exists in different forms.

Mini-history Stories

Mini-history stories for entertainment and education. You can learn from the past.

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