By the mid-1800s London was a crowded, smelly city that killed many of its residents. Well, to be more accurate, cholera killed many people living in the heart of a great, growing city. We know today that cholera is an intestinal infection that leads to severe dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, killing its victim in days….
Amazon is unstoppable. Or is it?
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…
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…
History can be an interesting teacher (if we pay attention).
Another story of wisdom not found in books.
Wisdom is not always found in books.
Oliver W. Cummings Johnnie was as fine a neighbor as a guy could have. When I was a youngster and our families visited, swapped work, butchered hogs together. We also fished and went on the occasional fish fry together. Johnnie favored fishing with a seine, or hogging. I learned to hog fish (now sometimes called…
A (bad) lesson from Brighteyes
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