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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.

If You Want to Fish in My Pond, Come by the House First

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…

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