Have you ever wondered if you are reading accurate accounts of events in history books? Can we really believe everything we read and have learned…
[Transcribed from the Baltimore Sun via the TIMES DAILY, Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama August 4, 1894] In a 1894 speech Hon. Jos. Wheeler of…
Have you put up a Christmas Tree? Christmas trees appeared in Germany about 1600 and a few might have been found among German settlers…
Working for the telephone company after college by Clifford Dobyns My first job after college was with a telephone company whose home base was…
SONGS OF WORLD WAR II written August 2009 By Joyce Ray Wheeler He says it’s a song they sang when marching. Even after all…
On May 25, 1910, the first-ever night-time airplane flight was made at Orville Wright's flying school near Montgomery, Alabama. Glinting now and then in the moonlight…
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