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California Emerges The epic story of the founding of the Golden State NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION / ART RESOURCE, NY California’s “Bonaparte,” explorer John C. Frémont The founding of California was an adventure, an epic, a...

Oddities, backstories, and other weird things... Human nature During the eighteenth century, books that were considered offensive were sometimes punished by being whipped. Kellogg's Corn Flakes were invented by a Dr. Kellogg in hopes that they would...

Dr. Herbert Leon MacDonell is known as the Sherlock Holmes of bloodstain evidence. He wrote the book, Flight Characteristics and Stain Patterns of Human Blood, published by the U.S. Department of Justice (1971). His Bloodstain Pattern Interpretation...

As 2016 comes to an end, we take a look back at the year's top stories. From the fatal shooting of a Howard County deputy to the horrific murder of a little girl in Spencer, 2016 had its share of tragedies. The year was also marked by political upheaval...

OBAMA-CLINTON-TRUMPERnomics WORKS! But only for the SUPER RICH! A recently completed study by economists Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman found that the share of national income received by the bottom half of the US population has been...