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Knights Without Parachutes
A Blog of Great War Stories
Solar Eclipse 2017 - Headed from Oregon Territory to St. Joe, Missouri
2017-06-13 13:20
St. Joseph was one of the "jumping-off" points for settlers headed for the Oregon Territory - which is where the eclipse path heads, with a slight difference, that the eclipse path travels from Oregon...
Scheherazade Ballet Image - Arabian Nights
2017-06-05 12:46
Picture the perfumes of Arabia, fragrant odors of musk and ambergris, gardens of a hundred different delights, rare and radiant damsels, trees laden with jewel-fruits, magic lamps, birds singing glori...
How History Got Onto Shirts, and Off Shirts Onto Prints
2017-06-03 12:21
Museums are among Ewan's favorite places to be, and he saw that a lot of small museums had gift shops that couldn't afford items unique to their own museum.
Ski Train from Denver to Winter Park
2017-05-27 12:13
The Ski Train saved skiers from traffic jams in the mountains (and saved the rest of the traffic from those additional cars). Instead, passengers could sit and watch the scenery go by, scenery that co...
Argo Gold Mine and Mill
2017-05-23 20:23
Construction of the four-mile-long tunnel started in 1893 and finished in 1910, and it was the longest in the world at the time, a wonder of the western mining industry.
Odd, Unusual, and Different History
2017-05-20 17:50
History, he says, should not be just a series of names and dates, but the dates themselves can be interesting when you realize that Beethoven died only about a decade before the attack on the Alamo.
