Reflections on Dead Viking Women

Archaeologists recently exhumed the bodies of two Viking women in Vestfold County, Norway. They had been buried with a sixty-five foot Viking longboat in the year 834 A.D. It is assumed that the older of the two was some sort of royalty; either that or she just happened to be sleeping on deck while the […]

August 12th, this Day in History

Night of Murdered Poets. In Soviet Russia thirteen Jewish poets were put on trial for espionage. Just Stalin’s way of thanking a population that gave its all to beat back Nazi Germany. The thirteen pleaded their cases in front of a jury of their peers, although, in this case, their peers were a three military […]

Fun Facts About the Founding Fathers and Other Alliterations

Independence Day is set aside to commemorate the ratification of the Declaration of Independence on July 2nd, 1776. The reason we celebrate on July 4th is because, if we did what people thought we should do, we wouldn’t be very independent now, would we? The Fourth of July is usually celebrated with fireworks. The reason […]