The “wildflower meadow in a can” idea suddenly zoomed into prominence almost as soon as the idea of including wildflowers in managed landscapes came into being. Sealing seeds in a can is a good idea, provided the cans are stored at cool temperatures. At the very least, seeds can be protected from undesirable humidity. But […] Read more

Witchcraft is also called Wicca, or alternatively, The Craft. This previously underground religion has much to teach every human about survival and about the ethical use of natural innate powers […] Read more

On a muggy night in June 1964, two tiny girls lay asleep in their separate beds, 38 miles apart, while a blue station wagon sped down the road between their Mississippi communities. Their strange terrible connection: Angela’s father, James Channey 21, was at the wheel of the car, while some of the men Donna trusted […] Read more

A select group of more than 1,000 women pilots became pioneers, heroes, and role models. They were the “Women Airforce Service Pilots” or “WASP”, the first women in history trained to fly American military aircraft. The Wasp flew more than 9 million miles and 77 models of aircraft and 38 women would perish while ferrying […] Read more

In 1927, a real estate developer and entrepreneur named Fred Ponty, bought a 27-acre parcel of land situated on the Hudson River, in the northern part of Poughkeepsie, NY. On this land, Ponty went on to build an amusement park known as the Woodcliff Pleasure Park. The rise and fall of this park is not […] Read more

Working girls worked up over unjust fines! In 1886 El Paso City council always looking to drum up extra revenue, from the Brothels and Saloons, voted to raise the monthly business fee on the local Scarlet Ladies from $5.00 to $10.00. Enraged 150 ladies march, in unison, to City Hall, to demand the city reduce […] Read more

After World War II, the Soviet Union bit off a large chunk of Eastern Poland and compensated for it by moving Poland’s border with Germany westward. When the German territories of Silesia and Pomerania thus became Polish, more than 3 million Germans fled or were expelled, but hundreds of thousands of ethnic Germans remain. In […] Read more

November 12, 1941–Russian Winter Takes Toll on German Soldiers   On this day, the temperature on the Moscow front plummeted to twelve degrees centigrade below zero. For the first time, Soviet ski troops were launched into action. For many German soldiers, frostbite emerged as an unexpected, crippling foe. SS General Eicke reported back to headquarters […] Read more

November 12, 1941–Russian Winter Takes Toll on German Soldiers. On this day, the temperature on the Moscow front plummeted to twelve degrees centigrade below zero. For the first time, Soviet ski troops were launched into action. For many German soldiers, frostbite emerged as an unexpected, crippling foe. SS General Eicke reported back to headquarters that […] Read more