On Feb­ru­ary 18, 1930, a Guernsey cow from Bis­marck, Mis­souri named Elm Farm Ollie [1. The info for this post came from the super-duper Wikipedia.] became the first cow in his­tory to fly in an air­plane as part of the Inter­na­tional Air Expo­si­tion in St. Louis, Mis­souri. The trip cov­ered 72 miles, with Ollie taking […]

The First Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress did a few things, like draft the Arti­cles of Asso­ci­a­tion [1. The Arti­cles of Asso­ci­a­tion were peti­tions of griev­ances against Great Britain by the Thir­teen Colonies and a com­pact among them to col­lec­tively impose eco­nomic sanc­tions to pres­sure a res­o­lu­tion. The Arti­cles were drafted by the First Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress in 1774 […]

The Wil­helm Gust­loff, a KdF [1. Kraft durch Freude (KdF, lit­er­ally “Strength Through Joy”) was a large state-controlled leisure orga­ni­za­tion in the Third Reich, a part of the Ger­man Labour Front, the national Ger­man labor orga­ni­za­tion.] cruise ship pressed into ser­vice to aide the Ger­man war effort, was prepar­ing to leave the port of Gdynia […]

Bessie Cole­man, one of 10 kids that were born to George and Susan Cole­man, was born on Jan­u­ary 26, 1892, in the far east Texas town of Atlanta. George and Susan made ends meet by share­crop­ping, wash­ing laun­dry and cook­ing for white fam­i­lies. Grow­ing up Bessie was an excel­lent stu­dent, where she excelled at math […]

You know sev­eral mem­bers of the First Con­ti­nen­tal Con­gress from school — John Adams, John Jay, Patrick Henry, and George Wash­ing­ton. If you drink beer, you know another mem­ber — Samuel Adams. But there were more, 50 more. The idea of a meet­ing such as this was floated a year ear­lier by Renais­sance man Ben­jamin Franklin, […]