Remarkable Travels

President Abraham Lincoln had recently signed the act of Congress creating the Medal of Honor.  Secretary of War William Stanton personally...

Kate Warne was the nation’s first female detective. She died at 38 of congestion of the lungs and is buried in the Pinkerton family plot in...

James P. Beckwourth, from a daguerreotype c. 1855   Jim Beckwourth was an African American who played a major role in the early explorati...

Grandma Moses–Artist She did not begin painting until she was 77, and then only because arthritis made needlework too uncomfortable. Her...

“The Borghild-project – a discreet matter of the Third Reich” The world’s first sex doll – or "gynoid" – was built in 1941 ...