In June, 1965, recent UCLA film school graduate Jim Morrison, jobless and homeless, was residing on a Venice Beach rooftop. Within two years, the Doors song “Light My Fire,” was the #1 song in the US.…
In June, 1965, recent UCLA film school graduate Jim Morrison, jobless and homeless, was residing on a Venice Beach rooftop. Within two years, the Doors song "Light My Fire," was the #1 song in the US.…
Robert E. Lee: Valiant Hero or Misguided Traitor? Arlington House, Occupied By Federal Troops, 1864 George Parke Custis was kicked out of Princeton, left St. John’s College of Annapolis after only one…
Georg Elser's failure is one of the most remarkable stories in European history. Georg Elser, Circa 1939 The contrast between Adolf Hitler and Georg Elser could not have been more dramatic. Hitler was…
DB Cooper, the man responsible for the most notorious air hijacking in US history. The areas where Cooper may have landed in the state of Washington On Thanksgiving morning, A Portland FBI…
Robert E. Lee, Valiant Hero or Misguided Traitor? Robert E. Lee, 1845, With Son Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, 1807. He was the son of Henry Lee III and Anne Carter, Henry and Ann’s fifth…
Herman Melville: From obscurity to immortality Herman Melville, 1861 When he died at age 72, on September 28, 1891, Herman Melville was so obscure that those who even remembered his literary output…
Herman Melville: From Obscurity to Immortality Melville's Massachusetts Home-Arrowhead Over forty, Melville need not be concerned with actually having to fight for the Union but in 1863, he and his…
Ted Ngoy, the ultimate American Dream, including donuts Ted Ngoy's First Donut Shop, La Habra, California Eventually, in 1976, one of Ted's customers showed him an ad in the local newspaper, the…
Frida Kahlo, Mexican icon Frida Kahlo Photographed By Her Father Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Calderon was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacan, Mexico. Today, Coyoacan, officially a borough of the…
