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Some dates feel quiet at first. Then you look closer, and you see the whole country shift. January 3, 1959 is one of those dates. That day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation that admitted Alaska to the United States as the 49th state. Alaska became the largest state in the Union, and the […]
January 1, 1999 was a quiet day on the street. Most people still had the same bills in their wallet. Shops still took francs, marks, pesetas, and lira. Cash drawers still sounded the same. But under the surface, Europe changed. That morning, the euro began as a real currency. Not as paper money yet. Not […]
Some documents feel like stone. They sit in a museum case. They look finished. They look calm. The Emancipation Proclamation is not like that. It feels like motion. Sports in January: The Month That Makes Us Feel Alive Again. It feels like a door being forced open in the middle of a war. It feels […]
Two million years ago, the very top of Greenland looked nothing like the stark ice and rock we see in photos today. It held an entire forest.It held rivers, an estuary, and a rich coastal plain.It held mastodons, reindeer, hares, geese, and dense undergrowth of trees and shrubs. We only know this because of a […]
When I first learned that a taxi driver from Torquay volunteered to be mummified like an ancient pharaoh, I had to pause and just sit with that thought. A regular man. A modern hospital. A team of chemists and forensic pathologists. And a three-thousand-year-old recipe that once wrapped kings for eternity. Tomato Plant Basics (Without […]
The 1758 Attack on Mission San Sabá How Comanche Power Shook the Spanish Frontier On March 16, 1758, smoke rose over the San Saba River in what is now central Texas. A force of around two thousand Native warriors, led by Comanche bands and their allies, surrounded a small Spanish mission. By the end of […]
When we talk about Texas history in the United States, we often hear about Spanish missions, cowboys, and oil. Behind all of that stands a much older story. The Lipan Apache are part of that story. They are an Apache people whose homelands stretch across what is now Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and northern Mexico. […]
