I grew up in tornado alley, so many tornadoes have come and gone over me, beside me, yet thankfully, not…
Year: 2013
Napoleon Hill: Habits of Success
It was the late 19th century, during the industrial revolution, a time when some men made riches well beyond the average…
North Korean Victory Day Parade Marks 60th Anniversary
Many remember, what is sometimes called the “Forgotten War” , that ended sixty years ago on July 27, 1953. It would…
Historical Heroics: Ten Boom Family
Heroes are not born with super human powers or created from alien DNA, but are everyday people who rise to…
Iron Man has Nothing on These Heroes
We run to the theaters in mass to watch movies about larger than life fictional action heroes, yet we minimize…
Lady Liberty’s Modern Day Visitors
There have been throngs of eager visitors, since The Statue of Liberty’s reopening Thursday. Cleanup is complete from Hurricane Sandy’s torrential wrath on…
Gunfight at the Ok Corral as in the Movies
The movies Tombstone and Wyatt Earp, from the early 1990s, were not quite historically accurate dramatizations of the infamous gunfight…
Tornado History
It has been confirmed that the Friday, May 31, 2013 tornado, that brought destruction and death to El Reno, OK, was the…
Keynes Essay of Possibility
In John Maynard Keynes’ 1930 essay, Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren , he comments on the then current “prevailing world depression” and…
The Four Enemies of Paper, Photos & Textiles
by William D. Welge, CA * Most people, who are the keepers of family treasures, may not be aware that,…
