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Which state has the most lighthouses? ....Hint: it is a state with no oceanfront property.  When the Petite Pointe Au Sable Lighthouse was put into service in 1874 during the Ulysses S. Grant Ad...

President Gerald Ford was a good and honorable man, a refreshing change from and after Nixon resigned. Ford made a decision, which he thought correct, to pardon Richard Nixon for his crimes and co...

Chicago— the “City of the Big Shoulders,” ever-optimistic Cubs fan, industry, and the birthplace of modern architecture following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.  High culture intermingles wit...

Today's word is escarpment. It is a geological term referring to the edge or steep slope between two landmasses formed either by erosion or uplift. A higher plateau might have harder surface rock...

Howdy! If you have seen the classic Howard Hawks western Red River with John Wayne, you can imagine the magnitude of Charles Foxwing Goodnight's life. The television miniseries, Lonesome Dove, was...

Medicine Park is a historic resort community on the eastern fringe of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. A young lawyer named Elmer Thomas, who later became an Oklahoma state senator, set up a...

On a muggy humid day in August 115 years ago, America's most popular celebrity came to our town. He had just left Osawatomie, KS where he had delivered a 90-minute stem-winder speech. An estimated ...

For nearly a century, a 28-ton Sioux Quartzite boulder stood upright on a pedestal of small rounded glacial rocks cemented together to form a monument. It was perched in a park overlooking the Kans...

It is doubtful that Teddy Roosevelt subscribed to the notion that "total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable." His state of inertia was constant motion, constant projects. His life wa...