Read Short History / Historical Stories
listed below in order of the date they were published, with new stories first.
There are many myths on the tradition of the Easter Bunny and Easter Eggs. After much research and confusion of the subject, here is my interpretation of the tradition’s beginning.
A strange ship bearing gifts arrives at Earth from the unknown. This gift causes a social, technological, political boom launching man on his next steps. Only later after many years does the real gift from above show its worth.
The legend of the Leprechaun is one of the most enduring myths in Ireland. Much of it is folklore spun by the Irish.
A young boy and his family travel to a concert in Peekskill, New York in 1949 and witness the beginning of dark times in America.
It was a great movie, no doubt. And it certainly addressed the problem with race relations. But for me there was a scene that set the stage.
Newspapers across the country picked up the story of the prognosticating groundhog. Soon everyone was looking to the groundhog for weather predictions.
On September 25 1820 a man in Salem, New Jersey had to take a stand against fear, hysteria, and the malicious claims being made against…. a fruit.
Every time you watch a villain humiliating and goading an innocent man into drawing his gun, an action which will surely leave him dead, you are watching the typical Western film bad guy.
Luis Martinez flees from Lisbon to Spain with secret documents in 1936.