You know him as Lincoln the Rail-Splitter, Lincoln the Lawyer, and Lincoln the President of the United States.
Now, bestselling historical author Seth Grahame-Smith has uncovered the true story of Lincoln… the Vampire Slayer.
Behold the trailer for the book!
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter should be in bookstores everywhere about now, and will almost certainly become required reading in history classrooms across the country....
Saint Valentine was a Christian who was imprisoned, brutally tortured and finally beheaded on orders from Emperor Claudius II of Rome on February 14th, 270 A.D. 
Frankincense, the precious fragrance that was among the gifts that the wise men from the East brought to the infant Jesus, is now being studied intensely for its cancer-fighting properties. There’s something in frankincense that compels cancerous cells to “reject” nuclei and reset back to what the normal governing gene sequence should be.
It’s a very educational and intriguing read, especially if you’ve ever read the Christmas story out of the Bible and wondered what the heck frankincense is supposed to be 🙂
(And although that painting has nothing to do with frankincense specifically, I’ll give props to whoever can tell me the name of it, who painted it and what its historical significance is 😉...
Eight and a half years later and new material of the 9/11 attacks is still coming out.
Look at this image of the collapse of the World Trade Center towers, taken from a New York City Police helicopter…
And eight years later, the same words come out of my mouth upon seeing it: “My God…”
An outfit called Soomo Publishing out of Asheville, North Carolina has cooked up this astounding music video that should be used in high school and college history classes across America.
Here is “Too Late to Apologize: A Declaration”…
Found a curious item on the CharlotteObserver.com site about Bostic: a small town an hour’s drive west of Charlotte here in North Carolina. Longstanding local folklore has it that Abraham Lincoln was born in a cabin atop what is now a tree-covered hill in this Rutherford County community, and not in Kentucky as the history books say. There is even the Bostic Lincoln Center: a small museum dedicated to the legend (which is not without its own supposed body of evidence). Either of the links will tell you more about the allegation, which is rife with all sorts of old-fashioned nineteenth-century ribaldry!
Hmmmm… fascinating, on numerous levels. I’m not saying that I do believe there’s an iota of credence to the claim though (which Geoff Elliott of The Abraham Lincoln Blog describes as “bad history” and calls the Bostic Lincoln Center “one of the worst examples I’ve yet seen”)....
It was fifty years ago today, on February 1st, 1960, that four freshmen students from North Carolina A&T strolled in to the Woolworth’s on North Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina for a bite to eat.
The lunch counter was segregated, as were many places throughout the country at the time. Only white people were served at it. Ezell A. Blair Jr., David Leinhail Richmond, Joseph Alfred McNeil, and Franklin Eugene McCain were black. They could order food at the Woolworth’s and eat it there, but they were expected to stand and not use the stools and chairs reserved for white people.
Blair, Richmond, McNeil and McCain sat down anyway…
The four young men weren’t served their lunch, and eventually left. The next day they came back and 27 friends joined them. The next day, even more people arrived. And very soon the sit-in movement spread like wildfire throughout other ...
Think your iPhone or BlackBerry is the wave of the future? Feh! Behold the marvelous technology of 1913, represented by E.C. Hanson’s “automobile wireless telephone”. With his buggy outfitted with two telephone poles and various high-voltage insulators, Hanson could make calls from the road up to 35 miles away.
Technologizer has a fun lil’ read up on their site about Hanson’s “cell phone” and fourteen other innovations that were decades ahead of the curve. Like Thomas Edison’s idea to print a 40,000 page book that would be only two inches thick, using ultra-thin metal plates instead of paper.
(Thankfully that one didn’t see production. Lord knows that I have enough trouble with papercuts 😛 )...
This is the weekend here in the United States where we have an extra day off to commemorate the lives and contributions of three great Americans…
First, born on January 19th in 1807, there is Robert E. Lee: to this day one of the most revered and beloved generals in American history. And in this blogger’s mind, also one of the greatest examples of Christian virtue and service. Eventually Lee had to make the hardest choice of his career: to lead the Union army or to throw his lot in with the Confederacy. As we all know Lee became the general of the Army of Northern Virginia. But what choice did he have? Lee was morally unable to take up arms against what he considered to be his countrymen. His role in the war and even his personal character have been debated for years… but in my mind there ...
Fifty years after Thalidomide was taken off the market in Great Britain, that country’s government is finally owning up to its role in one of the most horrific disasters of modern medicine.
Thalidomide was a drug approved to combat the symptoms of morning sickness in pregnant women. And when I say “approved” I mean that the British government didn’t perform proper tests on the drug to determine if it was, y’know, safe for both mothers and children. Thalidomide caused hundreds of birth defects throughout Great Britain because it hampered blood vessels from fully developing in the fetuses. Many children were born with vestigial limbs… or no limbs at all. A few had no eyes, among other severe problems.
In addition to the apology, the British government is allocating £20 million to help the hundreds of Thalidomide survivors living in the United Kingdom today.
By the way, although it’s not used ...