His Ears Cracked Kidnap Case
The victim’s attention to detail and good memory were the keys to solving the 1933 kidnapping of a wealthy Oklahoma City oilman. Charles F. Urschel and his wife, Bernice, were playing bridge with Mr. and […]
Eardley Erastus Hawks
Eardley Erastus Hawks was born in Mesa, Arizona Aug. 1896, the fifth child of Amos Joseph and Florence Julia Eardley Hawks.Amos Hawks was a restless man, roaming from one place to another, moving his family […]
A Truce with Myself
My name is Meriam… I am a twenty-year old Tunisian girl. A tired soul with short-dark hair and brown eyes. I was born in a small town near the Libyan Desert called Tataouine… a harsh […]
The Poor Little Bird’s Wildest Adventure
In 1976, I was then ten years old young. My family was driven back to Masara, Maco, Davao del Norte from Suricon Mining, of Nonoc Island in Surigao del Norte, after two years of transition […]
General Enrique Adolfo Espinosa de los Monteros of Mexico
Enrique’s early days and from Spain to Mexico Enrique was born in Madrid?(Northern Spain) or really…on a boat while the family were leaving from Barcelona on the Atlantic Ocean, Spain(possibly on a boat when his […]
Speech to 13th International AIDS Conference
Speech given at the Opening ceremony of the 13th International AIDS Conference in Durban, July, 2000 “Hi, my name is Nkosi Johnson. I live in Melville, Johannesburg, South Africa. I am 11 years old and […]
Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
DEAR SON: I have ever had pleasure in obtaining any little anecdotes of my ancestors. You may remember the inquiries I made among the remains of my relations when you were with me in England, […]
A Slave Girl’s Story
Kate Drumgoold was born as an enslaved person around 1858 near Petersburg, Virginia. Her life is captured in her autobiography, A Slave Girl’s story. It offers a message of racial uplift, faith, and education. CHAPTER […]
Butin, Mary Ryerson
Mary Ryerson Butin, physician, born on a farm near Wilton, Iowa, 17th August, 1857. She battled and conquered much of the prejudice against women in medical science. LIFE’S STORYMary E. Ryerson Butin M.D.MADERAM, CALIFORNIA, 1930 […]
Bobbie Burton Turnbull
Contrary to a bunch or silly articles I did not apply for the job with the original airline (1928-1929). I knew the Braniffs Paul and Marie and Phil and Bea Braniff, socially. Paul offered me […]