Filipino emergency notes more popularly known as guerrilla notes or resistance currencies were issued in various sizes, designs and denominations by many provincial and municipal authorities during th...
Less than a decade after the successful first airplane flight by the Wright Brothers in 1903 in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, USA, one of the Wright Brothers planes, the “Wright B”, made its...
Syrian craftsmen created a room with walnut paneled walls that frame a series of elaborate painted doorways, cupboards and shuttered windows. The decoration is typical of the Ottoman decorative style,...
How did the reservation lands of the American Indians shrink? What exactly happened in the past? The United States government and the American Indians have always had a difficult relationship. After m...
Who is Lester Lacy? As a prisoner of the Japanese during WWII, Mr. Lacy kept a small journal where he wrote his war experiences. Lester Lacy, of Bland, Missouri, entered the service as a member of the...
Here are examples of English silver in the baroque and rococo styles. These works of art were produced using innovative techniques and are marked with England’s most celebrated 18th-century silv...
I was fascinated at the different old logos, slogans, and posters from various airlines that were posted at the San Diego Air and Space Museum. So I took photos of them. Here they are… Northeast...
Benjamin Charles Steele from Montana was one of the POW survivors during the Japanese occupation in the Philippines in World War II (1939-1945). While a prisoner, he produced a remarkable document of ...