On this date in 1890, the Uniontown Evening Standard carried an item about the 鈥淲orld鈥檚 Four Richest Men.鈥滱ll of those men would be small potatoes today.The president of the Standard Oil Trust, John D. Rockefeller, topped the list. He was worth $135 million.The Rothschild family had an ...
When General Motors stopped making the Oldsmobile in 2004, it left behind a legacy of one of America鈥檚 greatest manufacturers.Ransom E. Olds founded the company in 1897, and, during its 107-year history, 35.2 million cars carried his name.So popular was the Oldsmobile, that a song was written ...
聽Darrell Issa is having a mighty tough time these days.The seven term U.S. Rep. from San Diego had been using his position as the Chairman of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to create salacious headlines and a number of high-profile investigations. His favorite target? ...
Centuries from now, archaeologists will discover that long-extinct species that had been so adept at shooting itself in the foot, it nearly became a monoped. There were the Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals 鈥� then the Republicans.They鈥檇 devolved from being hunters and gatherers to blatherers. A ...
聽First, my personal, unscientific theory.Since the last name of the inventor of the telephone was Bell, I鈥檝e always thought our telephones 鈥渞ing鈥� when somebody calls us. What sounds, then, would our telephones make, if Alexander Graham Bell鈥檚 last name would have been Sneeze, or Cough ...
A hundred years ago this week, the first of three Summit Mountain Hill Climbs was held.According to story on the front page of the June 18, 1913 edition of the Uniontown Morning Herald, 鈥�75 Cars entered for Hill Climb contest on Friday afternoon.''The Fayette County Auto Club was sponsoring ...