It could be said had the Great Library of Alexandria not been burned down the world would be a different place. Such is war, a nations culture is wiped out by conquering nations and the great Library of Alexandria fell to invaders. The man who envisioned the library was a military general named Alexander who…
Kon Tiki
In the 1940s, Thor Heyerdahl from Norway theorised that the peoples of Polynesia were settled by the peoples of Peru rather than people of Asiatic descendent as was commonly accepted at that time. In the 1940's this idea was considered to be completely ludicrous and the academia and anthropological world both in Europe and later…
Louis Prima
Just a Gigolo on the Northshore !
A few WORDS about The Bard of Avon
William Shakespeare is a name most people recognize despite being born on April 23, 1564 and dying at the age of fifty-two on April 23, 1616. During his lifetime he and his performance troop, Lord Chamberlain's Men, named after their lawful protector, and later the troop called the King's Men, during the reign of King…
Sure Shot NBA Star “Pistol” Pete Maravich — a Covington Retiree
"Pistol" Pete Maravich continues to hold the record for NCAA Division 1 for all time scorer.
William Bartram – Botanist and Traveler
Driving around the South, you might have come across markers labeled Bartram’s Trail or William Bartram Trail. These markers, placed by the Bartram Trail Conference, commemorate the path that William Bartram, a botanist-traveler, took nearly 250 years ago. William Bartram was born in 1739 in Philadelphia to a Quaker family. William’s father, John Bartram, was…
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