During WWII Britain developed a new type of guerilla warfare group much like our special operations units. The recruits were trained quickly and then inserted behind enemy lines to do as much damage as they could. Recently all of the top-secret training information for this mission has been rel...
referred to as Fugio cents, the date 1787, the die cutter Abel Buell, Our cavalier and one dollar would be worth, respectively, about New Haven, CT. three percent less than the United States "half eagle and dollar." We begin to see the Confederate States similarities when an emissary was...
On July 22, 1920, theNew York Timesreported the results of the Masters' chess tournament on the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City. The article noted that William Drueke of Grand Rapids was one of two donors of special prizes. In 1921 Sammy met the world's most famous movie star and ...
had acquired a multimillion-dollar fortune in banking, bootlegging, shipbuilding, and the film industry, and as a skilled player of thestock market. His mother,Rose, was the daughter of John F. (“Honey Fitz”) Fitzgerald, onetime mayor of Boston. They established trust funds for their childr...