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The Backstory: Two Steves: Nerds Create a Trillion Dollar Company
We all know about Steve Jobs and Apple. But how did he and his much quieter partner Steve Wozniak create this massive business that, like it or not, …
9 months, 1 week ago
The Backstory: The G.O.A.T. Of All G.O.A.T.S
Who’s the all-time G.O.A.T. in the world of sports? There are a handful of obvious choices… but perhaps the G.O.A.T. of all G.O.A.T.s is a guy who, o…
9 months, 1 week ago
The Backstory: Politics: Assassinations, Duels, and Beatdowns
Violence in the world of politics seems to be getting worse as time goes by… including the recent assassination of a right-wing political influencer.…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Backstory: Kidnapped Twice!
It’s 1836 and 8 year old Cynthia Ann Parker is kidnapped by Comanche warriors in Texas. But as time goes by she has so totally assimilated into the t…
9 months, 2 weeks ago
The Backstory: Babe Ruth: Baseball Legend Fueled by Food, Women, Liquor . . and Money
These days a lot of folks complain that sports has become simply a money game. But that trend actually began over a century ago with the wild antics …
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Backstory: What’s Up With Cats . . and Dogs?
Dogs give us puppy eyes . . cats grace us with their presence. But we love them both . . or at least a lot of us do. But why are the two most popular…
9 months, 3 weeks ago
The Backstory: Diets: The Hunger . . To Not Be Hungry
Hard to imagine but fad diets go back as much as 5000 years. It was took the Victorians to make it a massive business. These days we all want the new…
9 months, 4 weeks ago
The Backstory: Sex, Violence, and Spiritual Enlightenment in the 1820s
A 15 year old kid walks into the woods to ask some questions about the meaning of life. Nothing unusual there. However, this kid, Joseph Smith, walks…
10 months ago
The Backstory: Killer Floods of Alcohol!
Imagine being swept up in a flood of sticky molasses headed to a distillery… or a 25-foot tsunami of beer… or a torrent of hundreds of thousands of g…
10 months ago
The Backstory: Gilded Age Divorce Scandal
Imagine forcing your daughter into a loveless marriage to an English duke. Why? Because you want a divorce, money from the divorce, and the ability t…
10 months, 1 week ago