Modern Forensic science owes a large debt to an elderly, wealthy, Chicago socialite with an inventive mind and an inquiring nature.

Frances Glessner, the daughter of International Harvester magnate John Jacob Glessner married at 19 to Attorney, Blewett Lee. They had three children but their differing natures' led to a divorce. Frances developed an interest in the work of her brother's Harvard classmate, George Burgess Magrath, who later became Professor of Pathology at Harvard Medical...

A little over a year after I have joined, I've decided to try my hand at some speculative history again.


As most Irish will know, the Rebels lost in 1916 because they were outnumbered, outequipped and failed to gain any large areas of the country. But what if they weren't.


What if the Aud had landed? Those 20,000 rifles would have gone a long way. The Rebels now have an army similar to that of the British and on Easter Monday, not only does Dublin rise...

Monument where Shelby's men first came up to the mountain summit.



To the Kings Mountain patriot dead. James Williams listed as Col.


In post #3 Williams conduct during the battle of KM was examined. Now is time to consider the circumstances of his death....

Perilous Glory was anything but a perilous read, it was rather the opposite, quite addicitve. John France has written a very engaging and easy going account of warfare across the world since the year dot. Certainly no easy task to accomplish, and to do so, rather well in only a single volume. One might very well expect such a topic to stretch into a multi volume series to do the breadth and variance of humanity and geography justice. Yet France has done so and has avoided becoming bogged down in...

This is intended to be an introduction to the Jacobite rising of 1745, there are many misconceptions, inaccuracies and damn lies involved in the popular view of the rising. Some of these inaccuracies (this is me being generous) are as follows:-

Assumption 1 – The 1745 Jacobite rising was entirely a conflict between highlanders and lowlanders.
Incorrect. There were highlanders and lowlanders on both sides (along with Irish, English and Welsh) and French on the Jacobite side....