“He never failed us.” A story about David Foster Wallace
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, ‘The library, and step on it.'” – David Foster Wallace, writer of many novels including Infin...
Category: Story
A woman in a taxi, NYC, 1910.
The first taxi company in NYC was started in 1897 with 12 electric hansom cabs. By 1899, the company had about 100 electric cars running in the city. But in 190...
Babe Didrikson Zaharias quote about her childhood
Quote: “You never saw anybody more excited than I was that night at the railroad station in Beaumont, Texas, back in February 1930. Here I was, just a lit...
Grandmother saves Frank Sinatra at birth
Frank Sinatra was 13.5 pounds at birth. The doctor had to use forceps to make it is easier to remove baby Frank. The forceps ripped the child’s cheek, nec...
Louisa May Alcott serves as a Civil War nurse
The world didn’t know her yet as a famous writer. Little Women was still nearly a decade away. But thirty year old Louisa May Alcott wanted to help the Union in...
Albert Einstein defends Marie Curie
Albert Einstein was so impressed by Marie Curie when he met her, that when Marie was dealing with a public attack on her persona for having exchanged love lette...
Edward R. Murrow report from Buchenwald
“Permit me to tell you what you would have seen and heard had you had been with me on Thursday. It will not be pleasant listening. If you are at lunch, or...
Kazuo Otani earns the Medal of Honor
Kazuo Otani was born in Visalia, a small town of a few thousand in California, to parents who were immigrants from Japan. He was living in the Gila River War Re...
The short story of Satchel Paige
His birth name was Leroy, but people called him Satchel. It was a nickname he earned at seven years old while working at a railroad depot in Mobile, Alabama, ca...
Mark Twain love letter to his wife
Livy darling, Six years have gone by since I made my first great success in life and won you, and thirty years have passed since Providence made preparation for...
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