May 1918. Blackstone Hotel

Taft checks in and the clerk mentions Roosevelt is eating dinner there. The two hadn't spoken in six years.

They ran against each other in 1912, splitting the Republican Party and handing the White House to Woodrow Wilson. The friendship was dead.… pic.twitter.com/jZruS7GgOw

— History With Jacob (@HistoryWJacob) May 25, 2026

The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: If you go to the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, you will find the grave of Laura Bullion. It's nice enough, but not particularly remarkable. You'd never know that Laura was the only female member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch"… pic.twitter.com/yBfRQh535y

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The Arcane Texas Fact of the Day: If you go to the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis, Tennessee, you will find the grave of Laura Bullion. It's nice enough, but not particularly remarkable. You'd never know that Laura was the only female member of Butch Cassidy's "Wild Bunch" Gang.

Laura was most likely born in Knickerbocker, Texas in 1876, though there are also claims that she was born in Arkansas or Kentucky. She was probably of German and Native American heritage.

In the 1890s, Laura Bullion was a member of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang; her cohorts were fellow outlaws, including the Sundance Kid, "Black Jack" Ketchum, and Kid Curry. For several years in the 1890s, she was romantically involved with outlaw Ben Kilpatrick ("The Tall Texan"), a bank and train robber and an acquaintance of her father, who had been an outlaw, as well. In 1901, Bullion was convicted of robbery and sentenced to five years in prison for her participation in the Great Northern train robbery. She was released in 1905 after serving three years and six months of her punishment.

Laura Bullion moved to Memphis, Tennessee in 1918, posing as a war widow and using assumed names. She supported herself as a householder and seamstress, and later as a drapery maker, dressmaker and interior designer. Her fortunes declined in the late 1940s, at which time she was without an occupation. In 1961, she died of heart disease at the Shelby County Hospital in Memphis. As I mentioned at the beginning, her final resting place is at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Memphis.

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The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles… pic.twitter.com/8XdsA2G0KP

— Echoes of War (@EchoesofWarYT) June 2, 2026

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The richest man in America signed a document that could have gotten him hanged, and when someone sneered that he was safe because no one would know which Charles Carroll to come for, he picked up the pen and told the British exactly where to find him.

His name was Charles Carroll, and the colonies were crawling with men who shared it. His own father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis. So when the Declaration of Independence came to him for signing in 1776, a delegate made a cruel little joke. He said Carroll risked nothing by signing. There were so many Charles Carrolls that the King's men would never know which one to hang.

Carroll didn't argue. He leaned over the page and added three words to his signature: "of Carrollton." The name of his estate. His address. He was the only signer in the entire room who wrote down where he lived, and he did it on purpose, so that if the British wanted to come hang the traitor, they would know exactly which door to knock on.

That is who Charles Carroll of Carrollton was.

Here is what makes the moment even sharper. He was not a man with little to lose. He was the single wealthiest man in the thirteen colonies and the largest private landowner among them. While George Washington and John Hancock get talked about as rich men, it was Carroll who topped them all. When he signed, he was wagering the biggest personal fortune in America against a noose.

And he was the last man anyone would have expected to be there at all. Carroll was Catholic. In colonial Maryland, a colony founded as a Catholic refuge that had since turned on its own, Catholics could not vote. They could not hold public office. They could not worship in public. The most educated, wealthiest man in America was, in the eyes of the law, a second-class subject barred from the very government he was helping to create. He had spent seventeen years being educated by Jesuits in France and spoke five languages fluently, and back home he still could not legally cast a ballot.

So he became the only Catholic to sign the Declaration of Independence, putting his name on a revolution that he hoped would build a country with room for men like him. That was its own enormous bet, made by a man the existing system had already shut out.

Then he simply outlived everyone.

Thomas Jefferson and John Adams both died on the same astonishing day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the Declaration. When they were gone, Charles Carroll of Carrollton was the last living signer left on earth. For six more years he was the final human link to that room in Philadelphia, the last hand that had signed, a living relic of the founding that ordinary Americans traveled to see and shake.

He finally died in November 1832 at the age of ninety-five, fifty-six years after he wrote his address on a treason document and dared the empire to come find him.

The richest man in America. The only Catholic. The last one standing. He had more to lose than any of them, every legal reason to stay quiet, and he signed his full address anyway.

We remember the names we were handed in school. We forget the man who made sure his couldn't be mistaken for anyone else's.

Which Founding Father do you think history shortchanged the most?

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The Machine gun from the Kamikaze aircraft that crashed aboard the US Battleship Missouri.

It is lodged in one of her Quad 40 mm Bofor barrels. pic.twitter.com/vzzuRDUvBe

— Hidden History (@HiddenHistoryYT) June 14, 2026

Colonel Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Sr founded the NJSP and had a son who became a general in the US Army. He had an interesting military career:

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on April 20, 1917 (88th out of 139 in his class), just weeks before the U.S.… https://t.co/FdVxGY8Rrx pic.twitter.com/AklUoxOR3D

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Colonel Herbert Norman Schwarzkopf Sr founded the NJSP and had a son who became a general in the US Army. He had an interesting military career:

He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point on April 20, 1917 (88th out of 139 in his class), just weeks before the U.S. entered World War I, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Cavalry.
His early cavalry assignment quickly changed when his unit (initially tied to the 18th Cavalry) was converted to the 76th Field Artillery. He deployed to France in May 1918 with the 3rd Infantry Division ("Rock of the Marne") of the American Expeditionary Forces and fought in the Champagne sector (Second Battle of the Marne), Aisne, and Saint-Mihiel offensives.
He was exposed to mustard gas during combat in World War I, which caused lifelong respiratory problems. He received the Purple Heart for his service.
After the Armistice, during the occupation of Germany, his fluency in German (stemming from his heritage) and strong organizational skills led to his assignment as Provost Marshal near Coblenz along the Rhine. In this role, he served as mayor and civil judge in the occupied zone while also working with the Army Transport Service and Graves Registration Service.
He resigned his Regular Army commission as a captain in July 1920 (after a posting as Assistant Provost Marshal at Fort Bliss, Texas, and selection for Border Patrol command in the El Paso District) to better support his family financiallyhis father had become disabled by arthritis. He continued serving in the New Jersey National Guard, rising to lieutenant colonel by 1926 (assigned to the staff of the 44th Division).
Recalled to active duty in September 1940 with the federal induction of the 44th Division, he was promoted to colonel in the Army of the United States and briefly commanded the 57th Infantry Brigade before General George C. Marshall personally selected him in 1942 for a key advisory mission in Iran.
In Iran starting in 1942, he reorganized, trained, and improved the effectiveness of the Imperial Iranian Gendarmerie (national police force), explicitly modeling it after the New Jersey State Police (which he had founded and led as its first superintendent). His efforts helped counter Soviet-inspired separatist movements in Azerbaijan and Mahabad; he was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal for this service. He returned to Iran in 1946 as a brigadier general.
In the late 1940s in occupied Germany, he served as Assistant Provost Marshal for the entire U.S. sector (based in the Frankfurt area). He reorganized an ineffective constabulary force, strengthened intelligence controls, and successfully dismantled a multi-million-dollar black market smuggling operation.
His commands included serving as Commandant of the School of Military Government. He also served in Italy as Chief of a Military Assistance Group supporting security for the Marshall Plan under the Atlantic Pact.
In the U.S. Army Reserve, he was promoted to major general in 1954 and appointed commanding general of the 7th New Jersey Reserve Division. He retired in 1957 after roughly 40 years of combined active-duty, National Guard, and reserve service.
Before departing for his critical 1942 Iran mission, he entrusted his West Point graduation saber to his young son (the future General H. Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.), telling him: "I'm placing this sword in your keeping until I come back."
His German language skills and cultural knowledge were repeatedly leveraged as key assets for provost marshal and occupation duties in both world wars. Later in his career (around 1953), he was involved with U.S. intelligence efforts in Iran (including aspects of Operation Ajax), helping organize security forces that influenced the later formation of SAVAK.

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THE CHINOOK THEY REFUSED TO LEAVE BEHIND

Most people know the Battle of Takur Ghar for the heroism, sacrifice, and the fierce fight that became known as Roberts Ridge.

Far fewer know the story of the helicopter that survived it.

In the pre-dawn darkness of March 4, 2002,… pic.twitter.com/vaJksChmlf

— Aircraft history junky (@AircraftJunky) June 22, 2026

Chrysler's Highway Hi-Fi, a car record player system offered as an option in their vehicles from 1956 to 1959. pic.twitter.com/bcyeyTNwmT

— Things From the Past (@pastarchive) June 24, 2026