Monday marks the 158th anniversary of the Hubert-Hunt Duel, one of the now-forgotten ‘minor duels’ that is never mentioned except as a footnote. So overlooked is the incident that I wasn’t even able to find out what the substance of the disagreement was that drove the two “friends” to fight to the death. What we […]
Johnny Depp plays an ‘Undead’ Legislator?
Assemblyman Barnabas Collins of Butte County hasn’t been this interesting in at least a century. Don’t feel bad if you’ve never heard of him. Although he had a unique name (he seems to have been the only ‘nonfiction’ person with that name), Collins died almost immediately after being sworn into office and became our shortest-serving […]
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