TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): An elderly man remembers "when the sky fell"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): An elderly man remembers "when the sky fell": The photo is a portrait of Ka-Be-Nah-Gwey-Wence, a Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indian from Cass Lake, a town just north of Leech Lake where I used ...

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): This is a "pendulite"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): This is a "pendulite": Cave formations are fascinating.  This is one I've never heard of or seen before.  It's interesting to ponder the dynamics of how a growi...

The Treasure of Lima

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): The Treasure of Lima: As reported in The Telegraph: Shaun Whitehead is leading an archaeological expedition to Cocos Island, the supposed hiding place of...

travelling "preacher-scientist"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): George Speake - a travelling "preacher-scientist": Electricity flashes from the thimble-topped fingers of traveling “preacher-scientist” George Speake. From the 1940s into the ’60s, he wa...

Shoes made from human skin

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): Shoes made from human skin: The skin of Big Nose George, to be precise.  The Oddment Emporium has the story: In 1878, [Big Nose George] Parrott and his gang murd...

A Paleolithic "Lion Man" statuette

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A Paleolithic "Lion Man" statuette: "On August 25, 1939, archaeologists working at a Paleolithic site called Stadelhole (“stable cave”) at Hohlenstein (“hollow rock”) in sou...

A recent sighting of "Nessie"

TYWKIWDBI ("Tai-Wiki-Widbee"): A recent sighting of "Nessie": Nessie hunter George Edwards has waited 26 years for this sight, and he now believes he has the best picture ever taken of the Loch Ness...