Random Thoughts by Mark Milliorn

If you walk even five feet into my house, it is rather obvious that my wife and I like books.   There are bookcases and ...

Gunpowder weapons have been used in wars for hundreds of years, but for most of that time, they were highly inaccurate and were fired in the...

Any American who has traveled in Europe or Asia is in awe of the train service there.   Train service is cheap, clean, and...

Certain words are so overused that they lose all meaning.    No matter what I write about, somebody, somewhere writes to call me a socialist...

Late nineteenth century London was a mixture of old and new:   there were horse-drawn carriages, but also, many of the wonders of the indust...

By now, there has been more printer’s ink spilled about the causes for the North’s victory in the Civil War than blood was shed by the actua...

No one is exactly sure when people began using playing cards—it was probably in China somewhere between 1000 and 1100 years ago.  There are ...