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2/10/2016: Dakota Territory was wilder than ever on this date in 1863 when acting governor John Hutchinson issued a recruitment order in response to the U.S.-Dakota War.

2/16/2016: One of the most influential rock groups ever is arguably the Rolling Stones, a band with an expansive and far-reaching career. Their style is defined by hard, rocking rhythms combined with blues. This harder, more grunge sound distinguished then from their British contemporaries like the Beatles.

2/17/2016: The winter of 2009-2010 proved to be the 15th wettest in 115 years, even wetter than the previous winter that led to record-high flooding on the Red River. The worst storm of the winter of 2009-2010 came in January.

2/22/2016: On this date in 1884, a group of Union Civil War veterans banded together in Fargo to form John F. Reynolds Post No. 44 of the Grand Army of the Republic. The group was active in Fargo for nearly 60 years. Its members, peaking at 287 before death took its toll, engaged in state and federal events involving and memorializing veterans.

3/8/2016: On this date in 1974, the front page of the Bismarck Tribune sported a startling photo of young people leaping about naked. The headline explained that the day before, streakers frolicked by the thousands on college campuses throughout the country.

3/10/2016: Located along U.S. Highway 2 west of Devils Lake, the town of Churchs Ferry has struggled to remain intact. To passersby, at first glance, Churchs Ferry appears to be abandoned.

3/11/2016: On this date in 1935, the high temperature for Fargo was predicted to be 26 degrees with 25 mile an hour winds. But even though it was over a month until Easter, spring was on the minds of North Dakotans.

3/15/2016: Dakota Territory and Joseph M. Devine almost share a birthday. The sixth governor of North Dakota was born on this date in 1861, thirteen days after an act of Congress created Dakota Territory. Devine served five months as governor before he left in early 1899, one of many oddball stories in the state’s gubernatorial history.

3/16/2016: Roy Drawz was tired of shoveling coal to heat his Minot home, so he invented a machine to do it for him. He was no amateur in heating, for he worked as an engineer at the heating plant at Minot State Teachers College. Roy took old automobile parts and other scrap metal and built a contraption to do the job. It was crude at first, but when he installed it in his own home, it worked marvelously well, and it revolutionized heating in areas where there were large deposits of lower-grade coal, or lignite coal.

3/24/2016: In the early part of the 20th Century, horses still provided most of the horsepower. In 1915 there were over 26 million horses in the United States. Now, there’s just over 9 million. For most people, horses have disappeared from day-to-day life. But back in the day, horses were everywhere. If you wanted to ride a streetcar, buy produce shipped in from a farm, or purchase ice from the ice man, you used horses.