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10/29/2009: United States census director William Merriam announced his preliminary findings on this date in 1900, and made many in the state of North Dakota extremely happy. Although final results of the 1900 census, the twelfth census in the history of the United States, would not be available until July of 1902, Merriam felt confident enough to issue preliminary population results so that the political implications could be dealt with.

11/1/2009: The death of Philip Hill was reported on this day in 1917 in the pages of the Jamestown Weekly Alert. The paper claimed that Hill was the “last living survivor” of the Battle of the Little Big Horn.

8/2/2008: Chaska was a well-respected Indian scout for the 1863 Sibley military expedition, highly regarded for his daring rescue of the army’s beef contractor during an Indian attack that year.

8/4/2008: Today the tentacles of the rural water pipelines are reaching out to more remote areas to ensure a supply of drinking and domestic water.

8/5/2008: Soon the summer Olympics of 2008 will commence. The best track and field athletes from around the world will run the most fairest races possible, ensured with precision clocks and exactly measured distances. However, racing has changed since its early days, before clearly defined athletic rules assured honest victories.

8/6/2008: The idea that everyone in the world is separated by six degrees or less has been around for a while, although Kevin Bacon helped to popularize it. On this day in 1948, several North Dakotans remembered and reported their own link to one of the most remembered, influential young actors of the time: They were connected to "The King of Hollywood" himself, Clark Gable, the actor perhaps most recognized for his work as Rhett Butler in "Gone with the Wind," or for his Academy Award-winning role in "It Happened One Nig

8/8/2008: On this day in 1934, residents of Devils Lake were still talking and enjoying the hype, the charisma and the excitement of seeing a national president—in fact, the first president to visit their city.

8/9/2008: Born on this day in 1823, Daniel Marsh Frost is most familiar as a brigadier general in the Confederate Army. But before the Civil War, Daniel Frost played an important role in the development of Dakota Territory.

8/12/2008: The son of a well-known Norwegian sculptor, Paul Fjelde (Fell-dee) was born on this date, August 12, 1892. In 1887 Paul’s father, Jacob Fjelde, had moved the family to Minnesota. Opening one of the first studios in Minneapolis, his father enjoyed a brief but highly successful career in the city. Following Jacob’s death in 1896, Paul’s mother moved the Fjelde family to a small homestead 45 miles northeast of Bismarck near Wing, North Dakota.

8/17/2008: In July of 1864 two men of the Wisconsin Infantry stationed at Fort Union, Robert Winegar and Ira Goodwin published the first recorded newspaper in present-day North Dakota, the Frontier Scout.