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10/26/2008: In 1925, young Dominick Bohn made it his goal to “see the world.” He was a youth of 16, hailing from Verendrye. But youth, he thought, was no excuse for lack of experience. So Dominick tried to make it happen.

10/29/2008: We’ve all been there before; sitting in the hospital lab, facing down the stern nurse who’s wielding a straw-like needle, hoping against hope that our glares will persuade her to not jab us with her instrument of torture. We eventually relent and feel the cold alcohol rubbed onto our arm as we listen to the ubiquitous lie told by all hospital professionals, “This will only hurt a little.” This ritual, played out in hospital labs nationwide, is a necessary evil of modern health care.

9/17/2012: On this date in 1932, a whale traveled through North Dakota.

9/24/2012: Denhoff was founded in 1901 as a Northern Pacific Railroad station in Denhoff Township, in Sheridan County. It achieved a peak population of 323 people in 1920, never organized, and today exists as a census-designated area.

10/1/2012: The trials, tribulations, and triumphs of average soldiers are often forgotten in the annals of war, for our eyes naturally settle upon the glorious victories, the bitter defeats, and the leaders whose names live on in history. Yet, it is the average soldiers who do the fighting, the marching, the dying, and their stories are just as fascinating as those more often remembered.

10/2/2012: Joseph Jordan, a Sioux of the Standing Rock Reservation, enlisted in Company I, Second Infantry of the North Dakota National Guard on July 22, 1917. He served overseas from December 15, 1917 to January 3, 1919 and was wounded during the fighting. According to General Order #5, issued from the Ist Infantry Brigade at Selters, Germany, he showed gallant conduct and self-sacrificing spirit during numerous battles in France and Germany. He was cited for his courage and awarded a Silver Star.

10/3/2012: All across North Dakota, on this date in 1899, the people were jubilant. The War in the Philippines was over and a victorious North Dakota regiment was returning home. But nowhere was the celebration more intense and the soldiers more well received than in Jamestown.

10/4/2012: On this date in 1897, the Grand Forks Herald ran an article that stated that the bed of the Red River was high and dry. In some respects, this was true; the river bed was exposed, but the river itself was not dry, just channeled into a much smaller area.

10/5/2012: Horace Greeley ordered Americans to "Go west, young man," and a group of U.S. leaders, called Annexationists, wanted to take this one step further by annexing Canadian lands and connecting Alaska to the Pacific Northwest. A rebellion in Manitoba seemed to be the opportunity the Annexationists needed.

10/7/2012: In the early years of settlement, building materials were scarce, so much of the initial construction was done with wood, which was easily transported by rail.