Mark Twain’s impression of the Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids Plank Road was that 'It would have been good if some unconscionable scoundrel had not now and then dropped a plank across it.'
An interesting piece of history that also tells a story of its day sits in a rural area of southern Michigan and lies just beneath a busy interstate highway
Over the years, we have heard of some creative ways that law enforcement gets a "one up" on criminals, but this one takes the cake. Well, the wedding cake I suppose.
The modern Olympic Games began in 1896 in Athens, Greece, reviving a very different form of the ancient games that used to take place in Olympia, Greece between 800 BC and 400 AD.