On April 1, 2006, 27-year-old Brian Shaffer was ready for Spring Break. Life for a medical student is never easy and most students will tell you that finals weeks can be particularly brutal with students cramming for important exams and pulling all-night study sessions. Brian wasn’t one to complain, but when he met his father, […]
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True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
In 1884, there were riots in the streets of Cincinnati unlike anything they had ever seen before. Sure, there had been riots in the past, but nothing like this. People had been upset before – Cincinnati was changing (and expanding) and not everyone liked the direction it was heading. But now, people were starting to
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History, True Crime
The year is 1863. The place is not Ohio, but Hamburg, Germany. This is where we first meet Professor Otto Lidenbrock and discover that he’s just found an ancient manuscript written in some kind of Runic Script by some nearly forgotten alchemist, Ana Saknussemm. Once translated, it tells of a vast subterranean world. Before long,
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
John Cleves Symmes was born in Riverhead in the Province of New York to Timothy Symmes and Mary Cleves and lived what most would consider a rather normal childhood, growing up in Colonial America. Little did he know at that time that one day his name would be spoken by school children (probably mostly in
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
Augustus West was born into slavery in Madison County, Virginia on March 20, 1814, but moved as either an escaped or freed slave (history isn’t entirely certain to which one it is) to Ohio in 1837. Before long, he built himself a mansion and began to create a settlement for people like himself, which prospered
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History, Ohioans You Should Know, People
If you ever found yourself driving east on New Vienna Road from the town of New Vienna, you would soon come across a road named Gist Settlement Road. It doesn’t look like much – just another country road with a few houses off in the distance, but the unusual name of the road might catch
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Ghost Towns and Lost Places, History, Places
When I was reading the story of Thomas D. Carr, what struck me the most was the idea that if these events were to have played out today, as opposed to 1869, things would have been played out very differently. Then again, that can be said about a lot of nineteenth century events. Louisa Fox
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History, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved
There aren’t many places with the name “Cincinnati” so I have to ask, where did the name come from and what does it mean?
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Places, What's In A Name
The film industry is a weird thing. In some ways, not much has changed in the past one hundred years. Yet, at the same time, Hollywood today couldn’t be more different than it was in the 1920s. Some of the best examples of this can be seen within the memory of an Ohioan You Should
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Ohioans You Should Know, People
In 1996, Jenifer Lee Barrett McCrady was living in Belpre, Ohio (a short way downriver from Marietta) and living a decent life, according to friends. After she graduated from college, she worked as a nurse and seemed to truly enjoy her job. Her husband was a State Trooper, and the couple were raising two kids.
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People, True Crime, Unsolved Unresolved