Read about the reaction when, in Iowa 2005, fortune cookie lucky numbers caused 25 times more players to win the state lottery than anticipated. You know how at the end of a Chinese restaurant meal you get a little fortune cookie to crack open with some lucky numbers and wise words of oriental counsel inside?... Continue Reading →
Iowa’s Route 6 – The Road Built in an Hour, 1910
To build a solid, major road, hundreds of miles long in one hour defies belief, but that is what the Iowa State authorities performed in 1910. Read how they pulled it off. In the USA in 1910 the motorcar’s popularity was really taking off with the launch of the Model T Ford two years earlier.... Continue Reading →