Therese Morin – Medium

Pinned

Therese Morin
in
Focus On History

The Mystery of the Mary Celeste

The ill-fated journey of a well-known ship

13 min readMar 5, 2020

--

1

The Mary Celeste

--

1

Therese Morin

The Man who Created Universal Medicare

… and how does he relate to Kiefer Sutherland?

6 min readOct 1, 2020

--

3

Photo of Kiefer Sutherland

--

3

Therese Morin
in
Focus On History

Wim Overslept through his Olympic Trials

Allegedly

3 min readSep 9, 2020

--

--

Therese Morin
in
Focus On History

Troy Invented the Bear Suit

He even tested it by having a swinging 300 lbs log hit him!

7 min readSep 3, 2020

--

Grizzly Bear (Ursus Arctos) — Extinct 2012

--

Therese Morin
in
Focus On History

The Influenza Pandemic of 1918–19

aka the Spanish Flu

16 min readAug 6, 2020

--

Emergency hospital during the Influenza epidemic, Camp Funston, Kansas

--

Therese Morin
in
Focus On History

When Mount Vesuvius destroyed Pompeii

An eye witness describes what he saw.

11 min readFeb 9, 2020

--

The destruction of Pompeii

--

Therese Morin
in
Focus On History

What happens when an ice storm comes to town

What had taken human beings a half a century to build took Mother Nature only a matter of hours to knock down!

4 min readFeb 5, 2020

--

Great Ice Storm of 1998

--

Therese Morin

Submitting to Focus on History

ABOUT FOCUS ON HISTORY

2 min readFeb 2, 2020

--

Submit to Focus on History

--

Therese Morin

Gold mine sold for just $12.50!

A risky $12.50 investment that sparked a gold boom!

4 min readJan 23, 2020

--

2

Le Roi Mine, Rossland, B. C. by Lewis M. Roberts at Wikipedia.org

--

2

Therese Morin

Mr. Banff and the Tilikum

Norman Luxton was immortalized as one of Canada’s most memorable characters

4 min readJan 11, 2020

--

The Tilikum

--

Therese Morin

Therese Morin

I am a history and trivia fan. I am Canadian and Canada is my focus, but now and then I write about something else. https://BiteSizeCanada.org/

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams