Greg Hand

Somehow, Annie Stanley’s idea became her husband’s claim to fame.

The 1916 baseball season was not the most bizarre in the history of the Cincinnati Reds. But that baseball season was rather unusual, even by Cincinnati standards.

It took a national Constitutional Amendment giving women the vote in national elections to convince Ohio voters to extend the vote to women for state and local contests.

The good news is, Cincinnati has not obliterated all of its history. Even now, some 140 years onward, you may still see about half of the "must see" tourist attractions promoted in an 1875 city guide.

They apparently had a thing for dentists.

In an age when a sample of educated Americans do not know who won the Civil War, it is unlikely that anyone in the United States today remembers the Battle of Sedan. In 1885, by contrast, there were very few people in Germanic Cincinnati who did not know about the Battle of Sedan, the turning point of the Franco-Prussian War.

"There are at least 30,000 superfluous cats in Cincinnati and 4,000,000 superfluous sparrows. Get the sparrows and the cats together and the problem is solved."

Toward the end of the 1890s, a Cincinnati man hunting in Rio Blanco County in western Colorado captured a full-grown golden eagle. The hunter brought the giant bird back home and gave it to a friend who ran a saloon "out toward the stockyards in Cumminsville."

Cincinnati has earned its reputation as an important way station on the Underground Railroad, but we must remember that slave traffic flowed both ways at the Ohio River.

While he was living in Cincinnati, Granville T. Woods, was proclaimed "the greatest electrician in the world."