The 2020 Summer Olympics have definitely been the strangest one in our lifetimes with no spectators cheering on the athletes—not to mention that it’s no longer 2020.

The 2020 Summer Games, however, can not compete with the gold medalist for weirdest Olympic ever—the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis.

Read all about it in the August edition of The Throwback, my monthly history e-newsletter.  Also inside, another Revolutionary War artifact discovered in someone’s house and the new battle over the Alamo.