December 11, 2013 0 The Wright Place at the Wright Time On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers took to a beach near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with a contraption [...]
December 10, 2013 0 The Hokey Gokey On December 31, 2007, Curtis Gokey of Lodi, California, ran into a little bit of bad luck. A municipal worker [...]
December 9, 2013 0 Inside the Button There’s a universe out there which we know about but can’t see, with literally thousands upon [...]
December 6, 2013 0 The Hobo Code Sometime in the mid-to-late 1800s, poor men, typically those finding difficulty finding jobs, took to the [...]
December 5, 2013 0 Breaking the Ice Say you’re a single, unattached person at a bar or social event. You meet someone new and start [...]
December 4, 2013 0 Coming in For a Landing Shortly after the turn of the century, humanity created flying machines which were capable of hovering over [...]
December 3, 2013 0 Mike the Headless Chicken Toss the phrase “running around like a chicken with its head cut off” (without quotes) into [...]
December 2, 2013 0 Six Monkeys, One Month Grab enough monkeys, enough time, and enough typewriters — an infinite amount of each, [...]
November 27, 2013 0 It’s a Gas The phrase “it’s a gas” can be used to denote that an activity is a lot of fun. The origins [...]
November 26, 2013 0 The Ice Man Cometh The Tenana River is a 584 mile (940 km) waterway flowing northwesterly in Alaska. It starts near the [...]