March 29, 2017 0 The Slave Who Spied on the Traitor In the summer of 1781, General George Washington led the American Continental Army on march southward toward [...]
March 28, 2017 0 China’s Temporary Love Affair with the Mango Mangoes — the fruit — are indigenous to South Asia, and about 40% of the world’s mango [...]
March 24, 2017 0 The Weekender, March 24, 2017 1) “Missing Richard Simmons,” a podcast. Total listen time is about three hours and 15 minutes, [...]
March 23, 2017 0 The Masterpiece Hidden in Plain Sight You can be forgiven if you’ve never played the board game “Masterpiece,” pictured above. Originally [...]
March 22, 2017 0 Why Marylanders Pay More for a Little Less Beer Pictured above is a can of Budweiser beer — standard looking, except if you look closely at the [...]
March 21, 2017 0 The Padre for Life The baseball player pictured above is named Matt LaChappa. As of this writing, LaChappa is a free agent [...]
March 20, 2017 0 The Red Light With a Very Long Wait The intersection pictured above, via Google Maps (here), is from the German city of Dresden. The vehicle [...]
March 17, 2017 0 The Weekender, March 17, 2017 1) “Escape to Another World” (1843 Magazine, 17 minutes, April 2017). The sub-head: “As [...]
March 16, 2017 0 A Not-So-Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Funeral On February 22, 2015, a woman named Noela Rukundo was outside of her home in Melbourne, Australia, waiting [...]
March 15, 2017 0 The Invisible Wall Around Most of Manhattan The photo above (via Slate) looks like a picture of a lamppost and a church steeple against a somewhat cloudy [...]