September 24, 2013 0 Where No Sandwich Has Gone Before The best part about a corned beef sandwich? Everything. They’re wonderful. Out of this world, even. [...]
September 23, 2013 0 Burrnesha For much of human history, across cultures, women were often considered second class citizens, [...]
September 20, 2013 0 Leaving Berlin Behind The First World War claimed the lives of at least 15 million people, wiping out roughly one percent of the [...]
September 19, 2013 0 Wine and Antifreeze The eleventh episode of the first season of The Simpsons aired on April 15, 1990. In the episode, titled [...]
September 18, 2013 0 Nopes The story in the paragraph below is false. Fiction. Urban legend. Made up — just not by me. In 1848, [...]
September 17, 2013 0 The Niihau Incident December 7, 1941 is, of course, Pearl Harbor Day, when the Japanese Imperial Navy struck the American [...]
September 16, 2013 0 An Arm and a Fin At 8’3″ (2.51 m), Sultan Kosen of Turkey is, according to the Guinness Book of [...]
September 13, 2013 0 Heading in the Right Direction? For much of England’s, Scotland’s, and, after unification, the United Kingdom’s history, [...]
September 12, 2013 0 Slippery When Wet The system is pretty simple. For some reason — a customer spills a drink, a jar of tomato sauce falls [...]
September 10, 2013 0 YOLO, M.D. The medical world is full of acronyms. A patient who is “DNR” has a directive [...]