December 19, 2014 0 Ye Olde Mispronunciation Pictured above is the sign for a Mexican restaurant called “Ye Olde Taco House #1,” found via a Google [...]
December 18, 2014 0 You Know It If They See It The issue of pornography finds its way in front of American courtrooms every once in a while. This happens [...]
December 17, 2014 0 Spite Thy Neighbor Pictured above is two or three houses, depending on how one defines the term “house.” The middle [...]
December 15, 2014 0 The Long But Not the Short of It The Guinness Book of World Records is the de facto standard-bearer for, well, world records. If you want to [...]
December 11, 2014 0 The Lake That Killed Its Neighbors Lake Nyos, pictured above, is located in western Cameroon, tucked away near the Nigerian border. [...]
December 10, 2014 0 Transposition Position In early December, 2005, a Japanese telecom company called J-Com made its debut on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. [...]
December 9, 2014 0 Door Jammed It was around 2:45 A.M. on November 5, 1995. Then-Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien and his wife, Aline, [...]
December 8, 2014 0 Mr. Peeler For the better part of two decades — well into his 70s — Joe Ades followed the same routine. [...]
December 4, 2014 0 Attack of the Killer Potatoes Potato chips are a go-to snack food ever since their creation in the late 19th century. The origin story of [...]
December 3, 2014 0 The Immovable Ladder The Old City of Jerusalem is home to many sites of significance to many different religions. One of [...]