November 9, 2011 0 Liquor, Sicker The 18th Amendment to the United States Constitution went into effect in 1919, and early the next year, [...]
November 8, 2011 0 Earth 2.0 Superman hails from a planet called Krypton, an Earth-like planet of (superpowered) Earth-like people. As the [...]
November 7, 2011 0 Murder, He Wrote It is not uncommon for police detectives to, informally at least, employ the assistance of reporters when [...]
November 4, 2011 0 Bombs Away The Mark 15 hydrogen bomb, pictured above, is a thermonuclear bomb weighing a relatively light 7,600 [...]
November 3, 2011 0 Ignution Before wax became widely available and at a relatively inexpensive price, many candles were made of tallow [...]
November 2, 2011 0 Septuagenarian On Board In September of 1984, the Safety 1st Corporation began marketing a suction-cup affixed sign which parents [...]
November 1, 2011 0 Waterfall to Nowhere Judge C. R. Magney State Park is in Minnesota, east of Duluth, sitting just off the north shore of Lake [...]
October 31, 2011 0 Building, Apart In 2005, the United States Supreme Court heard the case of Kelo v. City of New London. The city was [...]
October 28, 2011 0 Soothsaying Crossword The above crossword puzzle was published in the New York Times on November 5, 1996 — or, in the [...]
October 27, 2011 0 Double Irish It sounds like a type of coffee, a stiff drink, or if you run it through Google Image Search, a quilt pattern [...]