July 7, 2011 0 The Missing Person Living in Savannah Benjaman Kyle, pictured above, is missing. Benjaman Kyle also lives in Savannah, Georgia. If you had [...]
July 6, 2011 0 The World’s Shortest War Off the coast of mainland Tanzania is Zanzibar, now a semi-autonomous archipelago but part of Tanzania [...]
July 5, 2011 0 The Most Isolated People in the World The part of the Indian Ocean encapsulated by the eastern shore of India and the shores of Bangladesh and [...]
July 1, 2011 0 Road Rage The picture above (larger version here) was taken early one weekday morning. The tiles shown sit squarely [...]
June 30, 2011 0 Dr. Scholl’s Path to the Presidency Picoaza, Ecuador is a relatively small village near the country’s Pacific coast. With a current [...]
June 29, 2011 0 Pumping the Phone Area code 605 covers the entire state of South Dakota, the 77,000 square mile home to roughly 800,000 [...]
June 28, 2011 0 Bats and Hammers Charlie O. Finley owned Major League Baseball’s Oakland A’s from 1960 (when the team was in Kansas City) [...]
June 27, 2011 0 Tax Refund The minimum wage in the United States is $7.25 per hour. It is €6.66 per hour in the United Kingdom and [...]
June 24, 2011 0 Liquid Memories In 1969, Eric Carle wrote The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a now-classic story of a caterpillar who spends a [...]
June 23, 2011 0 Schtroumpf “Pass the salt.” That’s a rather simple sentence. Three words, three syllables, fourteen [...]