December 16, 2013 0 Not So Fast Four miles per hour. Even if you’re more familiar with the metric system, you probably can figure out [...]
December 13, 2013 0 Unbreakable Frane Selak, above, was born in 1929 in the part of former Yugoslavia which is now Croatia. Little is [...]
December 12, 2013 0 Driven To Distraction Sometimes, while driving, one comes to an intersection with lots of signs, many lanes, and a [...]
December 11, 2013 0 The Wright Place at the Wright Time On December 17, 1903, the Wright brothers took to a beach near Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, with a contraption [...]
December 10, 2013 0 The Hokey Gokey On December 31, 2007, Curtis Gokey of Lodi, California, ran into a little bit of bad luck. A municipal worker [...]
December 9, 2013 0 Inside the Button There’s a universe out there which we know about but can’t see, with literally thousands upon [...]
December 6, 2013 0 The Hobo Code Sometime in the mid-to-late 1800s, poor men, typically those finding difficulty finding jobs, took to the [...]
December 5, 2013 0 Breaking the Ice Say you’re a single, unattached person at a bar or social event. You meet someone new and start [...]
December 4, 2013 0 Coming in For a Landing Shortly after the turn of the century, humanity created flying machines which were capable of hovering over [...]
December 3, 2013 0 Mike the Headless Chicken Toss the phrase “running around like a chicken with its head cut off” (without quotes) into [...]