October 14, 2010 0 Japan’s First NHL Player The National Hockey League (NHL), probably the world’s premier professional ice hockey [...]
October 13, 2010 0 Distorted Worldview If you look at a common map of the world such as the one above, you are lead to believe that Africa and [...]
October 12, 2010 0 Brazilian Confederates At the close of the American Civil War, many southerners were left in ruins. For the most loyal of [...]
October 8, 2010 0 Beating the Bomb Twenty-nine year old Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima, Japan, about to return home from a business trip, [...]
October 7, 2010 0 Half Plant, Half Animal The Eastern Emerald Elysia is a green sea slug. Pictured above, one may mistake it for a leaf. In doing [...]
October 6, 2010 0 Bad Molasses On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, an informal group of would-be American revolutionaries, dumped 342 [...]
October 5, 2010 0 Pineberries Sometimes, a picture is worth 1,000 words. Other times, like now, they require more explanation. What you [...]
October 4, 2010 0 McLeaned Him Out The first major land battle of the United States Civil War was the First Battle of Bull Run. In July of [...]
October 1, 2010 0 The Cheese Stands Alone Lithuania, 1893. Charles Wainman did what many have done, before and since — he didn’t finish his [...]
September 30, 2010 0 The Taman Shud Mystery On December 1, 1948, a man’s body was found on a beach in Australia. He carried no identification. [...]