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Baseball is considered the American pastime. Soccer, in places where it is not called “soccer,” [...]

Flip through a weekend edition of your local newspaper and there’s a good chance you’ll find a [...]

The Now I Know Weekender, April 23, 2021 Hi!  This Friday, I want to spend a few minutes sharing a story [...]

Pictured above is a Google Street View glimpse into the intersection of Rose and Prospect Streets in Hayward, [...]

If you’ve ever been to a baseball game or, for that matter, just about any other major sporting event, [...]

With just over half a million people, the Polish city of Poznań is the fifth largest in the nation. [...]

On April 15, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died, becoming the first American President to be assassinated. [...]

In 1939, American author John Steinbeck published perhaps his most famous novel, “The Grapes of [...]

In the 1840s, Ireland’s citizens found themselves literally starving to death. Potato blight struck the [...]

Hi!  A few weeks ago, I tried — and failed — to write up a list of my top 20 or so movies. I [...]