I’m late getting this posted, but for the record, today, February 22, is Washington’s actual birthday. The Washington’s Birthday holiday in the United States is observed on the third Monday in February, which never actually falls on Washington’s birthday. But … Continue reading
This famous image of the Moon was shot on Christmas Eve 1968 from lunar orbit by Apollo 8 astronaut William A Anders in the Apollo 8 command module. He and his crewmates Frank Borman and James Lovell were the first … Continue reading
Maybe they know better and they’re just saying this stuff to get on YouTube? Link: https://youtu.be/kyhCOPh48ew In fairness, a lot of people probably did answer the questions correctly besides the vacationing Italian and were simply left out of the video, … Continue reading
At the end of November in 1917 new chalkboards were installed on top of old ones in a school in Oklahoma City, leaving untouched what had been written and drawn on them. More than 97 years later, a few days … Continue reading
I’m normally a fan of Hank and John Green’s YouTube empire. Granted, their Mental Floss channel occasionally gets things wrong or at least wrong enough that one can reasonably complain about it, but rarely do they commit an error of … Continue reading
About a week ago I had a conversation with someone who thought that crime was on the rise in the U.S., not long before I coincidentally came across this video addressing that and other misconceptions. It’s worth a few minutes … Continue reading
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Here’s some more evidence the Republican Party has drifted far to the right from its traditional conservative positions in the 1950s. All these positions are found in the Republican Party platform of 1956: We are proud of and shall continue … Continue reading
For Labor Day in 1956 the Young Republicans produced this poster celebrating American workers: This seems so remote from the ideas espoused by many of today’s radicalized Tea Party Republicans that you might think it’s a joke, but in fact … Continue reading
I’ve long been a fan of ElectoralVote.com and the usually intelligent commentary from the quasi-anonymous “Votemaster” behind it. But an item in the November 15 edition contained the following assertion: (Actually, the Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free any slaves because there … Continue reading