Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Showing posts with label history. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2009

History and the Presidents quiz twofer

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Mental Floss has a presidential lunchtime quiz today, "Who was president when? Part 2." So I went back and found quiz 1. These a...
Monday, July 27, 2009

Those who study history ...

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In the "The Political Prisoner" by Charles Coleman Finlay in The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Sixth Annual Collection e...
Tuesday, July 21, 2009

The day after moon day when the world read the headlines

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July 21, 1969 was the day when the world woke up to the headlines of man landing on the moon , though millions watched it live as it happene...
Monday, July 20, 2009

Happy Moon Day - First photograph of man on the moon published in color

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This first photo of man on the moon published in color was a supplement to the Philadelphia Inquirer 40 years ago. My parents saved this pho...
Sunday, July 19, 2009

40 years ago, Man on the Moon headlines from the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Norristown Times Herald

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I was told today that 40 years ago when Apollo 11 landed on the moon and Neil Armstrong was about to take his historic first step I was craw...
Tuesday, May 05, 2009

Dr. Pepper Recipe from 1880 found

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I am a big fan of Dr. Pepper so news that an early notebook containing what might be an original recipe piqued my interest. I expected th...
Thursday, April 30, 2009

Guess the backs of US bills - a quiz

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Mental Floss has a quiz in which you must guess the denomination of the U.S. bill from the back without any additional information. I know...
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Friday, April 24, 2009

What's on History Channel tonight?

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Lately it seems that all shows on the history channel could have the title, "Nazi UFO's of the Bible". This infographic seems...
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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Current Reading List and Just Read List- Science Fiction, Fantasy, History and Words

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I tend to let my list of favorite authors pile up books for a while and then get them all in mass clump and then read them voraciously. At ...
Monday, October 13, 2008

If the East Coast Is American enough For Al-Qaeda, It should be American enough for ...

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Jezebel excerpted the exact quote I wanted from Sarah Vowell's interview on the Jon Stewart show on Tuesday October 7th. Sarah compla...
Saturday, September 13, 2008

Piano played by Liszt, Schumann and Brahms at the Las Vegas Liberace Museum

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When we were in Las Vegas we went to the Liberace Museum . Besides all of the costumes and Liberacinalia there is also a collection of pian...
Monday, January 07, 2008

Are you a Nerd? Of course you are, you're reading this.

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You always knew you were a nerd, but just what kind are you? As always the Internet comes to the rescue with a fun quiz. My results may not...
Thursday, October 04, 2007

Sputnik and 50 years of satellites

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Unless you live under a rock you know that 50 years ago today the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1 , was launched by the Soviet Union. ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Filpot, Kilpot or Shellpot - The history of Shellpot Creek on maps.

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The creek that flows through my backyard that is currently called Shellpot Creek, wasn't always called that, it didn't even always e...
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Friday, June 08, 2007

Lincoln letter found whose instructions would have ended the civil war sooner if followed.

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Yahoo reports that an original letter written by President Lincoln to Major General Henry Halleck written on July 7th ,1863 was found at t...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

I will never be president!

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I failed miserably at this presidential quiz. I have a knack for picking the wrong answers it seems. THE PRESIDENTIAL QUIZ: Just how presi...
Thursday, January 04, 2007

Madmen from history

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Is there ever a time in history when we aren't generating more lunatics and madmen? In case you want to place yourself in context with ...
Monday, January 01, 2007

Your house location in historical context

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I have always been fascinated with what was where my house is before my house was there. The last house I lived in was built on land that b...
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