The Birth and Almost Near-Death of the Independent Baseball League
Back in the ‘80s, there was almost a second huge pro baseball league. It fell apart before a single pitch was thrown. Trying to buy a team In addition to acquiring properties and developing real estate in New York, Donald Trump spent a good d...
If you think music today is weird, think of how many bands and singing groups in pop music history that had names where, after the name of the lead singer was given, the rest didn’t make any sense without a primer. Well, here’s that long lost pri...
President George H.W. Bush, who served from 1989 to 1993, passed away at the edge of 94. Here’s a look back at the long and interesting life of the Commander-in-Chief. Near death experience As a teenager, he contracted such a serious staph in...
Ask Uncle John Anything: When Tongue Met Metal Pole
It’s one of the most famous scenes in one of the most popular holiday movies of all time. In A Christmas Story, the 1983 big-screen retelling of the embellished Midwestern Christmas recollections of humorist Jean Shepherd, a kid named Flick (Scott ...
The Heroic Toilet from the Future
That’s no understatement — for the 2.3 billion people around the world who don’t have access to sanitation, a new kind of loo could save countless lives. Flush toilets aren't everywhere Flush toilets are commonplace in the U.S. and Europe...
