Happy Mothers (of Invention) Day!
They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and these women invented something so important, they’re now regarded as the “mother” of their respective field. Happy Mother’s Day to all the mothers out there, both literal and metaphoric...
The Great Myths of William Shakespeare!
April 23 is celebrated as the birthday of the Bard, William Shakespeare, quite likely the greatest writer in the English language. (Well, it’s probably Billy’s birthday — records from 1564 England are spotty, but historians are fairly certain ...
Here is a look back through history to some past candidates for the highest office in the land who honestly had very little chance of winning. WILLIAM WIRT By the 1830s, a conspiracy theory developed that said the Freemasons, a fraternal service or...
Back in the 1890s or so, the Anderson Valley was an extremely remote, sparsely populated, and very isolated farming community in northern California. The largest town there: Boonville, which lends its name to Boontling, the system of slang / secret l...
How Can Something Be Clean as a Whistle If Whistles Aren’t Clean?
There are certain phrases and aphorisms we all use that everybody seems to know…and yet, when you think about them even a little bit, you’ll realize that they don’t make a lick of sense. Here are some of those bizarre, everyday sayings…and ho...
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