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December 30 - Happy Hubble Day 2009!
Ultraviolet image of the Andromeda Galaxy, first known to be a galaxy by Edwin Hubble on December 30, 1924 - Galaxy Evolution Explorer image courtesy NASA Today is a good day to celebrate the universe… more →
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
December 30 - Happy Hubble Day 2009!
wrote 2 days ago: Ultraviolet image of the Andromeda Galaxy, first known to be a galaxy by Edwin Hubble on December 30 … more →
A neglected, "Neglected Anniversary" - Mencken, Fillmore and the bathtub
wrote 3 days ago: Otherwise occupied, I nearly forgot: 92 years ago yesterday, on December 28, 1917, this column by H … more →
From a small butterfly...
wrote 5 days ago: Me in '83 This is my most favourite photograph of younger me. Velcro wings and shoes, you just … more →
Who invented Santa Claus? Who really wrote the "Night Before Christmas?"
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wrote 3 weeks ago: An encore post from 2007 Thomas Nast invented Santa Claus? Clement C. Moore didn’t write the famous … more →
Ice, snow, gift list and my dad
wrote 1 month ago: This season makes me think very fondly of my dad and our last minute Christmas shopping for my mom a … more →
Rap at the White House: Alexander Hamilton
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wrote 1 month ago: An Obama guest, Lin-Manuel Miranda, pushes the envelope on gangsta rap, and history teaching: You ca … more →
Jack Kilby, inventor of the computer chip
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wrote 2 months ago: KERA Television has a marvelous short film profile of Jack Kilby, who won the Nobel in physics for h … more →
The Most Beautiful Thing in the World...
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wrote 2 months ago: I think the most irresistible thing in the world is: A good story… I think the most beautiful … more →
Six Tiger Cubs grow into six Eagle Scouts
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wrote 3 months ago: Six kids from Fort Bend, Texas, did what very few did. From their start in a Tiger Cub Scout den 11 … more →
Portrait of a cartoonist at work, and the rest of the story
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wrote 6 months ago: First, go here, and look at this painting by Cindy Procious. Never heard of her? She has some nice … more →
Two million Eagle Scouts
wrote 6 months ago: Without editing, here’s the press release from Boy Scouts of America: Minnesota Teen Named 2 M … more →
Quote of the moment: Eisenhower on D-Day (encore post)
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wrote 7 months ago: [Encore post from 2007.] Soldiers, Sailors, and Airmen of the Allied Expeditionary Force: You are ab … more →
Quote of the moment: Mr. Mike's everlasting humility
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wrote 7 months ago: Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, oil on canvas painting by Aaron Shikler, 1978 - Wikimedia ima … more →
History: May 15, 1953 and the mysteries of life's beginnings
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wrote 7 months ago: May 15, 1953, saw the publication in Science of Stanley Miller’s dramatic experiment showing t … more →
Intelligent design and religion-based ignorance explained
wrote 7 months ago: Confused about intelligent design? Confused about how people with working brains could advocate int … more →
Chuck Norris and Jack Bauer not up to the memory of Thomas Baker
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wrote 10 months ago: Bauer is fictional, Norris is mostly fictional. Neither of them can hold a candle to the exploits of … more →
Beyond what is required: Another Scout earns all merit badges
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wrote 1 year ago: From Oceanside, Long Island, New York, we get brief reports of an Eagle Scout, Shawn Goldsmith, who … more →
A neglected 91st anniversary of Mencken and Millard Fillmore's Bathtub
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wrote 1 year ago: 91 years ago today, on December 28, 1917, this column by H. L. Mencken was published in The New York … more →
September 17, 490 B.C.: Athenians triumph at the Battle of Marathon
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wrote 1 year ago: A smaller, less-highly regarded force of Athenians faced a larger, better trained, more experienced … more →
