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Fireflies are actually beetles. Did you know this? I didn't. We used to catch them and put them in a jar with holes punched in the...

Jackie wrote a couple of posts on "Observations from the Knee-Deep South" you might enjoy.  Click HERE to get there.  I haven...

Entertainers who were boxers in the early days of their careers include Roy Clark, Bo Diddley, Bob Hope, John Huston, Martin Lawrence, Ryan...

The phrase "the whole 9 yards" derives from World War II combat pilots in the South Pacific. Their planes were armed with machine...

There are some 50 different species of sea snakes, and all of them are venomous. They thrive in abundance along the coast from the Persi...

A man’s brain is only 2 percent of his body weight, while a woman’s brain makes up 2.5 percent of her body weight a full 25 percent more.

The first toilet ever seen on TV was on the comedy series Leave It to Beaver.

Cooking and salad oils could lubricate machinery, such as cars and boats, according to Penn State chemical engineers. Tests found that when...

On February 22, 1989, Barbara Jo Rubin became the first female jockey to win a horse race. She rode Cohesian to victory at Charlestown Race...

I've been watching, experiencing more appropriately, the tribute to Levon Helm that I recorded on the DVR from public television.  I...

All of a sudden I noticed those orange underlined links on my posts that I didn't put there.  Anybody know how to get them off and make ...

Well, it seems that I had about ten years of blogging in me.  I started my first one in 2002 and wrote regularly for quite a while.  During ...

President Obama's Inaugural Speech was more than I even hoped for yesterday!  This is the man I voted for!  When he included Seneca Fall...