Summer of 2007 Movies That Should Have Done Better
1. 1408
2. Underdog
3. Nancy Drew
4. Becoming Jane
5. Disturbia
1935 Labor Day Hurricane.
1. When the hurricane of Labor Day 1935 hit the United States at the Florida Keys it had winds reaching 200 miles per hour with a barometric pressure recorded at 26.35, the lowest ever recorded on land. It had a 17-foot tidal surge.
2. At its inception it was only 3 to four [...]
Bill Cullen
William Lawrence Cullen was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 18th, 1920. His eyesight was poor causing him to wear thick glasses, which would become his trademark.
Cullen’s broadcasting career began in his hometown of Pittsburgh. He worked at WWSW radio beginning as a frequent, though unpaid guest on an [...]
Labor Day
The Federal Labor Day takes place on the first Monday in September. In 2007 this will be September 3rd.
The holiday began in 1882, originating from a desire by the Central Labor Union to create a day off for the “working man”.
In May 1886 there was a general strike which eventually won the eight-hour workday in [...]
Common Phobia’s – Medical Termology
1. Fear of Flying – Aviophobia
2. Fear of Flowers – Anthrophobia
3. Fear of Clowns – Coulrophobia
4. Fear of painful bowel movements – Defecaloesiphobia
5. Fear of school – Didaskaleinophobia:
6. Fear of being buried alive - Taphephobia
State of Oregon
1. Oregon was admited as the 32nd state on February 14, 1859. The State Capital is in Salem with Portland being its largest city.
2. The origin of the name “Oregon” is unknown. George R. Stewart, in a 1944 article in American Speech, determined that the name came from an engraver’s error in a French map [...]
Flowers – Myth or Fact
1. The leaves of a Poinsettia are poisonous.
Myth. There has never been a death that has been proven to have occurred due to ingestion of the leaves or any other part of the flower. The myth began in 1919 when the child of an army officers died and the poinsettia [...]
State of Minnesota
1. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the 32nd state on May 11, 1858.
2. The name comes from the Dakota language. The word Mnisota can be translated into sky-tinted water, and so named the Minnesota River. The State [...]
St. Augustine, Florida
52 years after Ponce de Leon first sighted Florida and two years after the French established a fort and colony on the St. Johns River, 600 soldiers and settlers under the leadership of Don Pedro Menendez de Aviles settled St. Augustine on September 8, 1565. Menendez destroyed the French fort resulting in the coast [...]
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