6 Ways to a Greener Office
Use Reusable Items
Use Mugs with advertising for coffee and water. Give each employee two mugs, one to use at their office workstation and another to use at home. When serving coffee to a client or prospective client give them a mug promoting your business to take with them.
Read Then Print
For some it seems as [...]
400 and Counting
I just realized that this past Friday was the 400th post here at 6 Things To Consider. Wow, have I really done that many in the in the past 20 months. It’s been a good time and the times are just beginning. I don’t have any plans to stop.
Would I like to [...]
Did You Know? – American Geographical Oddities
Cecil County, Maryland located at the headwaters of the Chesapeake Bay is the only county that has both an eastern and a western border on the Chesapeake Bay.
Even though Los Angles is only a few miles from the Pacific Ocean and the State of Nevada is East of California, The City of Reno, Nevada [...]
Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf
On July 18, 1925 the first volume of Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf was published. The work is a combination autobiography and political ideas of the young Hitler. It was originally titled Four Years of Struggle against Lies Stupidity and Cowardice. The publisher, Secker and Warburg, retitled the work Mein Kampf or My [...]
The Great Train Wreck of 1856
It was 1856, the railroad was still in its infancy and many of the runs between towns were on single tracks. The St. Michael’s R.C. Church of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Sunday School, with as many as 1500 people, were on their way to a picnic at Fort Washington on that early Thursday summer morning [...]
Cambridge, Maryland – An Eastern Shore Town in Change
Cambridge Maryland is the county seat of Dorchester County. Cambridge was laid out as a town in 1684 and is one of the oldest towns in Maryland and on the Delmarva Peninsula. Incorporated by the State of Maryland in 1793.
As a port town it was said to have one of the safest ports in [...]
Zebulon Pike’s 1806 Expedition
After The United States under President Thomas Jefferson completed what is known as the Louisiana Purchase, the government found it necessary to explore the region. The most commonly known expedition to explore the vast ‘purchase’ is the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It wasn’t the only one. Perhaps just as important was the [...]
An American Troubadour – Woody Guthrie
When doing a google search on the term ‘An American Troubadour’ names such as Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson and even Don McLean show up on the first page. Woody Guthrie, one of the first and perhaps also one of the best of the American Troubadours, was born in Okemah, Oklahoma on July 14, 1912.
He [...]
Top Songs of the Disco Era
Near the end of the Disco Era, Casey Kasem’s America Top 40 did a countdown of the top songs of the Era. This is where this list originated. these are songs that living through the Era, are hard not to know and in some ways remember. But for me I continued [...]
Red Sox Pitcher – George Herman (Babe) Ruth
It was on July 11, 1914 that the 19 year old left handed pitcher George Herman Ruth made he first appearance for the Boston Red Sox. The Red Sox played the Cleveland Indians defeating them 4-3. In 1914 Babe Ruth would appear in 4 games starting 3 of them. He pitched 23 [...]
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