Happy New Year
This was has been my New Year’s Eve post the past two years. Have a Happy New Year.
The celebration of the New Year is the oldest of all holidays. It was first observed in ancient Babylon 4000 years ago. The Babylonian New Year began with the first New Moon after the first day of [...]
There She Is, Miss America
The man who is probably best known for singing There She Is, Miss America was born on December 30, 1914. Bertram Jacobson, or as he’s better know Bert Parks, was born on that day in Atlanta, Georgia.
He was the host of the annual telecast of the Miss America contest from Atlantic City from 1955, [...]
No Longer One of the Top 2
For the first time since its release in 1977 the film Star Wars also known as Star Wars: A New Hope does not end the year as either the Number 1 or Number 2 grossing movie of all time in America. The Dark Knight starring Heath Ledger (and Christian Bale as Batman) now stands [...]
Woodrow Wilson – He Had a Few Presidential Firsts
Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States was born on December 28, 1856. he was born in Staunton, Virginia, near the location of The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library . http://www.woodrowwilson.org/
Wilson is the only President to hold a doctoral degree having received his Ph.D in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University in 1886.
On June [...]
Greening The Office
Follow The 3 R’s – Recycle, Reuse and Reduce
Everything has a beginning and the simplest beginning to creating a greener office is to follow the 3 R’s. Some of the things that you can do is; Recycle toner cartridges and paper. (Shreadded paper can be recycled too).
Use mugs and cups that display your logo [...]
The Life of Roscoe Arbuckle
For Christmas I am reprinting one of the most popular articles of the past year. Hope everyone has a Very Merry Christmas and a Joyous and New Year.
Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle was born on March 24, 1887 in Smith Center, Kansas, to Mollie and William Goodrich Arbuckle. His mother died in 1899 and his [...]
Washington Resigns
It was more than two years after the British defeat at Yorktown. The Treaty of Paris had been signed on September 3rd and the last British ship had departed New York on December 3rd when General George Washington journeyed to Maryland’s State Capital in Annapolis.
Congress was meeting in the Maryland Senate Chamber [...]
Everyone’s Mom – Barbara Billingsley
Barbara Billingsley, who is best remembered as the Mom to Wally and ‘Beaver’ Cleaver in the TV series Leave it to Beaver, was born on December 22, 1915. She was born Barbara Lillian Combes in Los Angeles, California and married her first husband Glenn Billingsley in 1941.
She divorced Glenn in 1947 after 6 [...]
Winter Solstice
The Winter Solstice occurs at the instant that the sun is the greatest distance away from the observer and their hemisphere.
The word solstice derives from Latin sol (sun) and sistere (to stand still).
During the Northern Hemisphere’s Winter, the earth is actually closer to the sun than in June/July. It is because the Northern Hemisphere [...]
Did You Know – Christmas
In 336 AD. Pope Julius I declared the birth and celebration of Jesus’ birthday as Christmas. He chose the day December 25th because it coincided with the pagan traditions of Winter Solstice. The idea was to bring pagans into the christian religion and selecting that day helped in this cause.
No one knows the exact [...]
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