The ‘Real’ Pirates of the Caribbean
Edward Teach – Blackbeard He originally served as a British privateer based in Jamaica. Privateers were privately owned ships hired by the British government to attack and plunder French and Spanish ships during the war. After the war he just continued. He stole a ship Queen Anne’s Revenge and set up a base in North [...]
The Little Ice Age
Between 1400 and 1850, areas of the earth had three periods when the weather got cooler with the minima being around 1650, 1770 and 1850. Scientist term this period the Little Ice Age. While there is a disagreement on when it began, there is agreement that in ended in the mid 19th century. The Little [...]
Making a Point During War
June 28, 1776. Continental Congress was still nearly a week away from declaring the colonies independence from England. The Declaration of Independence wouldn’t be read in congress for two days. George Washington as Commander-in-chief felt that it was important to show those in his command that treason within his ranks would not be tolerated. In [...]
Facts about Delmarva
The Delmarva Peninsula occupies portions of three states. It’s named is formed from letters from Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. The peninsula has a land area of nearly 6,000 square miles. There are 2000 miles of coastline for the Chesapeake Bay, 381 miles for the Delaware Bay and 150 miles coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. The [...]
He Threw the First Pitch – Just Not Baseball
Abner Doubleday was credited in 1907 by The Mills Commission that the game of baseball was invented in Cooperstown, New York by Abner Doubleday. This was a claim that was never made by him during his life, he died in 1893, and since then has been debunked by Baseball Historian. Doubleday, who was born on [...]
She Knows No Secrets, But Has One
Carly Simon’s third albums, it is also one of her most popular, has the title No Secrets. The album also has You’re So Vain a song that has a big secret. Who is so vain and may think the song is about him? Carly Simon was born on June 25, 1945. She was born into [...]
Mama Don’t Take – Kodak Did
It was the summer of 1973 when Paul Simon begged ‘Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away’. Mama has finally taken it away. Mama is Kodak and they have announced that they will discontinue Kodachrome film. Kodak first introduced the film, which was the first successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method, in 1935. [...]
He Was Being Progressive
Theodore Roosevelt’s hand picked successor William Howard Taft turned out to be not the President that Roosevelt had expected. So Roosevelt had a change of opinion and decided that he wanted to have another term as President and ran as a candidate for the Republican Party in 1912. On June 22, 1912 at the Republican [...]
Top Movies of 1973
Clint Eastwood returns as Dirty Harry Callahan in Magnum Force. And like all of the Dirty Harry movies there is a catch line or sentiment that appears throughout the film. In this one it was, “A man has to know his limitations”. The story of star-crossed lovers played by Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand is [...]
Lewis And Clark Expedition
Beginning in 1801 the United States began an effort to bring New Orleans, which had just changed hands from Spanish to French rule, into the United States. After nearly 2 years of negotiation the United States, who had been prepared to pay 10 Million dollars to the cash starved French discovered that the entire region [...]
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