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 [...]
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 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 [...]
Lesser-known famous African-Americans
Hiram Rhoades Revels (1822-1901) Revels was born a free man of African-American and Indian descent in North Carolina, a slave state. Revels was ordained as a minister by the African Methodist Church ministering in many states before eventually settling in Baltimore Maryland. During the Civil War he lend his support for the Union cause in [...]
It’s More than Dad’s Day
We are less than a week away from Father’s Day. Have you planned on what you may want to do with your Dad? Time passes too quickly and changes occur too fast. Enjoy the time you have with your Dad and life in general. It will all change in too quick of a time and [...]
The Would Be First Lady
The election of 1828 was not a pretty election. It was a rematch between the same candidates of the 1824 contest between John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson. Jackson felt he should have been the incumbent since he had received the most popular votes as well as Electoral votes. However none of the top four [...]
A Political Town
Federalsburg, Maryland is located in southern Caroline county on the Delmarva Peninsula at the headwaters of the Marshyhope Creek. The creek flows into the Nanicoke River and was known in colonial times as a northwest fork of the Nanticoke River. In 1789 a store was established there around a bridge that was used for traffic [...]
Famous Yogiisms – Quotes of Yogi Berra
Yogi Berra is one of the best catchers to play the game of baseball. During his career he won the American League Most Valuable player three times and with the New York Yankees appeared in fourteen World Series winning ten. After he retired from playing the game he became the manager of the Yankees and [...]
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