Eiffel Tower – A French Eyesore
On March 31, 1889 the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated. It opened a little over a month later on May 6th. The tower is named for its designer, engineer Gustave Eiffel. It took two years to built the tower and was used as the entry arch for the 1889 World’s Fair that marked the 100th anniversary [...]
Did You Know? – American Geographical Oddities
On March 29, 1848 Niagara Falls stopped. For thirty hours the water of the falls ran at a trickle then just as suddenly as they stopped they started again. High winds caused the ice fields of Lake Erie to move the millions of tons of ice towards the source of the river. The ice blocked [...]
Character Actor – Strother Martin
March 26th is the 88th anniversary of the birth of Strother Martin. You may not know who he is, but nearly everyone is aware of his most famous movie line, “What we’ve got here is … failure to communicate” from the 1967 movie Cool Hand Luke. Martin’s part in the movie was a minor one [...]
Reasons to work from home
Freedom If you are working for yourself you don’t have to worry about many things by working at home. One major advantage is the flexibility of working the hours that fit your schedule. Less Stress Since many of the routine pressures of having to get up, commute to work and follow the rules of the [...]
Saving Energy
It’s spring and following these tips about saving energy will help you clean the environment. 1) Keep filters on furnaces or air conditioners clean. Many systems are recommended to have the filters replaced or clean once a month. 2) Clear dirt and dust from the coils of refrigerators and freezers. Having them clean allows them [...]
The Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is a large body of water located on the Atlantic coast of the United States. The States of Maryland and Virginia border the Chesapeake Bay and the bay has a major economic impact on both of those states. The Chesapeake Bay is 200 miles long with its widest point being 35 miles [...]
Flowers – Myth or Fact
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 was thought to have been [...]
Springing Ahead
For those who don’t know the rhyme we spring ahead an hour in the spring and fall backward one hour, in the fall. Some people mistakenly call it Daylight Savings Time, but it is Daylight Saving Time. There is not ‘S’. In 2007 with the Energy Policy Act of 2005 that President George Bush signed [...]
19th Century People
On March 7, 2010 Mary Josephine Ray died. To her friends and family Mary Ray was a special person. And had it not been for the fact that she was the oldest person living in the United States, she would still be unknown to many of us. When she died she was considered to be [...]
Alice of Wonderland
There is a lot of buzz about the new Alice in Wonderland movie. The film directed by Tim Burton, written by Linda Woolverton, and stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover, Michael Sheen and others is not a retelling of the original books, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the [...]
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