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. [...]
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 discontinued Kodachrome film. Kodak first introduced the film, which was the first successfully mass-marketed color still film using a subtractive method, in 1935. Since it required a [...]
Top Songs of 1970
When the 1960′s ended and the 70′s began I wasn’t really listening too much to music. But when The Partridge Family debuted on ABC Television I was really exposed to music. Call it bubble gum rock, but the number 6 song I Think I Love You by The Partridge Family was top on my list. [...]
Pan Am Flight 214 – Update
A little over 2 years ago on the 45th Anniversary of the crash of Pan Am Flight 214 outside of the small Maryland community of Elkton, 6 Things to Considered published 6 paragraphs about the accident. There has been a number of comments on the post, a few by people who were directly impacted by [...]
A Christmas Carol Not Sung
A Christmas Carol by English novelist Charles Dickens was first published on December 19, 1843. It had illustrations by John Leech. The story is divided into Staves and not chapters. A stave, which is similar to a stanza, is found in music as a recurring pattern of meter and rhyme. Dickens felt this added humor [...]
Men on the Moon
On May 25, 1961 in a speech to the joint Congress, John F. Kennedy uttered these words, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth.” At the time that he spoke these [...]
December 7th – More Than a Day of Infamy
December 7, 1941 will forever be remembered as an day of infamy. It was on that day that Japan attacked the military bases on the Hawaiian Island of O’ahu. Pearl Harbor Naval Base, where many of the United States Pacific fleet were docked on that day, and Hickham Field, which adjoins the Naval Base, were [...]
Edison’s Phonograph
The United States Patent Office on February 19, 1878 issued to Thomas Edison patent #200,521 for the phonograph. Edison’s was working on two other inventions when he discovered that sound could make an indentation onto paper. He changed the paper to a tin foil wrap cylinder and found that the machine he designed would replay [...]
The Burger Has a King
James McLamore and David Edgerton opened Insta Burger King in a suburb of Miami, Florida on December 4, 1954. The idea was loosely based on the concept developed by Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California, the original McDonalds. By the end of the 1950s they had opened 5 regional stores and they decided [...]
When giving an office gift
Know the reason for giving a gift. It shouldn’t be thought of as something that you are required to do, but as giving to someone who has helped and supported you throughout the year. Even if the office has a secret Santa policy, you can give a gift to someone you appreciate. But you may [...]
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