4-H
The website for 4-H 4husa.org says, “4-H is a community if young people across america who are learning leadership, citizenship and life skills.” It is adminstered by the Cooperative extension System of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The 4-H’s are Head, Heart, Hands and Health.
The organization serves over 9 million members in the United [...]
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 [...]
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 you [...]
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 [...]
What Will You Be Watching on June 12th
This is not a trick question advertising a special TV show, but the simple fact that June 12, 2009 is the date that over the air television will stop broadcasting the analog TV signals, that have been in use since the beginning of television, and start broadcasting completely in digital.
There has been many rumors about [...]
This happened on May 25th
Originally published on May 25, 2007:
On May 25, 1977 the movie Star Wars was released.
In 1961, as part of the State of the Union address, President John F. Kennedy announces plans to send men to the moon. “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, [...]
Flat Screen TVs and Our Kids
Reports are showing that as more families are replacing their old tube TVs with flat screens, and with it more children are being injured by having them fall on them.
Flat screen TVs are lighter than tube TVs of the same size. Most of their weight falls in a couple of inch wide area with [...]
Arlington
In a way it may seem ironic that the first soldiers buried at what would become Arlington National Cemetery would be a Confederate Prisoner of War. It was on May 13, 1864 that the first body was buried on the grounds of the confiscated home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
Then again maybe it’s [...]
Mother’s Quote
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
~ Oprah Winfrey
The only thing a lawyer won’t question is the legitimacy of his mother.
~ W. C. Fields
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
~ Irish Proverb
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do [...]
About Coffee
The history of coffee can be traced to at least as early as the 9th century, when it appeared in the highlands of Ethiopia. From there it spread to Egypt and Yemen. By the fifteenth century coffee had reached Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa then spreading to Europe, and became popular there during the seventeenth [...]
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