He Played Golf Where?
It took three swings before astronaut Alan B. Shepard finally hit the golf ball on February 6, 1971. What was amazing is when the swing was made he was suited in his space gear standing on the moon as part of Apollo 14. Shepard after a solid hit with a second ball stated that it [...]
Serendipity
Serendipity is defined as a discovery of something fortunate while looking for something else. The word was first used by Horace Walpole in a letter dated January 28, 1754 to Horace Mann, an Englishman living at the time in Florence. This is not the Horace Mann who was a American educator. Walpole had read a [...]
Established: 1972
One may think that Email is a fairly new form of communications however it is credited to have been invented in 1972 by Ray Tomlinson who worked for Bolt Beranek and Newman as an ARPANET contractor. By chance he picked the @ symbol to denote sending messages from one computer to another, name-of-the-user@name-of-the-computer. The Hewlett-Packard [...]
Merry Christmas
We will be taking the next few days off to enjoy the holiday with friends and family, but before we do we are: Wishing Everyone a
Items to Keep in Your Car – Winter
A first-aid kit Actually for this one the season doesn’t matter. You should always have a first-aid kit in your car. Accidents, (I’m not referring to an auto accident, but a cut finger or nose bleed) alway seem to happen when you least expect it. In the winter part of your first-aid kit should include [...]
Did You Know – Christmas
In 336 AD. Pope Julius I declared the birth and celebration of Jesus’ birthday as Christmas. He chose the day December 25th because it coincided with the pagan traditions of Winter Solstice. The idea was to bring pagans into the christian religion and selecting that day helped in this cause. No one knows the exact [...]
Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’
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 [...]
The Christmas Season
Many people are away from home or alone on Christmas. Many people will journey home during the holidays, but there are those who won’t be able to with family during the holidays. Some may not be able to afford the expenses to travel. There are others who can’t take the time off from work or [...]
The Many Names of Santa Claus
As tradition goes, at least in the United States, Santa Claus, a jolly old elf in a red suit riding a sleigh pulled by 8, or 9 counting Rudolf, comes from the North Pole traveling across the world delivering toys to all the good boy and girls. Our vision of Santa Claus comes from many [...]
Holiday Shopping Safety Tips
These are tips that Police Departments are publishing: 1) Lock your doors even after you get in the car. 2) When traveling with young children, everyone should enter on one side of the vehicle. 3) Park in a well-lit area. 4) Remember where you park. 5) Secure valuables and shopping bags inside your trunk. 6) [...]
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