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This day is always special for me. An anniversary of a personal sort. So find it extremely fitting that my little bit of fact-finding should fall on this date. Because on this very day, another extraordinary event occurred. On March 4, 1924, “Happy Birthday to You” was first published. It made its debut appearance in […]

People throughout history have had to endure some pretty tough circumstances. I’ve written here many times about the horrible reality of slavery. It has tarnished our country’s past. And many other places around the world. People abusing other people in the worst way. And there seems there may be no forgiveness for this sin, as

I’m here to tell you about some places.Not just a couple of places, but a whole big bucket-filled-to-the-rim places. The Atlas Obscura recently published a Map of Wonders. Well, that’s the title I came up with, as I don’t think their name is all that great. They have called it “The definitive map of the

Let’s be cheesy. Because most everyone likes cheese.Most. If you don’t like cheese, you might be defective. I’m joking. Of course, cheese isn’t for everyone. But according to a recent survey, 96 percent of Americans are cheese eaters. Most of these people would rather give up their cell phones for one week or forego coffee,

I like to say the name out loud. Abacus. But every time I hear its name, I am thrust back to my early grade school years when I was first introduced to the abacus. But first. What exactly is an abacus?I’m here to tell you. It is a tool. A tool of calculation. The abacus

How we shape things. One man who thought about this was Henry Moore. He was an English sculptor who took a different approach to the art form. His pieces were organically shaped and abstract. He impacted the way we see sculpture today. But I’m not here to talk about his sculpting. I was struck by

What a rube. We don’t hear this much anymore — people calling other people rubes. By definition, a rube is an awkward unsophisticated person. They are defined as being a naive or inexperienced person. Webster simply calls a rube a country bumpkin. But what happens when that is your name? That was the case with

This post was recently shared with me on Facebook. It was written by a man named Harold Strunk and originally appeared on the McCreary County, Kentucky Group on Facebook. I was touched after reading this in so many ways. It speaks to a different time, in the not-so-distant past, when the world was slower and,