I am not a sailor, so that is most likely why I did not remember. I don’t know how I would have been as a sailor. Early in my life, I had no sense of direction, and now, it seems to have gotten better. But, there are usually landmarks involved. Out at sea, there is

We know him as Ulysses S. Grant, the great Civil War General and 18th President of the United States. But his real name was Hiram. Nonetheless, he died on this day, July 23, 1885, of terrible throat cancer. Hiram Ulysses Grant was born in Point Pleasant, Ohio, on April 27, 1822, to Jesse Root Grant,

Somehow, I missed it. Yesterday was National Junk Food Day. I was unaware of this until I saw the late news, and they reported on the event. The newsman said donuts were the most popular junk food, followed by pies and ice cream. I was surprised that donuts would be number one. I don’t think

Guilty as charged. Yes, John T. Scopes was found guilty of teaching Evolution in the “Scopes monkey trial” in Dayton, Tennessee, on July 21, 1925. He was fined $100 and costs. It was quite a trial and a pretty good movie too. (Inherit the Wind, with Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, and Gene Kelly) But, there

It happens more often than one might think. It was on this date, July 20,1912, when the Philadelphia Phillies player Sherry Magee stole home in a baseball game. Not once. But twice. Sherwood Robert “Sherry” Magee was a left fielder . He played in Major League Baseball from 1904 through 1919. Fast on his feet,

You want to talk about secrets of the Universe? It was on this date, July 19, 1595, when the astronomer Johannes Kepler had an epiphany. Yes, an epiphany. Upon having the revelation, Kepler developed his theory of the geometrical basis of the Universe. All of this while he was spending time in Graz, teaching. (For

I used to be more directionally challenged than I am today. I account this to some personal shortcomings or, perhaps, character defects, which occurred for some 30 years of my life. Regardless, those went away, and my sense of direction improved greatly. I can now tell my left from my right with little interference from

The good old upgrade. We all know it in some form or another. Maybe we’ve flown the friendly skies a lot in our lives and piled up the frequent flier miles. At some point, we may have turned those in for the upgrade to First Class. Or perhaps we’d been driving around that old Pinto