by B.L. Unkel | Apr 13, 2024 | Travel
Do you know what happened in the early morning hours of April 15, 1912? That’s when the unsinkable ship, the RMS Titanic, sank. Information about this doomed vessel and many of its passengers is abundant. But there’s one story you may not yet have heard. Jenny...
by B.L. Unkel | Mar 9, 2024 | Everything Else
Tonight—well, technically tomorrow morning—we’ll lose an hour as we set our clocks forward to Daylight Saving Time (DST). What do you know about it? Benjamin Franklin If you ever saw the movie “National Treasure,” you heard the main characters credit Benjamin...
by B.L. Unkel | Feb 24, 2024 | Everything Else
The 2024 Major League Baseball (MLB) season opened this week. That makes today the perfect time to talk baseball caps. History Baseball’s first “official” team, the New York Knickerbockers (formed in 1845), adopted the first official team uniform and hat in...
by B.L. Unkel | Feb 10, 2024 | History
Today’s technology provides a variety of ways to deliver news and entertainment immediately to people around the world. In the past, and especially over long distances, there was only one way to do that—radio. The History The invention of the radio wasn’t a...
by B.L. Unkel | Feb 3, 2024 | Writing
Popeye the Sailor debuted in the comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929. Here’s a look behind the scenes at one of the most loved and iconic cartoon characters of all time. The Creator As a youngster, Chester, IL native, Elzie Crisler Segar showed a...
