The world collectively hit the pause button 37 years ago on this day, holding their breath and praying for a miracle.  It was the day Baby Jessica was rescued. Jessica McClure was just 18-months old when she gained international attention.  “It was about 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, October 14 that … Jessica … playing with… Read More »

Margaretha Geertruida MacLeod was born August 7, 1876 in Leeuwarden, Netherlands.  On this day in 1917 at the age of 41, Margaretha died in Vincennes, France.  Her first 13 years of life were lived in a very privileged way due to her father’s wealth.  However, in 1889, he declared bankruptcy and their way of life… Read More »

Disney theme parks are dubbed The Happiest Place on Earth.  All throughout the Magic Kingdom are costumed workers, interacting with children and adults alike, attempting to make this the best vacation they’ve ever experienced.  For the price, it had BETTER be the best! If a person wanted to work as a costumed character, you would… Read More »

Space.  The final frontier.  These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.  Her five-year mission:  to explore strange new worlds, to seek out live and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. Every sci-fi junkie knows that those were the words spoken by William Shatner, a.k.a. Captain James Tiberius Kirk, in… Read More »

If you ate today, thank a farmer!  Today is National Farmer Day.  Here are some national statistics that might open our eyes. The number of farms in the United States for 2023 is estimated at 1,894,950, down 5,700 farms from 2022. The number of farms decreased in all sales classes except the $1,000,000 or more… Read More »

Typically, world leaders are older individuals with at least a bit of graying in their hair.  Seldom are they adolescents.  The story I’m about to tell is foreign to us – literally and figuratively.  It’s the story about a young girl who led a revolution of sorts.  Her name is Malala Yousafzai, also known in… Read More »

He was handsome by all standards, even dashing as some have written.  Slender, muscular, 6’4”, blue eyes, dark brown wavy hair.   He was intelligent, accepted into Princeton University, Julliard, Columbia University, Brown University, Cornell University, Northwestern University, and Carnegie Mellon University before choosing Cornell and, later, Julliard.  He was athletic, playing baseball, soccer, tennis, hockey,… Read More »

If I were to mention Schindler’s List, most people would at least recognize the terminology from a 1993 Steven Spielberg movie by that name.  They might know that it has something to do with Jewish people.  But most would know nothing of Oskar Schindler.  I tell you his story today because he died on this… Read More »

An estimated 200-300 people are dead.  17,450 buildings destroyed.  Over 100,000 homeless.  2,000 acres of a city burned.  And there is over $4 billion in damages (in today’s currency).  This all happened, starting on this day in 1871 with fires raging for two days in the city of Chicago.  And it all started with a… Read More »

Colin and Wyatt Yager, brothers and fishermen, captured what could be the video of the year.  While fishing the Portsmouth Harbor in Eliot, Maine, they saw a humpback whale breaching the water a couple of times.  Colin had his fishing rod in one hand and had pulled his phone out with the other, hoping to… Read More »