FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate during the final 11 years of his tenure, including three non-consecutive years as Senate […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, January 1, 2022; Happy New Year!
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Rose Bowl Game is an annual American college football bowl game, usually played on January 1 (New Year’s Day) at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. When New Year’s Day falls on a Sunday, the game is played on Monday, January 2. The Rose Bowl Game is nicknamed […]
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Daily Almanac for Friday, December 31, 2021; the 365th and last day of the Year, Goodbye to 2021
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Evans married Roy Rogers on New Year’s Eve 1947 at the Flying L Ranch in Davis, Oklahoma, where they had earlier filmed the movie Home in Oklahoma. The marriage was Rogers’ third and Evans’ fourth but was successful; the two were a team on- and off-screen from 1946 until […]
Daily Almanac for Thursday, December 30, 2021; Day 364 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Roy Rogers Show is an American western television series starring Roy Rogers. 100 episodes were broadcast on NBC for six seasons between December 30, 1951 and June 9, 1957. The episodes were set in the prevailing times (1950s) rather than the old west. Various episodes are known […]
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, December 29, 2021; Day 363 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Fred Newton (1903 – 1992) was an American swimmer who was known for being the first person to swim the full length of the Mississippi River. Over the course of 176 days in 1930, Newton swam from Minneapolis, near the source of the Mississippi River, […]
Daily Almanac for Tuesday, December 28, 2021; Day 362 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster. It is one of the United Kingdom’s most notable religious buildings and the […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, December 27, 2021; Day 361 of the Year
COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Stephen Michael Largent (born September 28, 1954) is an American former professional football player, enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame, and a former Republican politician, having served in the U.S. House of Representatives for Oklahoma, from 1994 until 2002. Prior to his political career, Largent was a wide receiver for the Seattle […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, December 26, 2021; Day 360 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Inventor The first modern percolator incorporating the rising of boiling water through a tube to form a continuous cycle and capable of being heated on a kitchen stove was invented in 1819 by the Parisian tinsmith Joseph-Henry-Marie Laurens. Its principle was then […]
Daily Almanac for Christmas Day, Saturday, December 25, 2021; Day 359 of the Year
Christmas Day Christmas Day is a Christian holiday commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. Although the actual date of Christ’s birth is unknown, it has been celebrated on December 25 since the 4th century. Christmas is also extensively celebrated by non-Christians as a seasonal holiday, […]
Daily Almanac for Friday, December 24, 2021; Christmas Eve and Day 358 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS NORAD Tracks Santa is an annual Christmas-themed program in which NORAD conducts the tracking of Santa Claus, who is said to leave the North Pole to travel around the world on his mission to deliver presents to children every year on Christmas Eve. The program starts on December 1, but the […]
Daily Almanac for Thursday, December 23, 2021; Day 357 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS A transistor is a semiconductor device used to amplify or switch electrical signals and power. The transistor is one of the basic building blocks of modern electronics. It is composed of semiconductor material, usually with at least three terminals for connection to an electronic circuit. A voltage or current applied to one pair of the transistor’s terminals controls the […]
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, December 22, 2021; Day 356 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Edward Hibberd Johnson (January 4, 1846 – September 9, 1917) was an inventor and business associate of American inventor Thomas Alva Edison. He was involved in many of Edison’s projects, and was a partner in an early organization which evolved into General Electric. When Johnson was Vice President […]
Daily Almanac for Tuesday, December 21, 2021; Day 355 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS A crossword is a word puzzle that usually takes the form of a square or a rectangulargrid of white- and black-shaded squares. The game’s goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues, which lead to the answers. In languages that are written left-to-right, the answer words […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, December 20, 2021; Day 354 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Louisiana Purchase (French: Vente de la Louisiane, lit. ‘Sale of Louisiana’) was the acquisition of the territory of Louisiana by the United States from Napoleonic France in 1803. In return for fifteen million dollars, or approximately eighteen dollars per square mile, the United States nominally acquired a total of 828,000 sq mi (2,140,000 km2; 530,000,000 […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, December 19, 2021; Day 353 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS History There have been several precursors to suspenders throughout the past 300 years, but modern suspenders were first popularised as “braces” in 1822 by a London haberdasher Albert Thurston. They were once almost universally worn, due to the high cut of mid-nineteenth and early twentieth […]
Daily Almanac for Saturday, December 18, 2021; Day 352 of the Year
COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Thirteenth Amendment (Amendment XIII) to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime. The amendment was passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified by the required 27 of the then 36 states on December 6, 1865, and proclaimed on December 18. It […]
Daily Almanac for Wednesday, December 16, 2021; Day 349 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, in the Eastern Theater of the American Civil War. The combat, between the Union Army of the Potomac commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia under Gen. Robert E. Lee, included futile frontal attacks by the […]
Daily Almanac for Monday, December 13, 2021; Day 347 of the Year
COURTESY WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The Susan B. Anthony dollar is a United States dollar coin minted from 1979 to 1981 when production was suspended due to poor public acceptance, and then again in 1999. Intended as a replacement for the larger Eisenhower dollar, the new smaller one-dollar coin went through testing of […]
Daily Almanac for Sunday, December 12, 2021; Day 346 of the Year
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Joseph Hayne Rainey (June 21, 1832 – August 1, 1887) was an American politician. He was the first black person to serve in the United States House of Representatives and the second black person (after Hiram Revels) to serve in the United States Congress. His service included time as […]