TODAY’S ALMANAC Question of the Day How does a person get rid of slugs?First, trap them. Go out to the garden in the late afternoon and lay boards or pieces of cardboard on the bare soil around your plantings. In the morning, turn over the boards […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, KG, OM, CH, TD, DL, FRS, RA (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during the Second World War, and again from 1951 to 1955. Best known for his wartime leadership […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Natalie Wood (born Natalie Zacharenko, July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress and model who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. She was the recipient of four Golden Globes and three Academy Award nominations. Born in San Francisco to […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Earth Day is an annual event on April 22 to demonstrate support for environmental protection. First held on April 22, 1970, it now includes a wide range of events coordinated globally by EarthDay.org (formerly Earth Day Network) including 1 billion people in more than 193 […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Hot Springs National Park is an American national park in central Garland County, Arkansas, adjacent to the city of Hot Springs, the county seat. Hot Springs Reservation was initially created by an act of the United States Congress on April 20, 1832 to be preserved for future recreation. Established […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Thomas Charles Longboat (July 4, 1886 – January 9, 1949, Iroquois name: Cogwagee) was an Onondaga distance runner from the Six Nations Reserve near Brantford, Ontario and, for much of his career, the dominant long-distance runner. He was known as the “bulldog of Britannia” and was a soldier in the Canadian Expeditionary Force (CEF) during the First […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Catherine Nyambura Ndereba (born 21 July 1972) is a Kenyan marathon runner. She has twice won the marathon at the World Championships in Athletics and won silver medals at the Summer Olympic Games in 2004 and 2008. She is also a four-time winner of the Boston Marathon. Ndereba broke […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary c. 30 AD. It is the culmination of the Passion of Jesus, preceded by Lent (or Great Lent), a 40-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance. […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Annie Oakley (born Phoebe Ann Moses; August 13, 1860 – November 3, 1926) was an American sharpshooter who starred in Buffalo Bill‘s Wild West show. Oakley developed hunting skills as a child to provide for her impoverished family in western Ohio. At 15, she won a shooting […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Raymond Albert Kroc (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984) was an American businessman. He purchased the fast food company McDonald’s in 1961 and was its CEO from 1967 to 1973. Kroc is credited with the global expansion of McDonald’s, turning it into the most successful fast food corporation […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Jarry Park Stadium (French: Stade Parc Jarry[stad paʁk ʒaʁi]) is a tennis stadium in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was formerly a baseballstadium, home to the Montreal Expos (now Washington Nationals), from 1969 to 1976. The Expos were Major League Baseball‘s first Canadian franchise. It served as a temporary home (for […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Frederick Steven Couples (born October 3, 1959) is an American professional golfer who has competed on the PGA Tour and the PGA Tour Champions. A former World No. 1, he has won 64 professional tournaments, most notably the Masters Tournament in 1992, and the Players Championship in 1984 and 1996. In August 2011, he won his first senior major at […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS The League of Nations (French: Société des Nations [sɔsjete de nɑsjɔ̃]) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organization ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (/ləˈsæl/; November 22, 1643 – March 19, 1687), was a 17th-century French explorer and fur trader in North America. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. He is best known for an early […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor, film director, producer, and composer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone‘s “Dollars Trilogy” of Spaghetti Westerns during the […]

The Atlantic 10 Conference has made bold moves over the years to secure its standing as one of the premier athletic conferences in college basketball. They recently made a move that no other conference was considering. They added new Division I Bellarmine University as the […]

Question of the Day Where did the phrase “mad as a hatter” come from? Why was the “hatter” considered mad?Madness was not a prerequisite for the milliner’s craft, but, unfortunately, in the 19th century mercurous nitrate was used in the making of felt hats, and it […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Ben-Hur is a 1959 American religious epic film directed by William Wyler, produced by Sam Zimbalist, and starring Charlton Heston as the title character. A remake of the 1925 silent film with a similar title, it was adapted from Lew Wallace‘s 1880 novel Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ. The screenplay is credited […]

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Juan Ponce de León (/ˌpɒns də ˈliːən/, also UK: /ˌpɒnseɪ də leɪˈɒn/, US: /ˌpɒns də liˈoʊn, ˌpɒns(ə) deɪ -/, Spanish: [ˈxwam ˈponθe ðe leˈon]; 1474 – July 1521) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador known for leading the first official European expedition to Florida and serving as the first governor of Puerto Rico. He was born in Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain in 1474. Though little is known about […]