[caption id="attachment_3243" align="alignright" width="151" caption="Click here for a framed, autographed print"] [/caption] On this day in 1980, the U.S. Olympic hockey team stunned the world when they defeated the Soviet team. The Soviets without a doubt, were...
[caption id="attachment_3214" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Buster Douglas autographed this print memorializing the event"] [/caption] I'll never forget the boxing match between Mike Tyson and James "Buster" Douglas. I was 8 years old and I was allowed to...
“The shadow of a mighty Negro past flits through the tale of Ethiopia and of the Egypt the Sphinx. Throughout history, the powers of single blacks flash like falling stars, and die sometimes before the world has rightly gauged their brightness.” -W.E.B. Du Bois I've...
On this day in 1936, the first baseball players were elected to the Hall of Fame. Here they are by order of the percentage of votes they received. [caption id="attachment_3119" align="alignright" width="151" caption="Ty Cobb"] [/caption] Ty Cobb, who set 90 Major...
J.D. Salinger, author of The Catcher in the Rye, passed away yesterday, January 27th, at the age of 91. In honor of the author who wrote one of the best-selling novels of the 20th century, here are 5 random facts about J.D. Salinger. J.D. Salinger published The Catcher...
[caption id="attachment_3041" align="alignright" width="200" caption=""A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion""] [/caption] On January 15, 1870, the unofficial symbol of the Democratic Party was born in the form of a Thomas Nast political cartoon in Harper's Weekly. The...
[caption id="attachment_3026" align="alignright" width="162" caption="Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt at the Casablanca Conference"] [/caption] Today marks the 67th anniversary of the start of the Casablanca Conference, which took place from January 14-24...
On January 13, 1842, Dr. William Brydon arrived at the British garrison in Jallalabad during the First Anglo-Afghan War. This is significant because the expedition began with over 16,000 people, but Brydon was the sole survivor. It's like something out of a movie: Brydon...
The decade of the 2000s has been a tumultuous turn of events that will be remembered far into the future. We have had many accomplishments, including the mapping of the human genome, the discovery of water on the moon, and movements towards peace on the planet. Unfortunately...
