51 minutes ago Twice in four days people have spotted turtles in my neighborhood. Both were a pretty good distance away from water but headed that way. And I’m talking good size turtles, about a foot in diameter and tails about six inches long. Never saw that before in my area. Maybe all the rain had something to do with it?
Yesterday NASA has picked eight new astronauts, half of them women. And that’s the highest percentage of female astronaut candidates ever selected for a class. There were 6,100 applicants.
NASA says they choose their astronauts based only on skill and qualifications. It has nothing to do with gender.
2 days ago For more than 125 years, it has stood in New York harbor as a symbol of personal rights and freedom, especially for the millions of immigrants who passed it to begin their new lives in this country. It was on this day in 1885 that Lady Liberty arrived in New York in more than 200 boxes as a gift from France. It took about a year to put it together and it was dedicated in a ceremony by President Grover Cleveland.
5 days ago She was a Buffalo school teacher and later principal of School 31 on Emslie Street and she thought kids should know about the American flag. Sarah Hinson wanted her students to know what it stands for, so she taught them how to pay respect to the flag by reciting the pledge of allegiance and on June 14, 1891, she began the tradition of a formal ceremony of saluting and honoring the flag on the anniversary of the day that the Continental Congress accepted the design of the American flag.
6 days ago We were talking off the air yesterday about uses for Coca-Cola other than drinking, and there’s an interesting list of things you can do with it.
1 week ago We dare you -- just try. We bet you can't make Sober Sue laugh.
Basically that was the premise of a stunt at the Hammerstein Victorian Theatre in New York in 1907. The theatre offered $1,000.00 to anyone who could get Sober Sue to crack a smile. During the intermission of whatever show happened to be playing at the time, Sober Sue would appear on stage and you could tell your best jokes and funniest stories trying to get her to laugh.
2 weeks ago He had a reputation for, let’s say, over-drinking, and that’s why he never was invited to appear on the Grand Ole Opry. But when Hank Williams recorded a huge number one hit with “Lovesick Blues” and appeared on the Opry’s biggest competitor – the Louisiana Hayride radio show the Opry had no choice but to invite him.
2 weeks ago I’m not sure who you’d compare him with today because he was so many things and he did them so well. Ben Franklin was one of America’s founding fathers and signed the Declaration of Independence. He was also an author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, musician. He was expert chess player and he even was the country’s first Postmaster General. But his words of wisdom are amazing and they apply to this day.
2 weeks ago Today is National Doughnut Day – the 76th annual – a fundraising day for the Salvation Army that began in Chicago during the Great Depression in the 1930s. It honors military veterans and recognizes the work of Salvation Army volunteers who used doughnuts to comfort American soldiers in France and Germany during World War I.
2 weeks ago Officially it was known as Operation Overlord – we know it as D-Day. It’s the largest military assault from the sea in history. It’s the day 176,000 American, British and Canadian troops began storming the beaches of Normandy, France to begin the liberation of Western Europe from the control of Nazi Germany.
2 weeks ago I love games and puzzles dealing with words and language. We were sitting in the studio talking about things that make some words unique and we came up with a bit of a stumper. We came close to the correct answer but came up one letter short. The question: what one syllable word has the most letters?
3 weeks ago I came across a public service announcement that mentioned serving Sloppy Joes and was wondering where the idea for Sloppy Joes came from. The first theory is was a restaurant in Iowa that served a loose ground beef sandwich with ketchup or tomato sauce and spices on two slices of bread in the 1920s.
