3 weeks ago It was pretty much standard in almost every American industry back in the early 1900’s – you’d work six days a week and often it was 10 hours a day. But it was the Ford Motor Company that changed all of that on this date in 1926.
3 weeks ago We see them all the time – those warning labels on products that seem only an idiot wouldn't know. With some of them you can't help but laugh.
3 weeks ago It already is New York City’s tallest building. It took that title a year ago, but today the replacement for the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center becomes the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere. Construction crews this morning will lift the final two sections of a 408-foot spire to the top to raise the height of One World Trade Center to 1,776 feet.
4 weeks ago I guess it depends on how you define an accident. But when you have incompetent people doing something they have no business doing it can lead to huge consequences and that’s what happened at the Chernobyl Nuclear Generating plant in what was then the Soviet Union. It led to the world’s worst nuclear power plant disaster.
4 weeks ago Conceived in the 1940’s, designed in the 1970’s, built in the 1980’s, it was in April of 1990 that the Hubble telescope was placed into orbit by the crew of the space shuttle Discovery. A major problem during its design was that the lenses were incorrectly calculated, so the first images were blurry. A repair mission three years later basically outfitted Hubble with glasses.
4 weeks ago Clay and I were talking about weeds the other day. For him and I, the frustration is trying to keep them out of the garden and lawn. It’s a constant battle. Some people don’t even bother trying to kill them on their lawn. They just figure – they’re green – good enough.
4 weeks ago With all of the junk mail we get these days can you imagine having to pay for it? Back in the days before stamps were invented it wasn’t the sender, but the receiver of a letter who paid for it. But back then people really sent letters and that’s usually the only thing you would get in the mail. Bills and junk mail came much later.
4 weeks ago There are three things that make you sweat. You sweat when you get overheated, you sweat when you exert yourself and you sweat when you’re nervous or under stress. Of the three, sweat from stress stinks the most.
5 weeks ago He wanted to see a new family car that any family could afford because at that time only the wealthy could afford them. The year was 1933 and he made that statement at the Berlin, Germany Auto Show. It was a short time later when he got together with Ferdinand Porche who had the same vision.
5 weeks ago If you like bacon you’re gonna love this. A Texas woman who just celebrated her 105th birthday says bacon is the secret to her long life. Pearl Cantrell lives near Abilene, Texas and says she loves bacon and eats it everyday.
April 17, 2013 Worldwide some 200 million people buy or sell 1 billion items eBay every year, trading $2,000 worth of goods every second. More than a million people trade on eBay as a full-time job. And while the eBay auctions are best known for finding bargains there also have been some very expensive items sold on eBay
April 16, 2013 It’s annually a festive event – New England’s most widely viewed sporting event with interest all over the world and it was marred by Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon resulting in dozens of injuries and some fatalities. It brings tens of thousands of visitors to the Boston area and someone or a group of people used it to carry out whatever sick agenda they have.
