BY: James Whitbrook When a franchise is around for four decades, it can get impossibly unwieldy to try and grasp its lore — and Star Wars canon is no exception. Here’s a guide to the origins of Star Wars Canon, the rise and fall of one of the most prominent Expanded Universes in fiction, and where […]
1969 The Amazin’ Mets
Article from www.thisgreatgame.com In the early 1960s, President John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. A lot of people thought he was overreaching. Had the President instead said that the hopeless, lovably pathetic New York Mets would win the World Series by decade’s end, they […]
Deadline Looms for Historic Ocean Liner’s Move to Brooklyn
by Evan Bindelglass (writing for Curbed) What might be the greatest ocean liner in American history has only weeks left before it will likely have to be sold for scrap. The SS United States sailed back and forth from New York to Europe from 1952 to 1969, during which time she set the record for fastest […]
America’s Best Cities for Fall Travel
by Katrina Brown Hunt for Travel and Leisure Even bears prefer Chicago during the autumn. “It’s cooler, the trees on Michigan Avenue are turning colors, and it’s a great time to visit Brookfield and Lincoln Park zoos,” says Lillian Polz, the head of a Chicago marketing firm. “The animals that were lethargic during the summer—like […]
A Brief History of Campaign Mudslinging, From 1796 to Today
BY JOHNNY GOODTIMES We love to gripe about today’s negative campaigns, but presidential elections have always been dirty, dating back to the 18th century. It all began in 1796, when Alexander Hamilton, writing under the pen name “Phocion,” attacked Thomas Jefferson on the pages in Gazette of the United States, a federalist paper in Philadelphia. Newspapers […]
Baseball in America: A History
The sport that evokes more nostalgia among Americans than any other is baseball. So many people play the game as children (or play its close relative, softball) that it has become known as “the national pastime.” It is also a democratic game. Unlike football and basketball, baseball can be played well by people of average […]
The Rise of the Zombies
Vampires have been popular figures in horror since Bram Stoker wrote Dracula in 1897. The root of werewolf folklore can be traced all the way back to the ancient Greeks. Zombies, in their current form, however, have only shuffled their stiff-legged corpses onto the silver screen in the last few decades. Where did the zombie […]
Following Windows 10 event, the Apple-Microsoft slugfest is on
BY Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY At its product announcement in New York City, Microsoft unveiled its new line of products including several new phones and the first ever Microsoft laptop. Ed Baig reports. Microsoft and Apple are ancient tech adversaries, dating back to when Bill Gates andSteve Jobs ran the companies. Now that we’re in […]
Takei makes emotional trek to Broadway
By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY NEW YORK — In 2009, Tony Award-winning singer/actress Lea Salonga met with actor and activist George Takei at his home in Los Angeles. Takei wanted Salonga to play a role in a new stage musical he was developing, inspired by his family’s time in Japanese-American internment camps duringWorld War II. “That […]
How do blue whales get so big? By being picky eaters, say scientists.
A study of blue whales suggests that these giant marine mammals are not the indiscriminate grazers we thought they were. By Will Dunham, Reuters The blue whale is the largest creature on Earth and perhaps the biggest that ever lived, so it is no surprise it has a huge appetite. But the strategies this behemoth […]
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