We’re on day 2 of our 4 Forgotten Founding Fathers theme week! Today’s Founding Father is Robert Morris, who became known as the “Financier of the Revolution”. He became very wealthy as the partner in a shipping

It’s another theme week on the Wiki Corner! Since the 4th of July is this Friday, we’re doing a theme week on Founding Fathers…but not the ones you know! This week, we’re talking about Four Forgotten Founding

Today we’re wrapping up our Weird Roadside Attraction theme week with the World’s Only Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota! The outside of the Corn Palace is decorated with 7 giant murals made from corn and other

Q: 28% of people surveyed said this is their favorite part about going on vacation. What is it? A: Planning the vacation.

We’re on day 4 of our theme week on Weird Roadside Attractions! Today we’re talking about the Coral Castle, outside of Miami – also known as Florida’s Stonehenge! The grounds consist of over 1,000 tons of stone

We’re halfway through our theme week on Weird Roadside Attractions. If you find yourself driving through Connecticut, you can stop at the PEZ Visitor Center! Located next to the PEZ factory in Orange, Connecticut, the PEZ Visitor

This is the 2nd day of our theme week on Weird Roadside Attractions. Today’s roadside attraction is the 276-foot-tall, 2,400-year-old Chandelier Tree in California! The Chandelier tree is a coast redwood tree that has a 6′ wide

Is a road trip part of your summer travel plans? Perhaps you’ll encounter some of the Weird Roadside Attractions we’ll talk about this week on the Wiki Corner! If you find yourself driving through Detroit, you might

Today is the 50th anniversary of Jaws! In honor of that, today we’re talking about great white sharks. They’re found in every ocean and are notable for their size. Males are 11-13 feet long, while females are 15-16

It’s another Throwback Thursday, and this week our throwback year is 1983! That’s the year the TV show Webster premiered on ABC! It ran from September 16, 1983 to May 8, 1987 and starred Emmanuel Lewis, Alex Karras, and

On June 18, 1967, a soon-to-be-famous lineup that includes Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who, and the Grateful Dead closed out the final day of the Monterey Pop Festival. It was the first major rock festival in

When I was in Connecticut last week, one of the things we did was tour the Nathan Hale Homestead. Nathan Hale was an American Patriot, solider, and spy for the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. He

Last Wednesday, Brian Wilson died at the age of 82. He was a cofounder of The Beach Boys, which also included his 2 brothers, Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. Wilson

Yesterday, legendary musician Sly Stone died at the age of 82. He was the front man of Sly and the Family Stone, and played an important role in the development of funk, with his fusion of soul,

Donald Duck is 91 today! He made his debut on this day in 1934 in the cartoon The Wise Little Hen. He got his first starring role in the 1937 animated short Don Donald, which follows his adventures in

It’s National Yo-Yo Day! This day honors the late businessman Donald Duncan’s birthday, who helped popularize the toy here in America. Yo-yos have been around for a really long time. There’s proof it existed in 440 BC,

Happy Throwback Thursday! Today we’re featuring the year 1985, which is when The Golden Girls premiered on NBC! It starred Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, most of whom had worked together before. Arthur and McClanahan

On this day in 1977, JVC introduced the VHS tape at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago. Its main competitor was Sony’s Betamax, which had been introduced a year earlier. Betamax cassettes were smaller and had better

Happy World Bicycle Day! The first bicycle was known as the Dandy Horse, and was invented in Germany in 1817. It was made almost entirely of wood and weighed 48 pounds. It also had no pedals –

On Friday, actress Loretta Swit died at the age of 87. She was, of course, best known for playing Major Margaret “Hot Lips” Houlihan on M*A*S*H from 1972 to 1983. She took over the role from Sally

On this day in 1922, the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated. Former President William Howard Taft, who was serving as chief justice of the Supreme Court, presented the monument to President Warren G. Harding, who accepted it on