On this day in 1972, NASA launched Pioneer 10 from Cape Canaveral, its primary mission to gather information on the planet Jupiter. Carried on a three-stage Atlas-Centaur rocket, the nine-foot […]

On this day in 1790, Congress authorized the first official U.S. census. Five months later, under the authority of Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, 17 federal marshals, aided by 200 […]

On this day in 1996, the “Siege of Sarajevo” was officially terminated after nearly four years of constant attack. It became the longest siege in the history of modern warfare. […]

On this day in 1983, the final episode of M*A*S*H aired, becoming the most-watched television episode in U.S. history. The  2½ hour program, entitled “Goodbye, Farewell and Amen,” drew in […]

On this day in 1900, the Bayer Company patented acetylsalicylic acid, which the world came to know as aspirin. The invention of this wonder drug actually occurred 47 years earlier […]

On this day in 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba, an island off the northwestern coast of Italy. Exiled there in May 1814, the French emperor was permitted to retain […]

“This could be the beginning of the end for the human race! For what men first thought were meteors or the often-ridiculed flying saucers are, in reality, the flaming vanguard […]

A few days ago – at the ungodly hour of 4:15 am – I woke up. It wasn’t to go to the bathroom, although at my age, you couldn’t be […]

I’ve lost my gym membership card again. This is, like, the  87th time. I’ve looked for it everywhere – under my car seats, on my office desk, in the pockets […]

The first time I saw it, I fell in love with the Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival at University Christian Church in Ft. Worth, TX. It’s a Renaissance-style worship service with […]