A "bump" of this post from over a yr. ago to note the anniversary of the JFK assassination. Another webcam I frequently visit ...

On this day in history: A part-time construction worker visits the studios of Chess Records and cuts his first record, a souped-up version...

The Day the Music Died: Rock’s Great Tragedy Referenced in Don McLean's American Pie   Need the meaning of the lyrics? They ha...

December 7, 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor The attack on Pearl Harbor was a pre-emptive military strike on the United States Pacific F...

The drinking straw was developed by the Egyptians in order to taste beer without removing the fermenting ingredients that floated on top of...

Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, never phoned his wife or his mother.  Why? Answer between (    ) below. ( They we...

The only known video recording of Mark Twain.

Today in history: Glenn Miller recorded "Chattanooga Choo Choo", 1941. Dorothy Dandridge / Nicholas Brothers

Today in history: The Broadway musical Hair debuted in 1968; the movie was released in 1979. Several of the soundtrack songs hit the cha...

Today in history:  Manfred von Richthofen aka "The Red Baron" was shot down and killed near Amiens on 21 April 1918. Snoo...

I knew most of these, but the most egregious "mistake" is in U-571 .

Louis Braille was only 15 when he devised his raised-dot writing system for the blind. Braille, who lost his sight at the age of three, s...

In 1882, Chester A. Arthur , the 21st President of the United States, raised money to redecorate the White House by auctioning off presiden...

Trailer for the classic movie, The Longest Day . One of my favorite war movies, it's chock-full of stars including Richard Burton, Sea...

Did you know President Lincoln's dog Fido was "assassinated" by a drunk in Springfield, IL. just a year after Lincoln was sho...

There have been quite a few U.S. Presidents with the same first name; there have been three Georges: Washington, H.W. Bush and W. Bush. ...

El Degüello is the "No Quarter" song played by Santa Ana's troops during the start of the siege of the Alamo El Degüello m...

One of my favorite movies. The movie takes place around the time I was born, but I can identify with the characters growing up in a small ...

July 16, 1945 was the first detonation of a nuclear device, code named Trinity . "Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds....

I saw an article earlier about how today is the anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler by suicide in his bunker in 1945. I'm sure i...