Happy birthday, Wilhelm Grimm!
Wilhelm Grimm, one half of the “Brothers Grimm,” was born on this date in 1786 — that’s 240 years ago. And while Wilhelm (and his brother Jacob) didn’t actually create…
100 Famous Pisces Throughout History
I’m not sure I’ll be able to do the zodiac posts every month but this is the fourth one overall. So eventually we’ll get the whole lot. (And then probably…
Celebrity deaths from January 2026
I had to stop doing daily obituary updates here on the website because I’ve gotten to the point where I’m doing as many as five or six a day and…
The Space Shuttle disaster — 40 years later
For those of us of a certain age (old), we remember sitting in school on the morning of January 28, 1986 watching the Space Shuttle Challenger take off into the…
100 Famous Aquariuses Throughout History
Personally, I’ve never been big on Zodiac signs, horoscopes and whatnot. But a couple years ago, my then-girlfriend (now-wife) suggested I do a compilation video on people who share a…
10 Facts about Martin Luther King Jr.
While MLK Day isn’t until Monday, his birthday would have been today. So I whipped up a quick video of 10 facts about Martin Luther King Jr. Hopefully there’s a…
13 Facts About Bob Denver
I always liked Gilligan’s Island. And, of course, you can’t NOT like Gilligan himself — Bob Denver. So here’s a video with 13 facts about him.
John DeLorean: Visionary or Villain
A million years ago, when I was a young one, I loved two cars: the Lamborghini Countach LP-5000S and the DeLorean DMC-12. Today would have been John DeLorean’s birthday so…
A.A. Milne’s Christmas poem
A.A. Milne, the author behind Winnie the Pooh, wrote a Christmas poem as part of his collection of short stories entitled “Now We Are Six.” The Christmas Poem, “King John’s…
How about A Christmas Carol?
Everyone knows Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol,” right? I’ve seen numerous versions of the movie. From the 1951 “Scrooge” with Alastair Sim to the Muppet Christmas Carol, Scrooged and even…