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This is one of those days where nothing seemed to match the history of the day. So, I went searching for something that would be easy to make, yet give you the feeling that with the first drink, you accomplished the flavor you were looking for to impress your friends. I think I’ve found the […]
In 1957, the Soviet Union decided it was time to see how a living animal could handle the travel to space. Laika, the space dog got the call to travel on the Sputnik II. Sadly, Laika died in orbit. In 2002, Jake Burger at Townhouse, Leeds, England came up with this drink in honor of […]
Freedom of speach is one right the citizens of the United States have. It is our given right, along with owning a gun, that differs us from other powerful governments around the world. A big advocate on freedom of speach celebrates a birthday today. He has learned how to take freedom of speech and freedom […]
Happy Halloween! This is eve of All Saints Day, when the ghosts and goblins celebrate and all the good kiddies are given a treat over a trick. This is a day to dress as someone, or something, different without getting strange stares. This is also the time to get something different to enjoy in regards […]
In what would be the day that would signal the coming of the ten year Great Depression, on this date in 1929, the New York Stock Exchange crashed. This would cause mayhem in the streets and would be the beginning of many years of Depression that would take many years to overcome in this country. […]
On this date in 1919, the world of the liquor industry in this country was about to come to an end. The senate would pass the law, would be vetoed by President Woodrow Wilson, then would be passed again by the senate within a twenty-four period. The National Prohibition Act, the Eighteenth Amendment of the […]
Everyone should have known that this was going to happen one day. After eight years of positives in the technical markets, home pricing going up double digits, and unemployment so low that people would do a double-take on the numbers, the sign of the inevitable showed us its ugly head for the first time in […]
The name of the drink of the day is the predecessor of the history we’ll be talking about. However, it’s something that has such a strong history, I felt it was a good place to talk about it. Today marks the anniversary of when nylon stockings went on the market. Silk stockings just weren’t able […]
Johnny Carson, along with sidekick Ed McMahon, graced us with their humor and quick wit for thirty years on the Tonight Show. With their guests and some of the personalities they would come up with, along with some skits from up-and-coming comics, this show was a must see if you were having a hard time […]
Thomas Edison brought a lot of new things to light for us (pun intended), but the one the most can say shines through the most is inventing a working model of the incandescent light bulb. On this date, in 1879, after many attempts to come up with a working model that wouldn’t burn out too […]
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