As 2020 comes to a close, we will list the top 8 biggest mistakes of 2020. Why 8? Given 2020 is well 2020, I felt its only right to only do a weird number like 8 to cap off this odd year. 8: Washington Football Team cutting Dwayne Haskins The Washington Football team drafted Haskins, […]
Month: December 2020
The evolution of Christmas
Jesus Christ wasn’t born on December 25th. Sorry if I bursted anyone’s bubble with that news. Shepard’s would not have been out in their fields in the middle of winter. Why do we celebrate this day as the birth of Christ? It’s complicated, but I will walk you through the evolution of Christmas. The middle […]
Forgotten: Tower Records
The first Tower Records was opened in 1960 in Sacramento, California, by Russell Solomon. The store was named after his father’s drugstore, which shared a building and name with the Tower Theatre. Tower expanded to San Francisco in 1967, then to Los Angeles on Sunset Blvd in 1971. At the Sunset location, you might find […]
The saga of Gelya
Ardan Markizova was the People’s Commissar for Agriculture of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Province in the U.S.S.R in the 1930s. He took his daughter Engelsina Sergeyevna Markizova (Gelya) to a meeting at the Kremlin with Joseph Stalin in 1936. What occurred at the meeting would change Gelya and her family’s life for better and for worse. […]
Got Swill Milk?
I want to take you back to the United States in the 1850s. It was a time frame where the government didn’t regulate or provide standards for food quality. Vaccines and medical progress was nowhere near the levels we have today. Diseases, like Cholera and Typhoid, were a part of everyday life back then. When […]
