- Ash Wednesday: Should Maple Bats Be Alllowed In The Major Leagues
The traditional baseball bat is made from the wood of the ash tree. When he shattered the home run record, Barry Bonds swung a bat made of maple which is harder and has a tighter, straighter grain. As a result, pro players started switching...
- Blame Kenneth Arnold For The "flying Saucer"
"The Man Who Introduced the World to Flying Saucers" Kenneth Arnold saw something, said something, and ushered in the UFO-industrial complex. by Megan Garber June 15th 2014 The Atlantic The plan was to launch a flying saucer. NASA's supersonic...
- Ufoologist Josef Allen Hynek
Have you noticed that UFO sitings have diminished. The Writer's Almanac wrote... ...today is the birthday of astrophysicist and "ufologist" Josef Allen Hynek, born in Chicago in 1910. He's best known for his work with a series of government...
- Martian Invasion...1953 Style
In 1953 William Cameron Menzies gave us the chilling Invaders From Mars [20th Century Fox]. During a thunderstorm, a young boy witnesses the landing of a flying saucer in a nearby field. No one will believe the boy's wild tale, and...
- Deceased--[walter] Fred Morrison
[Walter] Fred Morrison January 23rd, 1920 – February 9th, 2010 "Fred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, dies at age 90" by Doug Stanglin February 12th, 2009 USA TODAY Fred Morrison, inventor of the Frisbee, has died at his home in Utah at the age...