Juneteenth – Ashton Villa beginnings

The roots of the Juneteenth celebrations are in an Italianate home in Galveston, Texas – Ashton Villa.

Saint Patrick Drove O’Bama Clan out of Ireland

There are three world famous Saints. We have St. Valentine (of love and massacre fame), St. Nicholas (of Santa Claus fame) and St. Patrick who is popular for many reasons.

Valentines Day – The awful truth

If you are a member of The Restored Church of God and you want want to have some fun on Valentines Day, you had better go Catholic for a day or so.

Rupert Murdoch: ‘God made me do it’ – God arrested

Rupert Murdoch, feeling the heat, turns another one of his employees over to the police. God arrested.

Thanksgiving Football Results from 1920

Pro football on Thanksgiving has been going strong for a century.

Plymouth, England – What a mother of a city

[by Holte Ender] Plymouth, England, the mother of many Plymouth’s around the world will play it’s part during Thanksgiving celebrations this week.

Guy Fawkes – Gunpowder, treason and plot . .

There will be fireworks in the UK this week, as they celebrate 405th anniversary of the gunpowder plot to blow up Parliament.

Django Reinhardt – King of Gypsy Jazz

A personal favorite, Django Reinhardt would be 101 years-old today. He has been dead for sixty years, his music lives on.

Jean Paul Marat and “Occupy Wall Street”

Timeless words written in the 18th century by radical French journalist and visionary, Jean-Paul Marat. They take on a new significance in light of the state of our nation and the Occupy Wall Street protests.

Obama doing better in Texas than in 2008

President Barack Obama is behind in a Texas poll to Rick Perry. But not by as much as he was to John McCain in 2008.

Italian scientists on trial for manslaughter – Did not predict 2009 earthquake

One of the homes of modern science is losing its marbles. Putting scientists on trial for not predicting a killer earthquake.

200 copperhead snake bites in Atlanta this year

Copperhead snakes can put you in hospital. Be careful around the wood or brush pile in your yard. Watch the video so you can identify this common snake.

A chance to quit your day job

Online video is the new TV and it is beginning to provide genuine income for enthusiastic amateurs.

The International Vegemite Incident

This is how wars are started, Australian Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd, was traveling to New York. U.S. authorities wanted confiscate his breakfast spread.