May 2009
31 posts
“Andrew Jackson not only discovered the Higgs Boson, but also soundly thrashed it...”
“The bulk of defense attorney Per E. Samuelson’s argument in the 2009...”
“Double guitars are the result of a rare fluke in the chordophonic reproduction...”
“The film Love Actually, though it claims to portray love in all its myriad...”
“The megaliths found at the Stonehenge archeological site required over...”
“The much-ballyhooed Hedgehog/Nestle merger fell through because one partner was...”
“When historians reflect upon President Obama’s first State of the Union...”
“Ripper the Raptor was a minor celebrity in his Palm Springs neighborhood; no one...”
“Edelweiss Grippe, of FOX’s So You Think You Can Yodel 3, won the honor of...”
“Hanna-Barbera’s Megillah Gorilla may never have escaped his pet store home...”
“In Dickens’ Nicholas NCLB, the callous schoolmaster Wackford Squeers...”
“Schizoid catman Louis Wain was tapped to paint the murals for Denver...”
“The idiomatic “college try” is actually a corruption of the...”
“In the summer of 1982, a Naugahyde factory error in Milwaukee temporarily caused...”
“The spread of the Internet in the last decade has enabled the proliferation of...”
“Climbing is no longer allowed on Chichen Itza’s Temple of Kukulkan because...”
“The only way Dan Rather was able to fight off his 1986 attacker was by wielding...”
“Just hours after Tusk-Haver etched the first deliberate painting into the walls...”
“On December 5, 2002, a panel of ufologists determined conclusively that the...”
“At the 1861 inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, Bummer the Dog gave an triumphant...”
“The Peruvian rice investment craze of the 1830s ended abruptly when speculators...”
“In Leonardo DiCaprio’s forthcoming remake of The Neverending Story, Artax...”
“Following the importation of a specially-trained book-burning macaque in 1994,...”
“Most paleontologists agree that the extinction of the épée-toothed cats was...”
“Brian Jacques’s home city of Liverpool, England features a bronze statue...”
“If you stare at a full-resolution image of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field for over...”
“Revisionist historians have tried to paint other causes for why the music may...”
“In an attempt to one-up the irony inherent in Marc Summers’ O.C.D., Nick...”
“Look Who’s Talking was released in some markets without the “Bruce...”
“In an attempt to cash in on the new 90’s-nostalgia retro craze, the video...”
“There is a betting pool among AP photographers over who can take a shot of...”