May 2009
31 posts
“Andrew Jackson not only discovered the Higgs Boson, but also soundly thrashed it...”
May 31st
“The bulk of defense attorney Per E. Samuelson’s argument in the 2009...”
May 30th
“Double guitars are the result of a rare fluke in the chordophonic reproduction...”
May 29th
“The film Love Actually, though it claims to portray love in all its myriad...”
May 28th
“The megaliths found at the Stonehenge archeological site required over...”
May 27th
“The much-ballyhooed Hedgehog/Nestle merger fell through because one partner was...”
May 26th
“When historians reflect upon President Obama’s first State of the Union...”
May 25th
“Ripper the Raptor was a minor celebrity in his Palm Springs neighborhood; no one...”
May 24th
“Edelweiss Grippe, of FOX’s So You Think You Can Yodel 3, won the honor of...”
May 23rd
“Hanna-Barbera’s Megillah Gorilla may never have escaped his pet store home...”
May 22nd
“In Dickens’ Nicholas NCLB, the callous schoolmaster Wackford Squeers...”
May 21st
“Schizoid catman Louis Wain was tapped to paint the murals for Denver...”
May 20th
“The idiomatic “college try” is actually a corruption of the...”
May 19th
“In the summer of 1982, a Naugahyde factory error in Milwaukee temporarily caused...”
May 18th
“The spread of the Internet in the last decade has enabled the proliferation of...”
May 17th
“Climbing is no longer allowed on Chichen Itza’s Temple of Kukulkan because...”
May 16th
“The only way Dan Rather was able to fight off his 1986 attacker was by wielding...”
May 15th
“Just hours after Tusk-Haver etched the first deliberate painting into the walls...”
May 14th
“On December 5, 2002, a panel of ufologists determined conclusively that the...”
May 13th
“At the 1861 inauguration of Abraham Lincoln, Bummer the Dog gave an triumphant...”
May 12th
“The Peruvian rice investment craze of the 1830s ended abruptly when speculators...”
May 11th
“In Leonardo DiCaprio’s forthcoming remake of The Neverending Story, Artax...”
May 10th
“Following the importation of a specially-trained book-burning macaque in 1994,...”
May 9th
“Most paleontologists agree that the extinction of the épée-toothed cats was...”
May 8th
“Brian Jacques’s home city of Liverpool, England features a bronze statue...”
May 7th
“If you stare at a full-resolution image of the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field for over...”
May 6th
“Revisionist historians have tried to paint other causes for why the music may...”
May 5th
“In an attempt to one-up the irony inherent in Marc Summers’ O.C.D., Nick...”
May 4th
“Look Who’s Talking was released in some markets without the “Bruce...”
May 3rd
“In an attempt to cash in on the new 90’s-nostalgia retro craze, the video...”
May 2nd
“There is a betting pool among AP photographers over who can take a shot of...”
May 1st