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DA 14 Asteroid Passing Within 17,000 Miles of Earth This Friday
February 11, 2013 This Friday, an asteroid known as DA 14, will pass very close to Earth, it’s expected to be within the orbit of the moon or 17,200 miles from earth. The moon is roughly 238,000 miles from Earth making DA 14’s is the closest passing of an asteroid ever recorded.
Indiana Remains #1 in College Basketball
February 11, 2013 It’s been over a month since we’ve had back to back weeks for a #1 in college basketball to stay #1, but Indiana did it this week.
NBA Star Jason Kidd Hits 12,000 Career Assists Mark
February 10, 2013 Jason Kidd of the New York Knicks recently hit the 12,000 assist mark in his NBA career. Kidd is in his 17th NBA season starting with the Dallas Mavericks in 1994 and playing three different times with the Mavericks. He has also played for the Phoenix Suns and New
Richard Moll, Bull Shannon in ‘Night Court’, Says No to Any Thoughts of a Reunion
February 8, 2013 "Night Court", the television series, ran from 1984 to 1992 and was one of the top rated comedy series in its time. It stared Harry Anderson as the judge and, among others, Richard Moll as the bailiff, Bull Shannon. I don’t know if the has been any talk about
February 8, 1922, the First Radio Installed in the White House
February 8, 2013 It’s a big day in White House history today, February 8, 1922, the day a radio was installed in the Presidential Mansion. President Warren Harding was in office at the time and he wanted the radio. In 1922, radio was the hottest new technology much like the internet is today. In the 1920's radio broadcasts where everything and anything they could get to fill air time. A lot of local radio stations had amateur talent perform while some of the larger stations broadcast news casts, weather reports, popular and classical music, a sort of a free for all radio industry.
Connecticut Couple Married 80 Years
February 7, 2013 John and Ann Betar of Fairfield, Conn., have been named as the longest married couple in the United States. They have been married for 80 years with five children, 14 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.
They met while growing up in Connecticut, but Ann’s father arranged for her to marry another man, so John and Ann eloped, which she now says was the right choice. The couple says they don’t like to give advice on how to stay married but they do say compromise and not holding a grudge goes a long way.
Pebbles + Bamm Bamm Rubble Married 20 Years Today
February 7, 2013 The modern Stone Age family, 'The Flintstones,' have been around for 50 years. Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their friends ‘The Rubbles’, Barney and Betty were the main characters along with the Flintstones dog, Dino. The Flintstones ran in ABC’s primetime lineup for six years, not bad for a cartoon.
Arkansas Couple Wins Lottery Twice in One Day
February 6, 2013 We all wish it would happen to us…win the lottery! Steven and Terry Weaver of Little Rock, Ark. are no different, so on their way to a long day of fishing they stopped to by a lottery ticket. As they fished that day they had no idea the lottery ticket they bought was a winner, so on the way home they stopped at the same store and bought another ticket
Mt. Dew Got Its Start as a Mixer For Hard Liquor
February 6, 2013
Mt. Dew, the popular soda from Pepsi, wasn’t a Pepsi product until 1964 when they bought the rights from the Tip Corporation. Pepsi used the campaign ‘Yahoo Mountain Dew…It’ll tickle your innards’. Brothers Ally and Barney Hartman bottled ‘Mountain Dew’ in the 1940’s, but it was mostly local and used to mix hard liquors. In the 1950’s the label changed featuring its makers signatures under the Mountain Dew on the label and featured a hillbilly named ‘Gran Pappy’.
Polar Bear Population 25,000 Strong + Growing
February 5, 2013 Experts have been saying for years that Global Warming was decimating the polar bear population at the Arctic Circle, but a surprising find in a new book, ‘Never Look a Polar Bear in the Eye’, shows there are more polar bears alive today than in the last 40 years.