The Green Bay Packers
The National Football League is big business. It earns more money than any other professional sports league in the world. All of the NFL teams are own by billionaires or consortiums of multi-millionai...
28 Tammi 202114min
Cosmos 954
According to the old adage, what goes up must come down. Unless you are talking about a satellite, which can go up and never come down. However, sometimes satellites do come down. When they are not ex...
27 Tammi 20217min
Milankovitch Cycles
The Earth takes a year to go around the sun, and a day to turn on its axis. It is tilted 23.5 degrees which is what causes the seasons. All of these facts which you learned in school are true, but the...
26 Tammi 20219min
Project MK ULTRA
After the end of World War II, the newly created Central Intelligence Agency investigated anything and everything which could give the US an advantage in the Cold War. They looked into anything and ev...
25 Tammi 20219min
The Year of The Five Emperors
Every so often, the series Dr. Who would have a special episode where multiple versions of the time-traveling Doctor would appear on the same episode. I think they probably ripped the idea off from th...
24 Tammi 20219min
The Year of the Four Emperors
As long as the Roman empire lasted, they never created a set method of choosing successors to emperors. This inability to have an idea of who would be next in line caused numbers problems during the h...
23 Tammi 202110min
The Oxford English Dictionary
In 1844, the Philological Society of London began investigating the creation of a new English dictionary. This initial foray would lead to a dictionary that would be unlike any other dictionary ever c...
22 Tammi 202112min
Exclaves and Enclaves
Normally, if a foreign country has you totally surrounded, that isn’t a good thing. However, in some parts of the world, it is a normal, everyday occurrence. Due to historical quirks in drawing maps, ...
21 Tammi 202110min
